Example sentences of "why do we not " in BNC.

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1 Why did we not just stop and camp ?
2 The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) .
3 Why did we not buy another younger centre half ?
4 Why did we not get but I wan na do that part !
5 For example , why do we not nowadays extensively see remedies causing ‘ more harm the larger the dose ’ ? after all the average dose from a tablet used today is approximately 50 times the dose of Hahnemann 's small granule .
6 Instead of agonising over an indefinable concept of pain , why do we not simply study the individual 's efforts to stabilise its internal environment and then aid it or , at least , not intrude on those efforts without good reason ?
7 Why do we not insist that presuppositions be proved too ?
8 Why do we not query everything , even the act of querying itself ?
9 So why do we not see more Killies in dealers ' tanks ?
10 Why do we not add them to the list of axioms given above ?
11 Why do we not take yesterday as the causal circumstance for last night ?
12 Why do we not offer discounts for full payment ?
13 Why do we not throw off this hangover of socialism and instead celebrate a free enterprise day , a British export day or , better still , a low taxation day ?
14 Why do we not hear of the Government 's estimates , even of their own proposals , never mind the MacSharry proposals ?
15 Why do we not start talking about some of our successes ?
16 If the purpose is to protect the individual , why do we not sign the European social charter , as every other country is prepared to do ?
17 Why do we not have his intellectual contribution to this debate ?
18 Why do we not mimic the professionals or their caddies in other areas of the game ?
19 Why do we not say that each of the syllables ‘ is ’ and ‘ it ’ carries a level tone ?
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