Example sentences of "why do [not/n't] they " in BNC.
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| 31 | And you could quite rightly think , Why do n't they take their turn ? |
| 32 | ‘ Why do n't they come from the lighthouse to save us ? ’ shouted James Kelly . |
| 33 | If programmers need all that RAM why do n't they use Expanded or Extended memory so that they can leave a fair slice of the base memory to the system ? |
| 34 | But the point is , if you tell them you 're leaving , why do n't they come and board the windows up and save all this money ? |
| 35 | And if they want more — of whatever it is — why do n't they tell us ? ’ |
| 36 | ‘ But why do n't they do something ? ’ |
| 37 | Why do n't they spend it here ? |
| 38 | If they can afford to go there , then why do n't they , you know , if you have two pints in there I mean it 's , it 's a meal really , cos I , I could give these kids a meal for about a one pound , one pound fifty . |
| 39 | If social anthropologists are sincere when they say that their subject is a kind of micro-sociology and when they proclaim that they no longer feel themselves to be members of a culture/society which is intrinsically " superior " to that of the people they are studying , why do n't they study themselves ? |
| 40 | Or , to put the matter more honestly , thought Dorothea Gilberd , tearing her glance from Tom Tedder , why do n't they prescribe books that Burleigh School has already got copies of ? |
| 41 | ’ But why do n't they just do that ? ’ |
| 42 | So why do n't they admit it ? |
| 43 | So why do n't they ? |
| 44 | If they have no rice why do n't they eat a new paradigm ? asked the developmentalists at their seminars as they loaded their plates at the restaurant buffets in their five-star hotels . |
| 45 | So I say , if it 's good for one pensioner to that , why do n't they allow other pensioners to pay it ? |
| 46 | ‘ Why do n't they give us parachutes , for God 's sake ? |
| 47 | ‘ Why do n't they revolt ? ’ |
| 48 | So all these a lot of these firms are not up to the job why do why do n't you sack them people are not up to the job why do n't they get sacked ? |
| 49 | They could walk , why do n't they walk ? |
| 50 | Moreover , why do n't they drown ? |
| 51 | But why do n't they want the stable lads to know what weights ? |
| 52 | What about you know , if , if someone is relatively well educated , and they come from an urban , urban rural area , why do n't they get a job in the rural area using those qualifications ? |
| 53 | i also missed buying a programme — question : why do n't they sell programmes after the match as well so that people who arrived late can still buy one without having to find the club shop ? |
| 54 | If bats are capable of boosting their sampling rates to 200 pulses per second , why do n't they keep this up all the time ? |
| 55 | Since they evidently have a rate control " knob " on their " stroboscope " , why do n't they turn it permanently to maximum , thereby keeping their perception of the world at its most acute , all the time , to meet any emergency ? |
| 56 | Like , when they all went off and I thought well I do n't see , why do n't they just stop it . |
| 57 | Three months on I er I 'm even mor angry , appalled and disgusted at the hypocrisy of the members opposite because , if they really care about the unemployed , why do n't they support this Scheme ? |
| 58 | Why do n't they , would n't it be easier |
| 59 | I have consistently said why do n't they allow er , councils to spend the receipts from council houses on building new houses , and I 've never been impressed with the replies nor the reasons . |
| 60 | Now if the Government wish to restrict the capital borrowing that we can make , which they do anyway , why do they need to restrict , also , what we do with the results of any spending , why do n't they allow us to spend it perhaps , on the roads , that Mr would like to see built ? |