Example sentences of "why could not [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why could n't they go back to small strategy meetings ? |
| 2 | The Middle East is still suffering from the consequences of Jewish beastliness ( why could n't they have waited to be attacked first , like gents ? ) , including what someone euphemistically described as the ‘ re-unification ’ of Jerusalem . |
| 3 | Damn , damn , damn that bloody newspaper , why could n't they give people five minutes to discuss something important without destroying everything with their hysteria and filthy ridicule ? |
| 4 | Why could n't they get down to the important stuff right away ? |
| 5 | Why could n't they just leave well alone and let pupils concentrate on the three Rs ? |
| 6 | Why could n't they be with him ? |
| 7 | Why could n't they see it coming ? |
| 8 | I 've not , there 's a conviction that er if management were making money , then why could n't they get a reasonable increase in pay . |
| 9 | You know we we 've heard a lot about this leaf bud structure and what to replace it with but since this is Nottingham and this centre of lace why could n't they put something there like a loom or something sculptured to look like a loom ? |
| 10 | Why could n't they 've made it the Soton game ? ? |
| 11 | Why could n't they just understand that she did n't want to be married and settled with umpteen kids and a mortgage up to the sky and no life to call her own ? |
| 12 | ‘ Even the recent drop begs the question if they can do all this in a month or two , why could n't they have done it before . ’ |
| 13 | but my argument was why could n't they have done that last Friday ? |
| 14 | a lot of it is er propaganda by the Conservative if , if they were gon na get it right , why could n't they get it right in the thirteen years that they 've been in power ? |
| 15 | Why could n't they get |
| 16 | Why could n't they come on Friday ? |
| 17 | Why could n't they do it in the summer when it 's warm ? |
| 18 | Why could n't they create , improve the agricultural sector by |
| 19 | ( Why could n't we have done it properly ? ) |
| 20 | Why could n't we see the pieces ? ? ? |
| 21 | Comments included ‘ Scott helped me with the photocopying ’ , ‘ Can we stay in the groups because I really like working with Bobby ? ’ and ‘ Why could n't we stay all day ? ’ |
| 22 | Why could n't we have stayed there ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Why could n't we fall in love , Alex ? |
| 24 | ‘ It 's all right for them , why could n't it have been their child who died ? ’ |
| 25 | If McBride had been the problem in ‘ 84 , why could n't it be Doyle in ‘ 86 ? |
| 26 | If he had to be shifted to Ireland , why could n't it have been Dublin where he 'd at least have been nearer to Elizabeth and might have managed to hop over to England more often . |
| 27 | She smothered a sigh ; why could n't it be straightforward ? |
| 28 | Why could n't it have gone right ? |
| 29 | Why could n't it have been a total stranger ? |
| 30 | But just to add to the usual conspiracy theories — why could n't it be repeated at the end of the game — surely it was one of the key points of the game . |