Example sentences of "could n't [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why could n't they 've made it the Soton game ? ? |
| 2 | Why could n't they do it in the summer when it 's warm ? |
| 3 | Could n't they stop being so right on ? |
| 4 | Why could n't they go back to small strategy meetings ? |
| 5 | I mean they could could n't they sponsor us to do it or something ? |
| 6 | Why could n't they create , improve the agricultural sector by |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | Could n't they unreconstruct themselves and go back to being pigs ? |
| 9 | No , but , could n't they write it all down ? |
| 10 | When I told them that he was a chemist , one boy asked , ‘ Could n't they get a proper teacher , then ? ’ |
| 11 | Why could n't they get down to the important stuff right away ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Why could n't they get |
| 15 | Could n't they have waited just another couple of weeks until he had officially retired at the end of the month ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Could n't they have waited a bit longer after the expense of Christmas ? |
| 18 | I rue the day these wretched Titfords ever came to live down here — could n't they have stayed over in Wilmington Square ? |
| 19 | ‘ Could n't they have been secretly shot ? ’ |
| 20 | Could n't they have done something ? |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | but my argument was why could n't they have done that last Friday ? |
| 23 | However through this radicalization of land reform the Party had learnt valuable lessons and that was the impossibility of egalitarianism with the demands of middle peasants which could n't they conflicted one another . |
| 24 | Could n't they see how it had to be nourished ? |
| 25 | Could n't they see that he was simply dying for want of a word from Kee , that not seeing her or being able to write or talk to her was killing him , and that nothing else mattered ? |
| 26 | Why could n't they see it coming ? |
| 27 | Surely she could n't really be dead ; could n't they see that ? |
| 28 | Why could n't they come on Friday ? |
| 29 | Could n't they reconstruct themselves and go back to being pigs ? |
| 30 | 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 ? |