Example sentences of "why [verb] [adv] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do , clearly , do n't I. Then why do n't I like it ? ) |
| 2 | Why did n't I go home to my own country taking with me the sheet which bore the stains of my virginity . |
| 3 | Fabian grumbles : ‘ Ah , why did n't I just go to Hungary as well … |
| 4 | ‘ Why did n't I find your house ? ’ |
| 5 | Why did n't I think of it before ! ’ |
| 6 | Now , the bereaved person may feel , ‘ Why did n't I hold my tongue ? |
| 7 | What are tragic to behold are women … who suddenly do a volte face at fifty and say , ‘ Why did n't I have children ? ' ’ … |
| 8 | Why did n't I think of it ? |
| 9 | So why did n't I tell you ? |
| 10 | Why did n't I steal some ? |
| 11 | And when I came across people who told me I must be , at best , gullible to believe in metaphysics ( and why did n't I rejoin their random , meaningless reality ? ) , then I had invited them into my world . |
| 12 | Why did n't I pick him up on that ? |
| 13 | ‘ Now why did n't I think of that ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Then someone asked why did n't I start an organisation selling extraordinary buildings ? |
| 15 | ‘ Why did n't I meet them ? ’ |
| 16 | Of course , why did n't I think of that ? ’ |
| 17 | Of course , why did n't I think of that ? ’ she said sarcastically . |
| 18 | " Why did n't I put Silver there ? " |
| 19 | The girl on duty said no , she was sure not , why did n't I try the music shop . |
| 20 | Why did n't I think of it ? |
| 21 | ‘ When she came to me , why did n't I get somebody to identify her ? ’ |
| 22 | Why did n't I think of it before ? ’ |
| 23 | Why did n't I think before I began work ? |
| 24 | Why did n't I go straight to the Star Council ? ’ |
| 25 | Why did n't I think of it ? ’ |
| 26 | Why did n't I think of that ? |
| 27 | Sometimes they come back from their haunts very cross , and say , " If only I 'd known about that , " or " Why did n't I think of that ? |
| 28 | Why did n't I think of that … |
| 29 | And er I can remember several cases years ag you know so going back two or three years where people were debating with me why did n't I put more into National Savings ? |
| 30 | Why did n't I end my life then ? |