Example sentences of "why do [pers pn] [not/n't] " 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 | If the police are truly interested in being accountable to and building bridges with those that they police , why did they not discuss their plans with representatives of the community organisations on the estate ? |
| 6 | Reviewing national programmes , however , raises key and difficult questions for both donors ( why did they not co-operate more effectively ? ) and recipients ( how could they justify a range of prestige projects ? why are they more dependant on aid than ever ? ) |
| 7 | Then : ‘ Why did they not ? ’ he asked . |
| 8 | Why did they not interfere with catapults ? — these did more injury than other weapons . ’ |
| 9 | Why did they not give tea parties for their own men ( if they were able to find any ) ? |
| 10 | Why did they not rather try to recruit them into the STA in some way , as a separate women 's branch for instance , as in the past ? |
| 11 | Why did they not give her toys to play with ? |
| 12 | Why did they not act boldly like the Russians ? |
| 13 | For the lord 's sake , then , why did they not put in some repairs ? |
| 14 | Why did they not receive greater support ? |
| 15 | Then why did she not agree to it ? |
| 16 | Why did she not experience the usual terror at being shut in a small enclosed space ? |
| 17 | But why did she not write ? |
| 18 | Why did I not think of that , then ? |
| 19 | Even so , you will wonder , why did I not respond ? |
| 20 | Why did I not die there and then ? |
| 21 | ‘ Why did you not call the fire brigade ? ’ he asked . |
| 22 | Why did you not stop me ? ’ |
| 23 | And , if so , why did you not send Seton back to search for his master or send members of your own household to look for him ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Nurse Dungarvan , why did you not explain at once that Mr Leland was seeing a patient in here ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Why did you not mention this before ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ But why did you not tell me that at once ? ’ |
| 27 | " Why did you not keep him ? " |
| 28 | Instead , he had hardly begun before he was embraced by a Brahmin woman and was asked , ‘ Why did you not come sooner ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Why did you not go to the feast ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Why did you not answer me ? ’ |