Example sentences of "why [adv] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | mm why suddenly Essex though ? |
| 2 | Why not Juliet ? |
| 3 | A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do |
| 4 | If Plymouth , why not Exeter or Southampton ? |
| 5 | Why not Russia ? |
| 6 | IF KUWAIT deserves liberation from an aggressor , why not Tibet ? |
| 7 | That was something you were right into at that time : Africa Chile South-East Asia — so why not Europe ? |
| 8 | IF CORPORATE America can ‘ downsize ’ , shifting assets to fit today 's markets , why not America 's worst-off inner city ? |
| 9 | Why not David , or my mother ? ’ |
| 10 | Why not St Andrew 's ? |
| 11 | After Beatrix Potter 's Mrs Tiggwinkle and er the St Bartholomew 's and St Thomas 's hospitals for humans , why not St Tiggwinkles for old hedgehogs . |
| 12 | George , not unlike his subject , has spent about half his life in Ireland west , north and south he tells me I said why not Dublin and he says that 's what I meant |
| 13 | As a boy at Halton I had devoured every book available on the exploits of the RFC in World War I and my mind went at once to the great deeds of Ball , Bishop , McCudden , Mannock — why not Mahaddie , I thought ? |
| 14 | Why not Legoland — Katie Wood did and she had a very constructive time . |
| 15 | A J Lubin 's belief that Vincent was out to mock or deride his mother ( why not Kee ? ) by taking up with Sien , and by thus labelling his drawing , is of course pure supposition . |
| 16 | So why not Shaw ? |
| 17 | If Mr Mitterrand could do it , why not Mr Rocard ? |
| 18 | Why not Richard ? |
| 19 | If Nottingham , why not Leicester ? |
| 20 | I am very interested by all three , but why not Charles Ray or Kiki Smith ? |
| 21 | Why then Ile fit you . |
| 22 | A more substantial objection is why neither Karen nor I had dived in to try and save Dennis . |
| 23 | Yeah , but you see that 's why when Tracy come to me saying she wanted to , to exchange her council house I was annoyed because I said no , I got that council house for Tracy it 's in her name |