Example sentences of "why [modal v] n't [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should n't he just be getting old ? |
| 2 | Why could n't everyone else ? |
| 3 | Why could n't they just leave well alone and let pupils concentrate on the three Rs ? |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Why could n't somebody else find it ? |
| 6 | Why could n't he just get over her ? |
| 7 | So why could n't he just have a photograph of his sales team portraying the kind of team spirit that runs throughout the branch ? |
| 8 | Why could n't he just talk about it reasonably ? |
| 9 | Why could n't he simply accept that she was not about to defer to his wishes and go ? |
| 10 | Why could n't I just have gone to the cops and reported my stuff missing ? 'Cos I was missing myself , that 's why . |
| 11 | ‘ Why could n't you just stay in the back of beyond ? ’ she said . |
| 12 | If you wanted planning permission for the land so badly , why could n't you just ask ? ’ |
| 13 | Why could n't you actually have J U G , one G , L E ? |
| 14 | Why could n't she just ignore him ? she wondered despairingly . |
| 15 | Why could n't she just leave things and be coolly polite ? |
| 16 | Why could n't she just relax and enjoy the evening , like everyone else ? |
| 17 | Why would n't she just tell him instead of giving those long , mournful glances ? |
| 18 | Why ca n't they simply get on with things ? |
| 19 | Why ca n't they just ransom me ? |
| 20 | Er , why ca n't they just look at , er do a means test for child benefit ? |
| 21 | Yet there 's nothing sordid to it , so why ca n't they just accept that Rosemary made a terrible mistake and married a rotter . |
| 22 | Why ca n't they just tell you ? |
| 23 | So why , why , why ca n't you just erm why ca n't they just take a bit off everybody in that case and , and inflict the same degree ? |
| 24 | why ca n't they now decrease that , and er start doing advertising ? |
| 25 | Yeah , erm modern when in choosing a mate and er connection with that because with the assumption that males generally do n't give any parental investment what really benefit them to you know biologically can , can support the offspring themselves short period of time why ca n't they then go you know to have their own I mean |
| 26 | Anyway why , why ca n't we easily use these capital receipts ? |
| 27 | Why ca n't we just have them in a loose-leaf binder with dividers in , and let the engineer decide how to hold documentation together ? |
| 28 | Why ca n't you just stay home forever , daddy ? |
| 29 | ‘ Why ca n't you just let me live my life how I want to ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ What I mean is , why ca n't you just admit that it was wonderfully exciting to fuck somebody else ? ’ |