Example sentences of "why have not [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Hurd said Mr Smith 's speech had been on a motion of no confidence he had not tabled : ‘ And why has n't he ? |
| 2 | ‘ Then why has n't he seen us ? ’ |
| 3 | Why has n't he made out ? " |
| 4 | Why has n't He put His hand to Talvi , then ? |
| 5 | Why has n't he covered it ? |
| 6 | Why has n't he put his fingers in between it ? |
| 7 | Why has n't she done this before ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But … why has n't she said anything to Tom , my ma or me about it ? ’ |
| 9 | Why has n't it come ? |
| 10 | Why has n't it got a modulator ? |
| 11 | But the RCA executive just said ‘ If that 's such a good idea , why has n't someone else tried it ’ . |
| 12 | The use of a ‘ killer phrase ’ such as ‘ Well , if that 's such a great idea , why has n't someone else done it ? ’ is like telling a parent that their child has no talent . |
| 13 | " Why has n't someone told me this before ? |
| 14 | Why has n't anyone done it before ? |
| 15 | ‘ Why has n't there been anything in the papers ? |
| 16 | Why had n't somebody checked that they had n't left their spears for all and sundry to trip over ? |
| 17 | Why had n't her lipstick come off ? |
| 18 | Why had n't they told him ? |
| 19 | Why had n't they just put a notice up on the screen half through the scene she was shooting when she died , saying this has to stop somewhere ? |
| 20 | Why had n't they signalled they were coming in ? |
| 21 | Churchill was a particular hothead and , after all , if the Cabinet did n't condone what had happened , why had n't they authorised an enquiry ? |
| 22 | Why had n't they faded with time ? |
| 23 | Why had n't they given it to her ? |
| 24 | Why had n't they gone into all this at the time , really thrashed it out ? |
| 25 | Why had n't his own agency , HHCL , yet managed to net a car account ? |
| 26 | Now why had n't I thought of it before ! |
| 27 | Why had n't I gone to gentler old Winston 's place instead . |
| 28 | I could surely have bluffed out the running ; it was the standing under the rod that was the important part , the critical part ; why had n't I realised that ? |
| 29 | Why had n't I asked Flora ? |
| 30 | Why , why had n't I told Toby about it long ago ? |