Example sentences of "why [verb] n't [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Why did n't we pick him up ? |
| 32 | Well why did n't we see it ? |
| 33 | Why did n't we start raising hell straight away after Maastricht ? |
| 34 | Why did n't they come and visit me , Mum and Dad ? |
| 35 | ‘ Why did n't they float ? ’ |
| 36 | Why did n't they wait for the passengers to get off first , instead of squeezing themselves , their sacks of wheat and bicycles on at the same time that others were dragging their possessions off ? |
| 37 | Why did n't they call it ‘ Psychology for People ’ ? |
| 38 | ‘ Why did n't they let me take Drama ? |
| 39 | Why did n't they last when Edward tried to go further , she wondered ? |
| 40 | Margaret panicked , she 'd got the wrong number , the wrong place , the wrong advertisement , why did n't they get off the line , why did n't they leave her — |
| 41 | Margaret panicked , she 'd got the wrong number , the wrong place , the wrong advertisement , why did n't they get off the line , why did n't they leave her — |
| 42 | ‘ Why did n't they wait for me ? ’ |
| 43 | ‘ But if they wanted to kidnap you , why did n't they make a better job of it ? ’ asked Jack . |
| 44 | ‘ Why did n't they tie you up or guard you or something ? ’ |
| 45 | Why did n't they go straight to agricultural college ? |
| 46 | ‘ Why did n't they make Ashi write it ? |
| 47 | Why did n't they get out ? |
| 48 | So why did n't they do away with it altogether , or at least bury thing . ’ |
| 49 | And why did n't they just pad you — why did you have to put on weight specially for it ? |
| 50 | Why did n't they join him ? |
| 51 | Why why why did n't they work , you said they di very seldom |
| 52 | If they had their men inside our organisation , why did n't they act over Helmstadt ? ’ |
| 53 | People came with books for Miss Poraway , tattered green-backed Penguins , Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham , Surfeit of Lampreys by Ngaio Marsh , half of Why Did n't They Ask Evans ? , the greater part of Death and the Dancing Footman . |
| 54 | He knew it was what they wanted to do , what they had planned to do , so why did n't they just do it then ? |
| 55 | ‘ Then why did n't they kill you immediately ? ’ |
| 56 | Why did n't they just dismount ? ’ |
| 57 | ‘ Document A. That the man , who was belligerent on several occasions at first , threatening the social worker called in by the Visitor , said it was no business of theirs as it was a family matter and that the girl 's father , his own brother , had given his consent , and what more could you want , and there was no higher authority than that , and no wonder there was so much crime on the streets if the government took away the father 's power , and why did n't they do something about crime on the streets instead of invading people 's homes . |
| 58 | Why did n't they put it into something solid and endurable ? |
| 59 | ‘ They wanted more details and I said it was a murder dammit and why did n't they do something about it and he said ‘ Another of those ’ and … well they must do something . |
| 60 | Why did n't they have jobs like other people ? |