Example sentences of "why [verb] [adv] they " in BNC.

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31 Why did n't they just stop at the sea ?
32 Why did n't they produce a grandstand actually full of people ? ) complete Turkish prison with 6 of the ‘ best fans in the world ’ contained inside .
33 However , they were originally scheduled for different nights , but it has always been possible for this scenario to arrise , so why did n't they just schedule the matches to be played at the same time no matter what ?
34 You know , because this , were they slacking in some way , why did n't they get twenty ?
35 because they do n't give a specific definition as to what a landlord is or a rich peasant or a middle peasant meant that how that there was a lot of flexibility within that and it 's only later that they have to reissue those two documents on how to analyze the classes which erm which had been published in nineteen thirty which they felt that you know the Party 's moving too far away , but why did n't they do it at the time ?
36 I 'm actually concerned that if we , did anybody know about this issue earlier on because I think this has been going on for quite some time erm probably over the last two years and if anyone did know then why did n't they address it before and if anyone did n't know , why not ?
37 Why did n't they use a spotlight ?
38 ‘ It was the time they started sending memos out to referees , and I said straight why did n't they just get on with administration and leave us to do the bloody job on the field .
39 Why did n't they examine my action first ?
40 ‘ If they want our co-operation why did n't they give us prior notice ?
41 Why did n't they kill me off ?
42 why did n't they get rid of the train to Banbury ?
43 Why did n't they give you it ?
44 but I , he says he did n't , I mean , since she 's had the chop , but between having the first and then having the twins , the second , she went back to work then at the Building Society , so she 's got a cheaper mortgage , so why did n't they pay some off then ?
45 Well why did n't they ask us then ?
46 There is something wrong with the relationships , there is as well as somebody doing the abuse , there are other people who are somehow complicit in the abuse because they 're allowing it to go on , they must have known , surely they must have known , why did n't they do something ?
47 If the officers could tell us that why did n't they tell the controlling labour group , I 'm sure they did and then the question is why did n't you listen to them .
48 Why did n't they supply you with an adaptor ?
49 Yeah why did n't they leave it open ?
50 Well why did n't they get a mile away from where they put that money they could 've , they could 've been planned it away , a mile away all
51 Well that 's what I said why did n't they surround it a mile away .
52 Why do n't they look ?
53 Donald , any question that starts out ‘ Why do n't they — ’ the answer is always ‘ Money ’ …
54 Why do n't they carve like Greeks ?
55 Why do n't they check out Brecht or Oscar Wilde pioneers .
56 Why do n't they run on the beach ?
57 If thicker shells are really better for the snail , why do n't they have them anyway ?
58 If this is true , then why do n't they roll right at the surface like 80 per cent of other bream ?
59 Why do n't they move or speak ? ’
60 Of course the legendary Super Champ ( why do n't they just bring it back and be done with it ) was the nearest thing to a ‘ Boogie in a matchbox ’ ( or , for that matter , why do n't Boogie ? ) and I suppose the Champ 12 forms an obvious transitional link between that and this new model .
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