Example sentences of "why [verb] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did n't they come and visit me , Mum and Dad ? |
| 2 | ‘ Why did n't they float ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Why did n't they call it ‘ Psychology for People ’ ? |
| 5 | ‘ Why did n't they let me take Drama ? |
| 6 | Why did n't they last when Edward tried to go further , she wondered ? |
| 7 | 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 — |
| 8 | 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 — |
| 9 | ‘ Why did n't they wait for me ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But if they wanted to kidnap you , why did n't they make a better job of it ? ’ asked Jack . |
| 11 | ‘ Why did n't they tie you up or guard you or something ? ’ |
| 12 | Why did n't they go straight to agricultural college ? |
| 13 | ‘ Why did n't they make Ashi write it ? |
| 14 | Why did n't they get out ? |
| 15 | So why did n't they do away with it altogether , or at least bury thing . ’ |
| 16 | And why did n't they just pad you — why did you have to put on weight specially for it ? |
| 17 | Why did n't they join him ? |
| 18 | Why why why did n't they work , you said they di very seldom |
| 19 | If they had their men inside our organisation , why did n't they act over Helmstadt ? ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | ‘ Then why did n't they kill you immediately ? ’ |
| 23 | Why did n't they just dismount ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | Why did n't they put it into something solid and endurable ? |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | Why did n't they have jobs like other people ? |
| 28 | Why did n't they just cancel the whole thing ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ And why did n't they eat the fruit themselves ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Jesus and why did n't they send the Devil ? |