Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [verb] [pron] not [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |
| 2 | Why did you not stop me ? ’ |
| 3 | and I ca n't see the two people involved being able to stomach that very easily because questions like why did you not ask for counselling at the time or you were in charge and why did you not ensure he had any adequate |
| 4 | ‘ Why did you not answer me ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But why did you not tell me that at once ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Why did you not tell me how you were placed ? ’ demanded Lady Merchiston the moment she walked through the door . |
| 7 | My neighbours , my friends , why did you not save me from this ? |
| 8 | " Why did you not keep him ? " |
| 9 | So why did he not sort it out three years ago ? |
| 10 | In considering Lanfranc 's letter of 1072 , we were faced with the question : Why did he not produce them at the papal court ? |
| 11 | Why do we not add them to the list of axioms given above ? |
| 12 | Why do you not recognize us ? |
| 13 | ‘ Why do you not let me take my participation a stage further ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Why do you not join him ? ’ |
| 15 | Many times have I heard people say , ‘ But if there is a God up there , then why does he not help me in my dilemma ? ’ |
| 16 | Is the Prime Minister , who 's role in this affair is so crucial , that she simply must take part in the debate which we hope to have in this House ; why does she not admit it . |
| 17 | Why had she not consulted them ? |
| 18 | Why had she not received them earlier ? |
| 19 | Oh , why had she not told him who she was straight away ? |
| 20 | Why had she not jostled them while feeling her way around ? |
| 21 | Why had I not told her this and that ? |
| 22 | ‘ Why have you not asked me for tools , instead of breaking your finger-nails and your heart on firewood and trash ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Why have you not rung me , Carlo ? ’ |