Example sentences of "not [pers pn] just [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why do n't I just wear a bag over my head ? ’ she asked . |
| 2 | Ludens thought , why ca n't I do that , why ca n't I just ask a woman to hold my hand , why ca n't I ask Franca to ! |
| 3 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 4 | Ca n't you just do a find ? |
| 5 | Ca n't you just accept a fact ? ’ |
| 6 | Why do n't you just take a case of it , one of those cases home , one of the empty empty cases ? |
| 7 | Why do n't you just put a rope across it there then , walk across the rope . |
| 8 | Why do n't you just put a line through it . |
| 9 | Why ca n't you just use a task request form that says . |
| 10 | Ca n't you just get a train into London ? |
| 11 | Ca n't we just put a clause |
| 12 | So why , why , why ca n't you just erm why ca n't they just take a bit off everybody in that case and , and inflict the same degree ? |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | ‘ Why does n't he just wear a cocktail dress ? ’ asks Richard . |
| 15 | Could n't he just have a tractor ? ’ |
| 16 | So why could n't he just have a photograph of his sales team portraying the kind of team spirit that runs throughout the branch ? |