Example sentences of "but why do n't [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But why do n't they want the stable lads to know what weights ? |
| 2 | ‘ But why do n't they do something ? ’ |
| 3 | I suppose a couple of centuries ago most of the commercial production of energy , if you could call it that two centuries ago , was via windmills and perhaps watermills , but why do n't we go back to wind power ? |
| 4 | The question is not what can we do about the greenhouse effect , but why do n't we do anything ? |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , I think so , but why do n't we take my car ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sorry you 're miffed because I do n't want to sell and I 'm sorry our views on the nuisance value of my workshop conflict , ’ Ashley said , ‘ but why do n't we wait until the villas are occupied and take a vote among the owners ? |
| 7 | But why do n't we know anything about them ? |
| 8 | But why do n't I tell him myself ? |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll admit anything you like — but why do n't you start using your brains for a change ? ’ he told her roughly . |
| 10 | Your worse than Albert , but why do n't you go to front of bloody paper . |
| 11 | ‘ But why do n't you want to go to Gran 's ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ But why do n't you wear your hair down ? |
| 13 | But why do n't you allow them to run a similar course there because it would mean more student members |
| 14 | ‘ But why do n't you let me cook it ? |
| 15 | ‘ But why do n't you use the goddam bog ? ’ someone says . |
| 16 | But why do n't you use the other one ? |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | But why did n't we get the best housing ? |
| 19 | ‘ But why did n't she tell us earlier ? ’ |
| 20 | But why did n't she go on a Saturday then ? |
| 21 | Turns out , Deardrie , she 's applied to be an astronaut — I remember seeing the advert , asking for people to go to the moon — it 's not that I 'm jealous , but why did n't she ask me first ? |
| 22 | ‘ But … but why did n't she come and take me with her ? |
| 23 | ‘ But why did n't he tell me ? ’ |
| 24 | But why did n't he tell anybody about ? |
| 25 | ‘ But why did n't you tell me about him before ? |
| 26 | But why did n't you tell me before that you believed in women 's lib ? |
| 27 | ‘ But why did n't you tell me about it when I was here two days ago ? ’ |
| 28 | But why did n't you tell me that things would work out ? ’ |
| 29 | But why did n't you tell me ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ But why did n't you tell me sooner ? ’ |