Example sentences of "why do [not/n't] they just [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did n't they just stop at the sea ? |
| 2 | And why did n't they just pad you — why did you have to put on weight specially for it ? |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Why did n't they just dismount ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Why did n't they just cancel the whole thing ? ’ |
| 8 | ’ But why do n't they just do that ? ’ |
| 9 | Why do n't they just print the job supplement ? |
| 10 | Why do n't they just throw them away ! |
| 11 | Like , when they all went off and I thought well I do n't see , why do n't they just stop it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Oh well why do n't they just bring down as well you know might as well . |
| 14 | why do n't they just let the stuff grow naturally ? |
| 15 | Why do n't they just take their |
| 16 | I mean when Rutherford did his experiments years and years ago he produced his planetary model of the nucleus , of the atom where the nucleus plays the role of the sun and the electrons play the role of the planets , and people said well why do n't they just spiral in an erm Rutherford had actually no answer to this , but the answer to this was produced by the Danish physicist Nils Bore , who said ‘ Well they do n't spiral in because erm electrons can not just take up any orbit , they can take up certain specified orbits which he called stationary states , and there is a lowest one of these , and when the electron gets down there it can not go any further . |