Example sentences of "why do n't [pers pn] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did n't we do the foul deed there , rather than risk facing a rugby team of accusing fingers at the inquest ? |
| 2 | So why did n't they do away with it altogether , or at least bury thing . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | There is something wrong with the relationships , there is as well as somebody doing the abuse , there are other people who are somehow complicit in the abuse because they 're allowing it to go on , they must have known , surely they must have known , why did n't they do something ? |
| 7 | I mean , that , very , very occasionally you 'll do something and you 'll think , erm why did n't I do that you think that 's stupid , you know , |
| 8 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
| 9 | ‘ Besides , if the story was so good , why did n't she do anything about it ? ’ |
| 10 | Why did n't he do any features ? |
| 11 | Secondly , when readers complain about the lives of writers — why did n't he do this ; why did n't he protest to the newspapers about that ; why was n't he more involved in life ? — are n't they really asking a simpler , and vainer , question : why is n't he more like us ? |
| 12 | Now if one was missing , there 'd be a report ; ‘ Why did n't you do this ? |
| 13 | ‘ Why did n't you do that when you first arrived ? |
| 14 | Why did n't you do something years ago , Mam ? |
| 15 | ‘ Why did n't you do something ? ’ she charged , walking towards him and halting a foot away . |
| 16 | Why did n't you do something ! ’ |
| 17 | So so when he 'd done it he said well two hundred and fifty quid I heard him and he said but I suppose you know the of it oh I do n't know and he said why did n't you do it ? |
| 18 | Why did n't you do it , start it earlier ? |
| 19 | Why did n't you do something about it ? |
| 20 | why did n't you do it on the way home ? |
| 21 | Why did n't you do that when we were here ? |
| 22 | Because of the recent return to figuration in the last ten years there is an enormous interest in British portraiture , but they put on a show like the ‘ Swagger portrait ’ only at the Tate Gallery ; why do n't they do it at the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome ; why not the Palazzo Reale , Milan ? |
| 23 | ‘ But why do n't they do something ? ’ |
| 24 | Why do n't they do something about it ? |
| 25 | Mm I mean er why do n't they do it on like the square , how big your house is because that way you could I know it 's not far when people who live in a great big old house do n't have to pay as much cos if this I mean Uncle Trevor and Aunty they 've got a massive great house have n't they ? |
| 26 | You may ask me then : ‘ Why do n't we do just that ? why has there been this passionate search for some other method of preventing the fall in the value of money or controlling the fall in the value of money , if a cause and perhaps the major cause is undisputed , assessable and obvious ? ’ |
| 27 | Suddenly one would leap onto a bale of hay and exclaim , ‘ I know , kids , why do n't we do the show right here … ? ’ |
| 28 | The question is not what can we do about the greenhouse effect , but why do n't we do anything ? |
| 29 | Why do n't we do it ? ’ and we all agreed rather tentatively that it might be a good idea . |
| 30 | If it 's a fun day why do n't we do a game or something . |