Example sentences of "why do n't [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | ‘ But why do n't they do something ? ’ |
| 3 | Why do n't they do something about it ? |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Why do n't they make adequate provision for their children ? ' |
| 6 | Why do n't they make an industry of it here ? |
| 7 | Facing people with the budgets of the poor often prompts the response , " why do n't they make soup ? " or " Fresh vegetables are cheaper than fish fingers . " |
| 8 | Perhaps they do not conclude this ; if so , why do n't they make their views known to the Secretary of State for Scotland before he approves this scheme ? |
| 9 | But why do n't they want the stable lads to know what weights ? |
| 10 | If the Manic Street Preachers are so Jonathan-Kinging radical why do n't they go round Channel 4 and kick Terry Christian 's smug , ugly , homophobic face in and then cut Amanda De Torybimbo 's Barbie-doll head off with a rusty cake slice ? |
| 11 | So why is there not somebody responsible security say why why do n't they go out there and stop it ? |
| 12 | They , if they want any quotes why do n't they go and see chairman , who 's Terry ? |
| 13 | Why do n't they go and fly near the dark ? |
| 14 | Why do n't they go out Well I can have somewhere else but they can all have their quiet place to talk . |
| 15 | Why do n't they sink ? " |
| 16 | If social anthropologists are sincere when they say that their subject is a kind of micro-sociology and when they proclaim that they no longer feel themselves to be members of a culture/society which is intrinsically " superior " to that of the people they are studying , why do n't they study themselves ? |
| 17 | ‘ Why do n't they stop having so many children ? ' |
| 18 | And if they want more — of whatever it is — why do n't they tell us ? ’ |
| 19 | If they have no rice why do n't they eat a new paradigm ? asked the developmentalists at their seminars as they loaded their plates at the restaurant buffets in their five-star hotels . |
| 20 | Why do n't they move or speak ? ’ |
| 21 | I only appear on infrequent occasions , so why do n't they think I 'm just a family friend ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Why do n't they give us parachutes , for God 's sake ? |
| 23 | Why do n't they give them the money to carry on and do all the good work they 've done , which is well worthwhile . |
| 24 | Why do n't they show us all Britain ? |
| 25 | So why do n't they admit it ? |
| 26 | ‘ Why do n't they revolt ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Why do n't they improve themselves ? ’ |
| 28 | Why do n't they carve like Greeks ? |
| 29 | They could walk , why do n't they walk ? |
| 30 | Why do n't they collect it together then ? |