Example sentences of "why [pron] [verb] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wonder why everyone does n't see that , ’ she remarked . |
| 2 | She in turn asked why I had n't been to visit her . |
| 3 | Only after they were built did the Manager of Shawcraft ask me why I had n't made the base more cone-shaped . |
| 4 | I wondered why I had n't thought of this before . |
| 5 | That 's why I had n't taken anything with me . ’ |
| 6 | I wondered why I had n't had the wit to take the starveling cat to Mother Joseph as soon as I knew that Nour might kill it . |
| 7 | He was wondering why I had n't returned his call . |
| 8 | Was that why I had n't wanted to believe the rumours ? |
| 9 | It was so obvious I could n't imagine why I had n't seen it before . |
| 10 | Why I did n't try to do more than this for so many months is an important question which I need to make some attempt to answer . |
| 11 | What I did n't understand was why I did n't feel happy walking down the street afterwards . |
| 12 | I never took off the signet [ Leslie now wrote ] and never would admit to myself why I did n't . |
| 13 | That might be why I did n't see it . |
| 14 | And she could n't understand why I did n't have a man . |
| 15 | ‘ Anyway , everyone kept asking why I did n't do my own brand amps and so about ‘ 86 I started . |
| 16 | ‘ That is precisely why I did n't want you to come to the hospital . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ Only the FA can tell you why I did n't get the job . |
| 18 | Do n't know why I did n't think of it sooner . |
| 19 | I still could n't fathom why I did n't altogether trust the man , ‘ I must be off , ’ I muttered and returned to lim . |
| 20 | Well I wa I was n't sure whether to whether it would come through in time for the case That 's why I did n't |
| 21 | I stood by the phone prodding away at my mind with the unanswerable rationalizations , wondering why I did n't feel happier and better now I 'd decided . |
| 22 | Just I mean out of interest the reason why I did n't take Sheffield |
| 23 | So that 's why I did n't take it . |
| 24 | That 's why I did n't speak to you on Tuesday night . |
| 25 | When they asked me why I did n't have a British passport that 's when the immigration problems started . |
| 26 | His researches go back to the 1950s : ‘ I was always fascinated by history — I spent five years as an architecture student and the reason why I did n't get through was that by the end I was much more interested in the history of architecture than other aspects of the subject , ’ he recalls . |
| 27 | I think that was half the reason why I did n't go down the doctors . |
| 28 | I got there and they asked me why I did n't get there sooner . |
| 29 | " I knew exactly why you did n't come and I thought you knew why I did n't come to you . |
| 30 | ‘ See why I did n't mention it before ? |