“Did you never ask him what he was going in for?”
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Then answered Har: Why do you not ask how many doors there are in Valhal, and how large they are?
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

“Why do you not ask hospitality in the convents of your order?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“Why did you not ascertain his condition for yourself?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“I am, that is, do you—I mean, do you need any help?”
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

“Do you need any help?” she stammered.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

“Do you need any help?” said Carrie, already learning directness of address.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

“And why did you not ask him here?”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

145 “I mean, why did you not arrest her after you left Morsbronn?”
— from The Maids of Paradise by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Do you need any help?
— from Crooked Trails by Frederic Remington

By this meanes the pope got a great masse of monie, which he had conueied ouer vnto him by such trustie messengers (doubt you not) as he had appointed; and yet nothing doone against the Turks, which in the meane season did much hurt to the christians.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (7 of 9) Henrie the Seauenth, Sonne to Edmund Earle of Richmond, Which Edmund was Brother by the Moothers Side to Henrie the Sixt by Raphael Holinshed

“Why did you not accompany him?”
— from Whoso Findeth a Wife by William Le Queux

“Why did you not address her on that night?”
— from Patience Sparhawk and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

"Then why do you not ask him?"
— from The Claverings by Anthony Trollope

"Why did you not ask him, my angel?" returned Marcantonio.
— from To Leeward by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

"Why do you not arrest him?" stammered Wilson.
— from Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes by Maurice Leblanc

What are you going to do?” yelled Noddy, as he caught the chugging of the motor.
— from The Motor Boys Over the Ocean; Or, A Marvelous Rescue in Mid-Air by Clarence Young