Example sentences of "[conj] why did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or why did Stef kidnap well I , you know I ca n't understand this girl , because she 's been in er , I mean she must of seen him when , when he 's approached her to buy the house |
| 2 | If the officers could tell us that why did n't they tell the controlling labour group , I 'm sure they did and then the question is why did n't you listen to them . |
| 3 | And why did she bother ? |
| 4 | Why were they interested in those topics which they chose to emphasize , and why did the work of certain authors , especially that of Lewis Henry Morgan , gain such prominence in their thinking ? |
| 5 | She 's so beautiful , and why did this happen ? |
| 6 | Mary Finnigan : It was at this time , when David flew out to Malta , then not only were we organising the Arts Lab but a free open air festival in Beckenham , David , having flown out to the Maltese song festival had sent Angie a postcard saying something to the effect that he was going to be in Italy and why did n't Angie come and join him , which she did , leaving me to sort out both the folk club and the free festival organised for Beckenham Park the following Sunday . ’ |
| 7 | So why were so many firms — and bits of firms — bought and sold in the 1980s , and why did their values vary so much ? |
| 8 | Why was it built in the way it was and why did the engineering world show so little interest in it ? |
| 9 | And why did Heav'n 's creating Power form |
| 10 | And why did bodies adopt what I shall call a ‘ bottlenecked ’ life cycle ? |
| 11 | And — who was Lord Fiske of the Decimal Currency Board ( ah , glorious corporatist Labour party designation , The Decimal Currency Board ) and why did he say that ‘ All was going well ’ when nobody except the very young or very bright could understand a thing ? |
| 12 | ‘ And why did she leave ? ’ |
| 13 | And why did thinking about it , yes , it did , frighten him ? |
| 14 | And looking to heaven , I complained , ‘ And why did you let me ? ’ |
| 15 | Why did they choose to omit a particular miracle and why did they change the chronology elsewhere ? |
| 16 | Marian asked , ‘ and why did they attack you ? ’ |
| 17 | Bambi smiled thinly , and Sheridan said in a loud voice that he thought the whole thing was stupid ; everyone knew there had n't been any goddam kidnap attempt and why did n't Zak stop messing around and piss off . |
| 18 | And when I came across people who told me I must be , at best , gullible to believe in metaphysics ( and why did n't I rejoin their random , meaningless reality ? ) , then I had invited them into my world . |
| 19 | ‘ And why did n't you come straight home ? ’ |
| 20 | And why did he do it when it was perfectly possible for him to have experimented on any cadaver purchased by him for his medical academy ? |
| 21 | And why did n't Mario follow his example ? |
| 22 | And why Did I ever tell you , as though I were an old friend ? |
| 23 | ) . They 'll ask two-part questions : ‘ What made you leave then , and why did you choose to move to — ? ’ : leading questions : ‘ The company was in a terrible mess then — what part do you think your department played ? ’ ; and ‘ why ? ’ questions which require justification and can be asked ad infinitum : |
| 24 | And why did n't they just pad you — why did you have to put on weight specially for it ? |
| 25 | Of course , you 'd read of these places and screwed up your nose in disgust and said such things should n't be permitted , and why did n't someone else do something about it . |
| 26 | And why did n't the policeman want him to see the suite ? |
| 27 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 28 | But how and why did people use the media ? |
| 29 | ‘ And why did n't you tell me ? ’ |
| 30 | How and why did this extraordinary and extraordinarily rapid turnabout in attitudes take place ? |