Example sentences of "why [verb] [pers pn] go [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He started going on again about me going into mainstream journalism , how a friend of his had contacts in Fleet Street , why the hell did n't I grow up and settle down like normal girls , why did I go around with Jake . |
| 2 | Why did you go on about that erm place where you went for that beer and you know , you said that we worked for that |
| 3 | ‘ Why did you go off into the woods ? |
| 4 | Why did you go out of the way to kill Romeo ? |
| 5 | And why did you go out on strike in the first place ? |
| 6 | Well why did you go out with Nick for ? |
| 7 | Why did you go back to London in the first place ? — why did n't you stay here ? ’ |
| 8 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |
| 9 | ‘ Well , why did he go down to Streatley on the Saturday night , and make such a bloody secret of it ? ’ |
| 10 | So why why does it go down to very cold ? |