Example sentences of "and why did " in BNC.
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1 | And why did she bother ? |
2 | 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 ? |
3 | She 's so beautiful , and why did this happen ? |
4 | 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 . ’ |
5 | So why were so many firms — and bits of firms — bought and sold in the 1980s , and why did their values vary so much ? |
6 | Why was it built in the way it was and why did the engineering world show so little interest in it ? |
7 | And why did Heav'n 's creating Power form |
8 | And why did bodies adopt what I shall call a ‘ bottlenecked ’ life cycle ? |
9 | 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 ? |
10 | ‘ And why did she leave ? ’ |
11 | And why did thinking about it , yes , it did , frighten him ? |
12 | And looking to heaven , I complained , ‘ And why did you let me ? ’ |
13 | Why did they choose to omit a particular miracle and why did they change the chronology elsewhere ? |
14 | Marian asked , ‘ and why did they attack you ? ’ |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | ‘ And why did n't you come straight home ? ’ |
18 | 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 ? |
19 | And why did n't Mario follow his example ? |
20 | And why Did I ever tell you , as though I were an old friend ? |
21 | ) . 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 : |
22 | And why did n't they just pad you — why did you have to put on weight specially for it ? |
23 | 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 . |
24 | And why did n't the policeman want him to see the suite ? |
25 | 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 . |
26 | But how and why did people use the media ? |
27 | ‘ And why did n't you tell me ? ’ |
28 | How and why did this extraordinary and extraordinarily rapid turnabout in attitudes take place ? |
29 | And why did it matter if he had ? |
30 | What were these different assessments , and why did they differ ? |