Example sentences of "but why did " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he was ill , bad luck , but why did he have to ruin everything for me ? |
| 2 | ‘ But why did n't the first guest get the poisoned beef ? ’ |
| 3 | But why did it decline ? |
| 4 | ‘ But why did you make me this way ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But why did you sneak into the corridors to talk to me ? ’ asked Endill . |
| 6 | ‘ But why did n't you tell me about him before ? |
| 7 | ‘ But why did you do it ? ’ he said . |
| 8 | But why did it all have to be so messy and complicated ? |
| 9 | But why did n't you tell me before that you believed in women 's lib ? |
| 10 | I hate myself for asking , but why did you leave ? |
| 11 | But why did he choose to live in Bali rather than England ? |
| 12 | But why did she not write ? |
| 13 | People would say — usually his father — that if he was determined to be an artist , well and good , but why did he spend so much time with books , and silly French novels at that ? |
| 14 | But why did society voluntarily accept the constraints imposed by the gold standard ? |
| 15 | You may ask — but why did n't you say ? |
| 16 | Turns out , Deardrie , she 's applied to be an astronaut — I remember seeing the advert , asking for people to go to the moon — it 's not that I 'm jealous , but why did n't she ask me first ? |
| 17 | As Mrs Robson said , people had taken to war like they did to life : they had accepted it and were living with it and with all the things it did to them ; but why did them up top have to go and stop the flower trains coming from Cornwall ? |
| 18 | So I will take the blame for that one , but why did n't the machine tuck up on the first two garments of the same size ? |
| 19 | ‘ But … but why did n't she come and take me with her ? |
| 20 | But why did he have to leave his job ? |
| 21 | Singularity , like , later , monogamy , was a difficult thing , a strain , almost an oddity : perhaps that was its appeal for him , but why did it have to be so ? |
| 22 | Yes but why did Hitachi Data Systems Ltd choose the name Osiris for its new mainframe Unix combination ( see front ) : in the clearest indication possible that it regards the MVS mainframe as doomed , it has produced a colourful flyer that explains that Osiris was an ancient Egyptian king who after painful adventures became a god , and chose to act as an intermediary between the living and the dead , looking after the souls of the departed and giving the living the hope of eternal happiness in the other world ; ‘ In providing a quality solution which integrates open systems with existing System 370 and 390 environments , ’ the company says , ‘ HDS provides the best of both worlds ’ ( the living and the dead , that is ) . |
| 23 | But why did n't we get the best housing ? |
| 24 | But why did they ever think a roof on its own was enough ? |
| 25 | But why did they … ? " |
| 26 | But why did this happen ? |
| 27 | ‘ But why did he choose that ? ’ she wanted to know . |
| 28 | For centuries the lane served no doubt as a cattle-road , but why did it come into existence at all , and when ? |
| 29 | But why did they choose to build on their own valuable market places instead of expanding outwards into suburbs ? |
| 30 | ‘ But why did n't she tell us earlier ? ’ |