Example sentences of "but why [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But why bother anyway ? |
| 2 | But why bother ? |
| 3 | ‘ But why bother working for a scurvy Earth company , then ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But why bother to mislead us ? ’ |
| 5 | But why bother to enlighten him ? |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sure you can , but why bother when I can save you the trouble ? |
| 7 | ‘ But why bother , I ask myself , when all you 're goin' to get for breakfast is a worm . ’ |
| 8 | But why start early and finish in the middle of the day ? |
| 9 | It 's a good idea , but why block it off for certain limited hours ? |
| 10 | ‘ But why change the kind of victim ? |
| 11 | Well , all right , your editorial ‘ Holy bat-poo ’ ( 18 February ) is n't meant to be taken too seriously , but why vilify the harmless bat ? |
| 12 | But why chose this as a means of capturing the hearer 's attention ? |
| 13 | But why stir up a hornet 's nest by accusing Erdle when murder has n't been mentioned ? ’ |
| 14 | " But why move into a dump like that ? " |
| 15 | But why pat it ? |
| 16 | But why restrict access ? |
| 17 | Of course it had been a silly question , but why had she been so cross ? |
| 18 | But why had he come to see our pissy show ? |
| 19 | Hitler had taken on the mysterious Soviets , but why had he chosen to invade Russia and not the British Isles ? |
| 20 | But why had they been sitting on a table ? |
| 21 | St Ives freely admitted his nerves were in fragments , what with Dawn Allenby 's recent caper and the tragic death earlier that morning of the boy who had severed an artery on Haggerty 's steps , but why had nobody reprimanded the stage-door keeper for listening to the wireless during a performance ? |
| 22 | Well , he said , to Sullivan , he knew that the British had never like him , But why had the CIA turned on him ? |
| 23 | But why had people forgotten ? |
| 24 | You had made me , but why had you not looked after me , and saved me from this pain and unhappiness ? |
| 25 | But why had Portia Forbes been so provocative ? |
| 26 | But why had he invited her ? |
| 27 | But why had the letters caused so much upset ? |
| 28 | But why had Tatham wanted to keep that house ? |
| 29 | But why had n't she told her ? |
| 30 | But why had n't he told her the truth ? |