Example sentences of "why [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why throw away the chance to do something different ? ’ he persisted . |
| 2 | ( 47 ) Why make so much fuss ? |
| 3 | Isobel Cunningham writes : Camphor , the old-fashioned remedy grandmothers the world over have rubbed on their chests since time immemorial , brought about the demise of Aliysa from the role of Classic-winning filly though why has never really been established . |
| 4 | Why has so little of the development in Docklands ‘ trickled down ’ to benefit the people of the East End of London ? |
| 5 | Why has there not been more response ? |
| 6 | why has there been such a Star Wars plan ? |
| 7 | Why has there been such a , a , thing in the fifties and sixties for buying and that sort of stuff ? |
| 8 | Why linger here in the sordid dark for nothing ? |
| 9 | This is the classic problem of an asset market where prices are falling — why buy now if the asset is going to be cheaper in the near future ? |
| 10 | Why wait around 8 weeks , and then have the op ? |
| 11 | The news is that those Rock Lobster lovers , The B-52's will be bringing their Love Shack to Britain in December but , hey , why wait that long ? |
| 12 | Defeat in the first Test , which starts on Thursday week , would leave many people asking : ‘ Why wait that long ? ’ |
| 13 | Why wait so long ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Besides , why wait so long to do it . |
| 15 | Tell me , why wait so long before coming here ? ’ |
| 16 | I warrant thee , why send hither ? |
| 17 | Just as it dislikes the thought of securitising its mortgage assets — ‘ why give away margin ? ’ asks Jon Foulds , its chairman since 1990 — so it also knows that underwriting the insurance it sells would eventually be more profitable than taking commissions from Standard Life . |
| 18 | Why chuck away your freedom ? ’ |
| 19 | Why spend so much money on mere clutter ? |
| 20 | If he had really only been looking for shelter and a place to doss down for the night , why look further than this ? |
| 21 | Here was clearly a magnate of considerable power and status , why look further afield for his name ? |
| 22 | ‘ It is , but why look so far ahead ? |
| 23 | At the same time if the hygiene factors were a poor working environment , poor salary and poor supervision then we might ask : ‘ Why work here ’ ? |
| 24 | ‘ But why run away ? ’ |
| 25 | Why use so many men just to stop them enjoying themselves ? |
| 26 | We learnt why seconds frequently jumar on this wall . |
| 27 | If we listen carefully to the process of critical doubt and then examine just what it is that is pronounced indubitable , we must surely ask : but why stop here ? |
| 28 | why stop there ? |
| 29 | In fact , why stop there ? |
| 30 | Why stop there ? |