Example sentences of "why do [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture ?
2 So why did its industrial-sector peers only award Hanson fourth place , which left it out of our overall top 20 ?
3 But if the reformers are in the ascendant , why did their fragile 86-year-old leader , Deng Xiaoping , find it necessary to make an appearance on December 26th at a local election ?
4 So why were so many firms — and bits of firms — bought and sold in the 1980s , and why did their values vary so much ?
5 But , as Schopf asks , if such diverse communities were present at this early date , why did their members remain essentially unchanged for so long ?
6 Why did her mother have to go to Aberdeen ?
7 Why did her mother , a young and seemingly attractive girl , never come to terms with either widowhood or motherhood ?
8 Why did her mouth go dry and her treacherous heart start pounding away inside her chest like war drums in the jungle ?
9 Why did our ancestors decide to have a town at the site which is now the centre of Newcastle ?
10 Why did our village catch fire ? — The gods did it .
11 He asked : ‘ Why did our civilisation produce people who were afraid to con-quer , people who were afraid to win ?
12 Why did our large country , our wise and old and very large country , begin to think so small that we became a nation of losers , a country of discount shopkeepers content to bask in the glory of our heritage . ’
13 Why did our son die ?
14 So let's , ask ourself these questions , not just for this woman of Samaria but for us , why did our Lord seek the interview with this woman ?
15 Why did my uncle bury the key ?
16 Why did my baby die ?
17 Why did your brother always quote these ? ’
18 Why did your mother hate your wife ? ’
19 ‘ And why did your friend tell you all this ? ’
20 Why did your father live here rather than at the palazzo ? ’
21 Why did your father insist on meeting his friends every year just before Christmas ? ’
22 Why did your brother dislike Burghgesh so much ? ’
23 Someone at the bell — why did his factor and nephew Robert not go out and stop them ?
24 Why did his letters meet with an inexplicable silence ?
25 Yet , if that were so , why did his plan entail an attack from the east bank of the Meuse only , and not from the west bank also , to achieve a successful pincer operation ?
26 ‘ No , ’ said the boy , ‘ but why did his wife say he was up on the roof if he was n't ? ’
27 Why did his Uncle Elias have to leave America ?
28 Why did his hair never seem to change ?
29 why did his , her husband
30 So why do their activities arouse deep suspicion among tax authorities and police forces ?
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