Example sentences of "why [verb] [pron] [vb infin] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why d' ya want really good clothes ? |
| 2 | Why d' ya take so long in I ca n't be prepared to do all that ? |
| 3 | Why d' you get so mad if anyone asks you — ’ |
| 4 | Why did they appear so anxious ? |
| 5 | Why did she feel so strange , so … ashamed ? |
| 6 | She looked exactly how she had wanted to look , like a woman who had dressed for a man , so why did she feel so unsure of herself now ? |
| 7 | Why did she feel so worried ? |
| 8 | She found no difficulty in detaching herself from Leif 's advances , so why did she seem pathologically incapable of breaking contact now ? |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , why did I cry so much ? ’ said Alice . |
| 10 | Occasionally he 'll ask a question such as : Why did you need so many taxis in Hong Kong ? " |
| 11 | ‘ Mr Choak , why did you come here this morning ? ’ |
| 12 | Why did you take so long to choose your book Charlotte ? |
| 13 | ‘ Why did you get so cross with the critic ? ’ asked Betty with a knowing and unbelieving smile . |
| 14 | It was unfortunate when a zoo lost an eagle , so why did he feel so pleased about it ? |
| 15 | Why did he grin so much , showing his discoloured teeth ? |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | Why did he take so long in cashing it ? |
| 18 | Why did it matter so much where you were buried ? |
| 19 | And if that word , if that tiny little word did n't really mean anything , why did it hurt so much that he had n't used it ? |
| 20 | So why did it attract so much comment ? |
| 21 | Why did it feel so right to have Luke stroke his hand along the curve of her thigh , to feel it slide up over her hip and dip into the hollow of her waist before moving on to the fullness of her breast ? |
| 22 | Why did it sell so many copies by word of mouth ? |
| 23 | They cost just a pound a copy to produce , so why do we pay so much for them in the shops ? |
| 24 | It 's a common disease , so why do we know so little about it ? |
| 25 | Why do we require so many staff to do no more than our competitors ? |
| 26 | Why do we see only three space and one time dimension ? |
| 27 | ‘ We 've been a team for ever , and they 'll say things like , ‘ If we 're no going to learn a lot more about this character , why do we have so much about him in the beginning ? ’ |
| 28 | Why do they stay as Religious ? |
| 29 | Why do they remain so faithful to the Conservative Party ? |
| 30 | ‘ But why do they wear so few clothes ? |