Example sentences of "why [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why d' ya go if you do n't believe in it ? |
| 2 | Why d' ya ask whether I know anything about her ? |
| 3 | ‘ Why d' you come if you hate the noise they make ? |
| 4 | I simply wish to point out that if it is supposed that Karen Parsons and I embarked that afternoon with the intention of drowning her husband , why did we wait till we had reached a point where our criminal acts were overlooked by at least fifteen witnesses ? |
| 5 | So why did they think that they had the er means to do it in nineteen forty seven ? |
| 6 | The DNA content must be a small proportion of the total , so why did I say that it was raining DNA rather than cellulose ? |
| 7 | Why did you wait until I was asleep before coming to bed on the boat on the way over ? |
| 8 | Why did you wait until you were in Holland ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Why did you ask if I was married ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Why did you insist that I go to work for you … ? |
| 11 | But why did he feel that there was something more , and why was n't he acting on that instinct , the way that he 'd always acted ? |
| 12 | ‘ Why did he stay if he hated it so much ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But why did it matter that she teased you , love ? ’ |
| 14 | And why did it matter if he had ? |
| 15 | Why did it occur when it did ? |
| 16 | It could involve a civil engineering student considering the social effects of a new construction — in other words , taking on a sociological perspective ; it could be a student of English trying to answer the question ‘ What is literature and why do we assume that it is a good thing ? ’ — and so embracing the thinking of moral philosophy ; it might be a student in the performing arts trying to understand how and why a particular tradition had evolved — so embarking on a historical study ; it could be a chemistry student being invited to consider the effects on the natural environment of industrial or agricultural chemicals — so adding a biological approach to the subject ; or it might be a social science student keen on human perspectives being encouraged to look at underlying statistical patterns . |
| 17 | Why do we say that someone is grinning like a Cheshire Cat ? |
| 18 | The present unfair , first past the post system favours Labour most of the time , so why do they complain when it goes against them ? |
| 19 | Why do they differ and which is best ? |
| 20 | ‘ So why do you care that I was with her that night ? ’ |
| 21 | Erm in ter in terms of the erm crime why do why do you think that there is so much crime here ? |
| 22 | Right , go on , why do you agree , why do you think that there 's too much coverage of the Gulf ? |
| 23 | Why do you think that he said said to court he was gon na go for ? |
| 24 | Rather than just saying ‘ It 's rubbish ’ at the start , asking ‘ Why do you think that it 's rubbish ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ And why do you assume that I wo n't be willing to assist you ? ’ |
| 26 | But why , you 'd just forced the door open prior to arrest why do you wait until you got to the bedroom , indeed got the bedroom door open before shouting armed police . |
| 27 | Now why do I write that there , well this is my planning system . |
| 28 | When she had rustled off , Alexandra said with genuine simplicity , ‘ Why does it matter where she is ? |
| 29 | Why does it matter if your husband gets the lunch and drops the crumbs on the floor , so long as he clears up afterwards ? |
| 30 | Why why does it have cos you think of Wales as the land of song why does it happen that if you go to Ireland you have got to sing ? |