Example sentences of "why [vb past] [pron] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Why did she want it this afternoon ? ’ |
| 2 | Why did she tell you that ? |
| 3 | Why , oh , why did you tell him such a dreadful fib ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Why did you tell him that ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Why did you tell me that ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But why did you make me this way ? ’ |
| 7 | Why did you lend him all that money ? ’ she demanded fiercely , as if somehow trying to put the blame on to him . |
| 8 | Why did you invite me all the way out here from London to mastermind your publicity campaign , Roman ? |
| 9 | ‘ But why did you let us all go on thinking that David had left you ? ’ |
| 10 | Okay and why why did you divide it that way round ? |
| 11 | ‘ Why did you fake your own death ? ’ |
| 12 | I mean , why did he give us all these flowers ? ’ |
| 13 | Now why did he call it that , rather than making love ? |
| 14 | Why had she lost herself that way ? |
| 15 | Now , why had she told him that ? |