Example sentences of "why do [pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Why d' you keep away from me ?
2 ‘ Then why did she come back at all ? ’
3 Why did she come back from America ? ’
4 Why did I rush out like that ?
5 ‘ He started going on again about me going into mainstream journalism , how a friend of his had contacts in Fleet Street , why the hell did n't I grow up and settle down like normal girls , why did I go around with Jake .
6 Why did you go on about that erm place where you went for that beer and you know , you said that we worked for that
7 Why did you go off into the woods ?
8 Why did you go out of the way to kill Romeo ?
9 And why did you go out on strike in the first place ?
10 Well why did you go out with Nick for ?
11 Why did you go back to London in the first place ? — why did n't you stay here ? ’
12 Why did you Why did you decide on minus three .
13 ‘ If you believe that , why did you stay here in the first place ? ’
14 Why did you hold out on him ? ’
15 ‘ Oh , Finn , why did you run away from me ? ’
16 " But why did you run away from the hunting camp in the first place ? "
17 Why did you come across on a ferry flight ? ’
18 Just sugar and eggs in there , and the card why did you come back for ?
19 Why did you come back for ?
20 Why did you come out into the hall ? ’
21 Why did you slip away in secret like that ? ’ asked d'Urberville breathlessly .
22 Why did you get out of it ?
23 And why did you climb in in the first place ? ’
24 Why did you turn left at that last corridor ? ’
25 Why did you put up with it ? ’
26 Why did you put up with it ? ’
27 Why did he sit there in that most sociable of settings , solitary and apparently with neither need nor wish for company ?
28 Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ?
29 ‘ Well , why did he go down to Streatley on the Saturday night , and make such a bloody secret of it ? ’
30 Why did he disappear right in the middle of the fun ? ’
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