Example sentences of "why do you [vb infin] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why did you go to the trouble of hiring me if what you wanted were the same drab old styles of before ? ’ |
| 2 | Why did you go on a choir outing ? |
| 3 | Why did you go after the story in the first place if your position was n't clear ? ’ |
| 4 | Why did you sleep on the table ? |
| 5 | Why did you finish on the dredger ? |
| 6 | ‘ Tell me , Geoffrey , why did you stay in the Tower ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Why did you change over the eggs in that package ? ’ |
| 8 | ( ‘ Why did you come to the New World ? ’ one conquistador was once asked . |
| 9 | ‘ Why did you look at the two letters together ? ’ he asked . |
| 10 | ‘ Why did you look in the tunnel ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But why did you sneak into the corridors to talk to me ? ’ asked Endill . |
| 12 | Now , why did you sneak into the village in such an underhand manner , instead of asking our permission ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Why did you lie to the police ? ’ |
| 14 | Why did you get off the train ? ’ |
| 15 | Why do you panic like a silly girl every time something scares you ? |
| 16 | ‘ Why do you live in the Tower , a bleak dwelling place for any man ? ’ |
| 17 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 18 | ‘ Then why do you look like a child who 's lost its puppy dog ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Why do you shop at the chemist 's ? ’ |