Example sentences of "why [verb] [pron] [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why has it gone to somebody who ? |
| 2 | If the sole intention of the Association were to secure civil rights for Ulster Catholics while accepting and loyally supporting the constitution of the Ulster state … why has it admitted to its counsels and membership , as it undoubtedly has , a number of men from an organisation pledged to the destruction of that state ? |
| 3 | ‘ Then why did she lie to me ? ’ |
| 4 | Why did you speak to him ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Why did you come to me ? ’ |
| 6 | I said to her , Ah I thought that you were going Why did you lie to me saying that you were going to get a book . |
| 7 | ‘ Why did you lie to me ? ’ |
| 8 | Tell me , Robbie , why did you lie to me about Hugh ? |
| 9 | ‘ So why did you lie to me ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Then why did you agree to it ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Why did he talk to you about that anyway ? ’ demanded Ethel . |
| 12 | Why did he listen to us talking in the kitchen ? |
| 13 | Well why did he say to me he wanted a girl ? |
| 14 | ‘ Why did he come to you rather than me ? ’ she asked , through lips grown strangely dry . |
| 15 | And if she did slip away , why did it matter to him ? |
| 16 | ‘ Why did it happen to him ? ’ |
| 17 | Gradually trust developed and themes emerged : sadness , ‘ A grief with no end ’ ; anger , ‘ Why did it happen to me ? ’ ; and frustration with the professionals who could not fully understand their plight . |
| 18 | Why do we do to them what we do ? |
| 19 | Why do we listen to her ? |
| 20 | Why do they happen to me , these numb , flushed , unanswerable , these pornographic things ? |
| 21 | Then why do you go to your G P ? |
| 22 | Why do you go to your G Ps ? |
| 23 | Why do you want to it ? |
| 24 | ‘ Why do you cry to me ? |
| 25 | If your MP solicits your vote , say in your best Godfather voice : ‘ Why do you come to me now ? ’ |
| 26 | Why do you come to me with a proposal for something you have resisted all along ? ’ |
| 27 | Why do you add to my miseries by haunting me and confronting me with my sins ? ’ |
| 28 | Why does he talk to her ? |
| 29 | Why does he arrogate to himself the claim to know more about patient care than all those professionals ? |
| 30 | Why had I listened to him ? |