Example sentences of "why [verb] [pron] [vb infin] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did she have to be born into a mad , slave-driving family ? |
| 2 | Why did she have to be so difficult ? |
| 3 | ‘ Then why did she claim to be ? ’ |
| 4 | Why did I want to be a policeman . |
| 5 | Why did he have to be so rude ? ’ |
| 6 | Why did he have to be so careless that he 'd ended up in prison ? |
| 7 | Why did he have to be here ? |
| 8 | Oh , why did it have to be so hard ? |
| 9 | Singularity , like , later , monogamy , was a difficult thing , a strain , almost an oddity : perhaps that was its appeal for him , but why did it have to be so ? |
| 10 | Why did it have to be so far off the ground ? |
| 11 | Why did it have to be a scarf ? he wondered . |
| 12 | And why , why did it have to be him who found her ? |
| 13 | Why did it have to be her ? ’ |
| 14 | And why did it have to be this man above all others who made her heart beat that little bit faster ? |
| 15 | Out of all the men who had liked her and wanted her , why did it have to be someone who thought her the most despicable of all cheats who made her yearn for something more ? |
| 16 | Why did it have to be him ? |
| 17 | Of all the men I 've met since I even realised there was a difference between the sexes , why did it have to be this one who got under my skin ? ’ |
| 18 | Why do we need to be reminded about the eradication of time all the time ? |
| 19 | Why do we have to be so humiliated by officialdom ? |
| 20 | ‘ But why do they pretend to be brother and sister ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Yeah , why do they have to be here ? |
| 22 | Why do you want to be a policeman ? |
| 23 | And why do you want to be the Prime Minister ? |
| 24 | Erm why do you have to be strong to be a policeman ? |
| 25 | But why do you have to be so hostile ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Then why do you have to be so cussed ? ’ he enquired . |
| 27 | Why do you have to be a heart breaker . |
| 28 | He looked embarrassed , thinking , why do I have to be in on these crises ? |
| 29 | Why is he there , why does he want to be there ? |
| 30 | Why does He have to be so mysterious ? |