Example sentences of "why [vb past] [pron] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did we never see the child ? |
| 2 | Why did she not experience the usual terror at being shut in a small enclosed space ? |
| 3 | ‘ Why did you not call the fire brigade ? ’ he asked . |
| 4 | Why did you not have the common decency to inform your uncle Orrin of where you were going , even if you no longer wish to oblige your mother and me ? ’ |
| 5 | Erm , as we know , Bullitt was a member of the delegation and an intimate of , of Wilson , so the book is er co- authored , so in a sense we should know as we 're paying for , for all of it , because er , obviously , he relied on Bullitt to give him all this biographical information , and er , consequently what you see Freud doing in this in this book is , is er trawling through , as it were , the things that Bullitt told him , that , that Bullitt had found out , to erm , draw a kind of psy psychoanalytic portrait of Woodrow Wilson , that erm , tried to explain his problem , why did he not deliver the goods as it were . |
| 6 | Why did he not quote the decisive passages which they contained ? |
| 7 | Since the Government 's own inspectors had said that half of secondary school children were being educated in substandard buildings why did he not cancel the CTC programme and use the money to repair Britain 's crumbling schools ? |
| 8 | If Parliament had intended that , why did it not call the Act the ‘ Depraving and Corrupting Publications Act ’ ? |
| 9 | If everything he had projected on to Zoser was true , or a true picture of his own feelings , why had he not taken the action upon himself ? |
| 10 | Why had she not made the connection and what , in any case , was the connection ? |
| 11 | If the latter — why had she not gone the whole hog and burned it ? |