Example sentences of "why [vb past] [pers pn] [vb infin] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But why did they choose to build on their own valuable market places instead of expanding outwards into suburbs ? |
| 2 | But they did n't , so why did they want to come to Britain ? |
| 3 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |
| 4 | So why did she decide to leave after all ? |
| 5 | Why did she have to appear on the scene and spoil everything ? |
| 6 | Why did she have to rise to his taunts ? |
| 7 | Why did she keep reacting like this , and saying the wrong thing ? |
| 8 | ‘ Why did I have to fall for a suicidal maniac ? ’ she asked herself , and cleaned the flat from top to bottom to take her mind off the image of Jack dangling on the end of a rope above a muddy slit somewhere in subterranean Yorkshire ! |
| 9 | Why did I have to think of it now ? |
| 10 | What , why did you decide to go to those areas ? |
| 11 | Reporter asks : Why did you decide to search for the sisters ? |
| 12 | Anyway , why did you want to speak to him ? |
| 13 | ‘ Why did you stop going to church , Bridget ? |
| 14 | ‘ Miss Osborne is crying again , ’ she said , and asked , aggrieved , ‘ Why did you stop talking to me ? |
| 15 | ) . They 'll ask two-part questions : ‘ What made you leave then , and why did you choose to move to — ? ’ : leading questions : ‘ The company was in a terrible mess then — what part do you think your department played ? ’ ; and ‘ why ? ’ questions which require justification and can be asked ad infinitum : |
| 16 | And why did n't they just pad you — why did you have to put on weight specially for it ? |
| 17 | ‘ Why did you have to come on the scene , meddling ? |
| 18 | When you looked like Donna , why did you have to fret about not looking like the average social X-ray you saw in New York ? |
| 19 | But why did he choose to live in Bali rather than England ? |
| 20 | Why did he keep probing about Ryan ? |