Example sentences of "why [vb past] [pers pn] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then why did she come back at all ? ’ |
| 2 | ’ Why did she come back from America ? ’ |
| 3 | Why did I rush out like that ? |
| 4 | ‘ He started going on again about me going into mainstream journalism , how a friend of his had contacts in Fleet Street , why the hell did n't I grow up and settle down like normal girls , why did I go around with Jake . |
| 5 | Why did you go on about that erm place where you went for that beer and you know , you said that we worked for that |
| 6 | ‘ Why did you go off into the woods ? |
| 7 | Why did you go out of the way to kill Romeo ? |
| 8 | And why did you go out on strike in the first place ? |
| 9 | Well why did you go out with Nick for ? |
| 10 | Why did you go back to London in the first place ? — why did n't you stay here ? ’ |
| 11 | Why did you Why did you decide on minus three . |
| 12 | ‘ Why did you hold out on him ? ’ |
| 13 | Just sugar and eggs in there , and the card why did you come back for ? |
| 14 | Why did you come back for ? |
| 15 | ‘ Why did you come out into the hall ? ’ |
| 16 | Why did you get out of it ? |
| 17 | And why did you climb in in the first place ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Why did you put up with it ? ’ |
| 19 | Why did you put up with it ? ’ |
| 20 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |
| 21 | ‘ Well , why did he go down to Streatley on the Saturday night , and make such a bloody secret of it ? ’ |
| 22 | Yeah why did he get off with her ? |
| 23 | If it was my master , why did he cry out like a trapped animal and run away from me ? |