Example sentences of "[conj] why [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | And why does he look so happy as a result ? |
| 2 | And why does he hide away on an island ? ’ |
| 3 | And why does he never leave the island ? ’ |
| 4 | And why does he sit in her house waiting for her ? |
| 5 | And why had he told her about that unlocked door ? |
| 6 | And why had he felt the need to go on pretending right up until the very last minute ? |
| 7 | And why had he persuaded the director to hire her ? |
| 8 | And why had he said , ‘ Poor Ellie , ’ in that odiously knowing way ? |
| 9 | He wondered what on earth had made him talk like that and why had he told McEllhoney of all people ? |
| 10 | And why had he been so angry and contemptuous , so scathing about her broken engagement ? |
| 11 | And — who was Lord Fiske of the Decimal Currency Board ( ah , glorious corporatist Labour party designation , The Decimal Currency Board ) and why did he say that ‘ All was going well ’ when nobody except the very young or very bright could understand a thing ? |
| 12 | And why did he do it when it was perfectly possible for him to have experimented on any cadaver purchased by him for his medical academy ? |
| 13 | ‘ And why did he go like that ? ’ |
| 14 | At times Anne felt sure that he was attracted to her , but if so why did he never ask to meet her , and why did he conceal these chance meetings from his family ? |
| 15 | And why did he do that ? |
| 16 | And finally , thought Ian as he walked up through the Cathedral stairs from the crypt office , what does the Bishop want two of after Evensong and why did he put the phone down on me when he failed to get the odious Williams ? |
| 17 | And why did he believe Havvie , and not her ? |
| 18 | But why had he come to see our pissy show ? |
| 19 | Hitler had taken on the mysterious Soviets , but why had he chosen to invade Russia and not the British Isles ? |
| 20 | But why had he invited her ? |
| 21 | ‘ He is good-looking , ’ Anne whispered to Diana , ‘ but why does he smile at me ? |
| 22 | But why does he not do something ? |
| 23 | ‘ But why does he keep saying things like ‘ extraordinarily interesting ’ and ‘ indeed , indeed ’ ? |
| 24 | That is all very well , but why does he not come clean and give us Labour 's figures ? |
| 25 | That 's more like it , but why has he bypassed the usual channels ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ But why has he put in the mourning band ? ’ she thought |
| 27 | All right , the fellow has his troubles , Joe thought , but why has he involved Maureen in them ? |
| 28 | If he was ill , bad luck , but why did he have to ruin everything for me ? |
| 29 | But why did he choose to live in Bali rather than England ? |
| 30 | People would say — usually his father — that if he was determined to be an artist , well and good , but why did he spend so much time with books , and silly French novels at that ? |