Example sentences of "[adv] why did [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ So why did they send you home ? ’ her mum asked . |
2 | ‘ So why did they send you ? |
3 | But they did n't , so why did they want to come to Britain ? |
4 | So why did they think that they had the er means to do it in nineteen forty seven ? |
5 | So why did they want to see Louise for then ? |
6 | So why did its industrial-sector peers only award Hanson fourth place , which left it out of our overall top 20 ? |
7 | So why did she decide to leave after all ? |
8 | So why did she ask ? |
9 | So why did she have this totally irrational feeling that she had surprised him ? |
10 | There was no trace of a smile on his face , so why did she have the feeling he was laughing at her ? |
11 | So why did she feel so irresistibly drawn to him ? |
12 | So why did she suddenly feel so close to tears ? |
13 | He looked perfectly amiable , so why did she get this feeling of apprehension , as though he was playing some sort of waiting game ? |
14 | So why did she want to stay ? |
15 | She looked exactly how she had wanted to look , like a woman who had dressed for a man , so why did she feel so unsure of herself now ? |
16 | It was what she had thought only minutes before , so why did she feel this strange little ache to hear him repeat the sentiment ? |
17 | So why did she find it so difficult to ignore the mocking , taunting comments and treat them with the silent scorn they so richly deserved ? |
18 | So why did she get the feeling that she had n't won the battle , but merely postponed the war ? |
19 | So why did she now feel this frightening apprehension — a deep , numbing fear of what lay ahead ? |
20 | So why did she feel like this now ? |
21 | It was an innocuous question , so why did she suddenly feel as if she were facing the Inquisition ? |
22 | His tone was perfectly reasonable , affable even , so why did she feel as though he 'd just issued a command ? |
23 | She found no difficulty in detaching herself from Leif 's advances , so why did she seem pathologically incapable of breaking contact now ? |
24 | So why did I , as middle-aged and grey haired as the rest , find myself so ridiculously pleased to see them ? |
25 | The DNA content must be a small proportion of the total , so why did I say that it was raining DNA rather than cellulose ? |
26 | So why did I fail ? |
27 | So why did it end with dwindling audiences and a critical drubbing ? |
28 | So why did it recruit its presenters from Tory Wankers Against Taste ? |
29 | So why did it attract so much comment ? |
30 | ‘ So why did it kill them , but leave all of us , and Urnst presumably , alive ? ’ |