Example sentences of "why [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why throw your life away ? ’ |
| 2 | Why throw away the chance to do something different ? ’ he persisted . |
| 3 | Why should GPs show discrimination against women ? and why emphasize married women with children ? |
| 4 | Why graft your arse off for a full week to make £130 , when you could make £150 for one day 's shoplifting ? |
| 5 | Livingstone 's not going to win anyway , so why kow-tow like this ? |
| 6 | Why hurt the kids ? |
| 7 | Why hurt another girl by pretending an interest he did n't feel when she , Gina , was already on the scene — a woman for whose family he only felt contempt and whose imminent departure was already planned ? |
| 8 | Why shield people who 've treated you like that ? ’ |
| 9 | Why make a Will ? |
| 10 | Why make such a fuss about a few miserable chanterelles ? |
| 11 | Why make such a fool of yourself over this one ? |
| 12 | So why make the foundations permanent ? |
| 13 | ‘ It 's about time England adopted the attitude of : Why make Gazza track back and defend , when we could have other players to do that and let Gazza do what he 's good at . |
| 14 | Why make such a fuss about modernity ? |
| 15 | Why make your executives compromise when they can enjoy driving both ? |
| 16 | WHY MAKE ONE ? |
| 17 | Why make a drama out of a crisis ? ’ |
| 18 | Why make the wet and stormy trek to Otters ' Bay ? |
| 19 | So why make an issue out of it ? |
| 20 | Why make this his only visiting-place in Moscow ? |
| 21 | Why make notes ? |
| 22 | Why make such awful examples of those people ? |
| 23 | I mean , why , why make it the pensioners every time ? |
| 24 | I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with And , but I was told that English had changed since the time of King James , In that case , I argued , why make us read the Bible ? |
| 25 | Why make me pay for what Eddie did ? ’ |
| 26 | To set the problem in more concrete terms , we must seek an answer to the question as to why make and have are followed by the bare infinitive , while cause , occasion , get and all the other causatives are construed with to infinitives . |
| 27 | ( 47 ) Why make so much fuss ? |
| 28 | Why make this latter statement ? |
| 29 | ‘ Why make a fuss , Antonio ? ’ |
| 30 | I always use him as an example when people ask why make travel difficult . |