Example sentences of "why have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why have I been treated in such a cowardly and despicable manner ? ’ |
| 2 | Why have you taken the Bernini lecture away from me ? |
| 3 | Why have you never been able to accept that ? ’ |
| 4 | WHY have you stopped giving details of local real ale guides in What 's Brewing ? |
| 5 | ‘ Why have n't you even opened yours ? ’ |
| 6 | Then one day the foreman came and said ‘ Mrs Desai , why have you packed up ? ’ |
| 7 | Why have you brought him here , Sergeant ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But you 've got to ask the questions : why did n't the other shopkeepers have a problem , why have n't the new owners of the off-licence ? |
| 9 | Mr Gordon Brown , shadow trade secretary , asked : ‘ Why have we had to rely on the Ombudsman to confirm the mismanagement , the maladministration and incompetence that was widely known more than a year ago ? ’ |
| 10 | A particular scene appeared before her eyes : her father is sitting hunched over a pile of torn photographs , and Agnes 's sister is shouting at him : ‘ Why have you torn up Mother 's pictures ? |
| 11 | When asked : ‘ Why have you decided to take such a stand ? ’ he replied simply : ‘ I felt it necessary to put feet on the gospel . ’ |
| 12 | Why have they done it ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Why have we got to go ? ’ |
| 14 | Why have we stopped ? ’ |
| 15 | The second of them in 21.4–9 recalls in its words of complaint the stories of Exodus 16 and 17 in particular , and also Numbers 11 : ‘ Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness ? |
| 16 | I 'm fed up , I do n't make much dirt so why have I got to spend my life cleaning up other people 's ? |
| 17 | ‘ Then why have you developed your powers of hearing so acutely that you are able to detect the click of the gate and the snap of the letter-box , even above the roaring of that vacuum cleaner ? ‘ |
| 18 | So , tell me , why have you brought Nathan Junior here ? ’ |
| 19 | Why have you abandoned me ? |
| 20 | ‘ Why have you got a black eye ? ’ the child asked , a moment later . |
| 21 | ’ ‘ Why have n't you done anything ? ’ |
| 22 | Education — the election debate that never happened Labour and the Liberal Democrats would take our school system back to the bad old days , argues ANTHONY O'HEAR — so why have n't the voters been told as much ? |
| 23 | Why have you come with a suitcase of canned pineapple chunks , asks Sly . |
| 24 | If , as Club Secretary Martin Sinnatt , has claimed in print , breeders are undeserving of ‘ attack ’ by the RSPCA , then why have I seen : |
| 25 | Why have n't host nervous systems evolved resistance to the red gape drug ? |
| 26 | Why have most men lost half their teeth at the age of forty … ? |
| 27 | ‘ Why have you gone into the law ? ’ she used to say to him . |
| 28 | And why have I never heard his name before ? |
| 29 | The earliest , ‘ Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists ? ’ , was written in 1970 ( and first published in 1971 ) and the most recent , ‘ Women , Art , and Power ’ , dates from the late 1980s . |
| 30 | Why have you been selected ? |