Example sentences of "[adv] why [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was normally a very honest person — so why had she just lied through her teeth ? |
| 2 | She had known she liked him , enjoyed his company , his humour , gentleness , so why had she never admitted that she loved ? |
| 3 | We 've done it since the oldest was five , so why stop it now , a mere 20 odd years later ? |
| 4 | Disposable society : So why do we still hear clamour from the environmentally conscious that plastics represent everything bad in our disposable society ? |
| 5 | Big women can wear jeans , so why do they never show it ? |
| 6 | No , Owen does n't , O N , O M does n't , so why do they always phone me up with their problems ? |
| 7 | So why do they now need £1.25 million ? |
| 8 | So why did she now feel this frightening apprehension — a deep , numbing fear of what lay ahead ? |
| 9 | So why did she suddenly feel so close to tears ? |
| 10 | It was an innocuous question , so why did she suddenly feel as if she were facing the Inquisition ? |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Er now why did you actually move to the flats ? |
| 13 | Of course , if she found the right man , and she loved him — Now why did she suddenly think of David Kent ? |
| 14 | Well why ask me now ? |
| 15 | Well why did they just , why was it rejected |
| 16 | Well why do we then shove it in a stupid s four o'clock job ? |
| 17 | Well why do you usually shop there , in Next ? |
| 18 | Well why put it right at the back ? |
| 19 | Then why do I always feel as if I am falling off the edge of a cliff ? |
| 20 | That 's right , I mean why di why have we got the structure of agriculture as we have , you know why why do we still have an atomistical industry right , it 's not just a , a freak of nature , there are economic laws , erm , and opinion that s , that structure the industry and it 's because you just do n't get economies of scale staying in agriculture . |