Example sentences of "[noun] why [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's now available for only seven shows out of twenty seven in the next programme and only on the first night of each show and only at a cost of two pounds and these are the audience of tomorrow as I wrote to you Mr you neglect these people at your peril why 've you changed the scheme ? |
| 2 | Oi , Millie why do you have to shout ? |
| 3 | Just sugar and eggs in there , and the card why did you come back for ? |
| 4 | she was made of snow why do you think |
| 5 | This carries two great dangers : It risks damaging the UN 's moral authority and reputation for impartiality if it is seen as the vehicle of superpower foreign policy ; it causes huge embarrassment to the UN when , because of its own priorities , the US is unable to help , and the UN is then confronted with the question why have you failed to act decisively in our crisis while you were willing to do so in the case of Iraq 's aggression ? |
| 6 | If anemones are not plants why do they need bright lights ? |
| 7 | So er that 's the way I er had it and s and somebody else asked Mr why did he stop bidding ? |
| 8 | CATHERINE Why did you do it , coming in like that . |
| 9 | CATHERINE Why did you have to go frightening me like that ? |
| 10 | When you 're putting yo together your menu why do you need to consider the staff ? |
| 11 | Q. Why did you ask Colonel North how many Hawks can you get in a 707 ? |
| 12 | Kevin why did you give Michelle that glass cos I did n't wash those glasses , I did n't wash those glasses . |
| 13 | We would only need to witness a marked increase in trade and there will certainly be an increase in demand why do you think trade has increased ? and trade is n't a necessary condition it 's just that trade has tended to grow at the same time as erm as demand is growing . |
| 14 | N. Why do you skate ? |
| 15 | ‘ So , in the name of God why do you want me ? ’ demanded Gabriel in exasperation . |
| 16 | ‘ My God why hast thou forsaken me , ’ echoed the voice of Jesus in the terror of unrelated naked existence . |
| 17 | Q Why have you introduced a mobile phone ? |
| 18 | Uncle has uncle why do you put five Ps in here ? |
| 19 | Nan why do they make him wear the trousers like ? |
| 20 | Peter why do you think the erm the Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution have changed their mind ? |
| 21 | The later term that Freud adopted to this super ego has become synonymous in people 's minds with conscience the idea of the super ego as the the role of conscience and presum presumably that 's another aspect of the same thing and er Serg Moskovicy in his excellent book Age of the Crowd erm which is on the reading list which I can thoroughly recommend in discussing this point of how Freud sees the leader as the kind of super ego of the followers quotes one of the Nuremberg war criminals , I forget which it was now erm Goering or Goebbels or one of these er people who when asked of the Nuremberg war tribunals why did you do the things you did , replied Adolf Hitler was my conscience and that 's er that 's a very erm good example of this idea of er how the the role of conscience can be transferred from the individual to the , to the leader of the group and I suppose Dean you would say erm illustrates one of the greatest dangers of group , group membership because er obviously if if that happens in a group , then erm individuals are to some extent erm surrendering their moral self-responsibility and of course if Freud 's insight is correct , then there was an element of truth in in this in this excuse Adolf Hitler was my conscience . |
| 22 | Why why does it have cos you think of Wales as the land of song why does it happen that if you go to Ireland you have got to sing ? |
| 23 | Albert Why do you want to see your solicitor ? |
| 24 | I mean you can organize every kind of thing why does it have to involve us ? |
| 25 | A caller rang in and wanted to know if gipsies are travellers why do they need a permanent site . |
| 26 | Oh bloody hell why do they have to put such long words in them ? |
| 27 | Gary was like Barry , like Barry Self : a lantern-jawed know-nothing , an unreflecting hedonist , a mastermould of brute conceit who none the less exploits a small but tenacious legacy of charm and luck Why do I bother with my father ? |
| 28 | Just on a technicality why do we need the two like this ? |
| 29 | Why do we why do we use visual aids like the overhead projector and the flip chart why do we use the things at all ? |
| 30 | mum why did they take it to pieces ? |