Example sentences of "[adv] why [verb] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present unfair , first past the post system favours Labour most of the time , so why do they complain when it goes against them ? |
| 2 | ‘ So why do they carry on with it ? ’ |
| 3 | yeah , so why do they call him Harry all the time , Harry for a boy , that 's awful I mean a lot of the old names , we talked about the other day , a lot of the old names have come back for children , but I mean I do n't think Harry should be |
| 4 | So why do they put it in household water ? |
| 5 | ‘ So why do they put up with it ? ’ |
| 6 | So why do they put up with the real foreigners ? |
| 7 | But they did n't , so why did they want to come to Britain ? |
| 8 | So why did they want to see Louise for then ? |
| 9 | ‘ So why did they send you home ? ’ her mum asked . |
| 10 | ‘ So why did they send you ? |
| 11 | So why did they think that they had the er means to do it in nineteen forty seven ? |
| 12 | Now why do they have kids parties where there 's smokers ? smoking with children . |
| 13 | Well why did they do it ? |
| 14 | well why did they go down there then ? |
| 15 | I was actually quite low on the activists and higher on these three but I managed to wonder sometimes where I worked ever so hard on a session I ca n't really ca n't understand you know why it 's not going very well and I thought well when I then watched other people do something that had a lot of action I thought well why did they like that more and I never I did n't know but I 've actually learnt that you have to put activities in , cos you , you know you do get people with a very strong activist preference . |
| 16 | Well why do they sit on their foot for ? |
| 17 | She said , well why do they want to live in Exeter particularly ? |
| 18 | Well why do they want me in house ? |
| 19 | Well why do they keep disappearing then ? |
| 20 | Well why have they stopped it now ? |
| 21 | If it was not a community crime , if the Pitts had not been slaughtered because they stood out from their fellows in a way the neighbourhood resented , then why had they died ? |
| 22 | But then why had they taken the tutor , T'ai Cho and afterwards released him ? |
| 23 | They 're so bloody thick , they 're always saying that we dress like tramps yeah then why do they wear clothes with holes in them ? |
| 24 | ‘ If that is true , then why do they fear him ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Then why do they look second-hand ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Then why do they say it ? ’ |
| 27 | If the rumour I heard , that privately the deal was 1.8 million , was true then why do they have to go about making Leeds sound stupid in their propaganda . |
| 28 | Then why did they include it ? |
| 29 | Presently she said , ‘ Then why did they have a row ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Then why did they run for it ? ’ said Michael . |