Example sentences of "[vb infin] why [pers pn] should [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not know why she should feel such fear , because she felt for her mother not respect , but contempt : and why should she lack courage before someone whose attitudes were to her so transparently , pettily contemptible ? |
| 2 | ‘ I do not know why I should tell you , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Would you bother , editor of Penthouse here , I mean I do n't know why , I do n't know why I should think you know what women want , I guess you know what men want ? |
| 4 | I do n't know why I should burden you with this and make an exhibition of myself in front of eveN– one . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know why you should feel gratitude , ’ Sophie said coolly . |
| 6 | Indeed , you 've been afraid to hold up your end of a rockin' conversation , paralysed by the knowledge that you alone do not possess the second Squirrel Bait album — and worse , you do n't even know why you should possess any Squirrel Bait albums , let alone the second one . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't know why you should want me , I 'm no good , but you do . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know why you should think that . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know why you should think I 'd object to a frisky man , military or otherwise . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know why you should have led me to believe he was some kind of old buffer . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't say I wanted to go to bed with you , but that I wanted to make love to you ; a subtle difference , ’ he chided , ‘ and I do n't know why you should look so disbelieving — you have a lovely supple body … |
| 12 | Do you know why you should seek a massage ? |
| 13 | A lot of the recruits found the orders process hard to take and did n't understand why they should do as they were told . |
| 14 | ‘ But I do n't understand why she should feel … ’ |
| 15 | Being a man , he could not understand why she should sound so doubtful . |
| 16 | She could not understand why he should want to spend so much time away from home and his family . |
| 17 | I can not understand why he should complain : he had the BBC on his side . |
| 18 | I do n't understand why you should feel ashamed when you were the innocent victim … ’ |
| 19 | I do n't understand why you should come alone . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't understand why you should get so wound up about the prospect of making love now , when before you were … offhand about it . ’ |
| 21 | When I left journalism college to come to Woodworker , few of my colleagues could understand why I should want to join such a specialist magazine . |
| 22 | I could n't understand why I should want to leave the relative safety of the house in Fulham to walk into a hornets ' nest of horrified disapproval and rejection . |
| 23 | On the other hand , now I come to think of it I ca n't see why they should go round clanking chains . |
| 24 | Aunt M. nags and nags , and Uncle John said outright that he did n't see why they should have to be responsible for me , when Mother was only half-sister to Aunt Millicent . |
| 25 | She says she does n't see why they should have to go that far . |
| 26 | West Indies , for their part , are simply playing their own game and , since it has made them the most powerful team in the world , can not see why they should deprive themselves of their trump cards just because other countries can not produce trump cards of their own . |
| 27 | The authority to issue cattle vouchers enhanced the power and status of a headman , but many of those assigned to this task could not see why they should take the trouble to inquire into the origins of the cattle concerned . |
| 28 | ‘ Fiona says we can all fit in the Volvo , ’ Rebecca announced , ‘ but Rupert says he does n't see why they should act as bloody chauffeurs for their friends all the bloody time . ’ |
| 29 | My people at the PFA feel that until the League get together and show there is a practical job for me to do , they do n't see why they should let me go . ’ |
| 30 | Well , I reckon that 's a bit of a cheek , really , if you prefer to affirm and swear on the bible , I do n't see why they should challenge why you want to do one or the other . |