Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [vb past] i [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how did I try to get this influence over working men ? |
| 2 | For that matter , how did I keep going today ? – Again and again you tell yourself , as you place each throbbing foot before the other on the hard tarmac , that the whole thing is monstrous , insane , self-inflicted torture . |
| 3 | why did I bother calling . |
| 4 | But not when they 're eating , here why did I bother giving you a bath ? |
| 5 | Why did I bother to tell her , only to have her shout at me , accuse me of being crazy to wake her up for that and tell me to keep my nose out of her brother 's business , especially since it was nothing to do with me . |
| 6 | Then why did I want to run away from it ? |
| 7 | And why did I mention killing somebody ? |
| 8 | Why did I have to ask ? |
| 9 | Damn , why did I have to go and let that out ? |
| 10 | ‘ Why did I have to fall for a suicidal maniac ? ’ she asked herself , and cleaned the flat from top to bottom to take her mind off the image of Jack dangling on the end of a rope above a muddy slit somewhere in subterranean Yorkshire ! |
| 11 | Why did I have to borrow the correspondences ? |
| 12 | Oh , God , why did I have to forget her wretched dinner party last night of all times ? |
| 13 | Why did I have to rush out yesterday to Foyle 's to buy Psychopathia Sexualis and Eiger , Wall of Death ? |
| 14 | Why did I have to think of it now ? |
| 15 | They are no longer the inconvenient , unwanted , useless and ‘ why did I have to get it now ’ things that they are commonly thought to be but they are actually the manifestation of each person 's attempt to get well , to maintain order and balance in the system . |
| 16 | ‘ Why — why did I have to pack a bag just for dinner when … ? ’ |
| 17 | Then , gradually , her ideas would come together until , sitting on a stretch of grass and stabbing at it with the end of her parasol , she would repeat to herself , ‘ Oh God , why did I get married ? ’ ’ |
| 18 | Erm what wh where were we where did I say find the gradient ? |
| 19 | When did I last wash it ? |
| 20 | When DID I last see ye here in the gallery … let me guess now . ’ |