Example sentences of "why [adv] do [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why exactly do you want to leave home so badly ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , but Finn , why ever does he want you |
| 3 | Why ever did we marry so young , they asked one another . |
| 4 | " Well , then , " she continued , with what seemed to her to be the very height of aware sophistication , " why ever did you want to come here on this sort of trip ? " |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , Richard , why ever did you stay with such a woman ? ’ she murmured . |
| 6 | Why ever did you go to the funeral ? ’ |
| 7 | Why ever did you do that ? ’ |
| 8 | Why ever did you do it ? |
| 9 | Why ever did he bother to write them out ? the landlady asked , gravely vexed and insulted . |
| 10 | I know , but she 's still got a cracking bust that 's why How did you get on with your table tennis this afternoon ? |
| 11 | Why then does it matter at what point in time the property passes ? |
| 12 | Okay so wh why then do we go from the May the fourth erm directive into this specific idea of , of egalitarianism ? |
| 13 | Why then do we need two words , which help us to distinguish nationalism from ethnicity , though both are so closely identified today ? |
| 14 | Why then do they think it is so bad for parents and only those who can afford it paying a little extra to ensure their children get a well-funded education ? |
| 15 | Why do tyre retailers not say they are ( on the whole ) owned by tyre manufacturers , and why then do they sell competitors ' products ? |
| 16 | Why then do I remain seated for Sally Field , in soft focus , gulping back emotion , Sigourney Weaver groping for emotion — any emotion — and Kathleen Turner proving once again that she ca n't open a fridge door without flexing a buttock . |
| 17 | Given the clarity of your diagnosis , why then do you waffle when offering recommendations for reform ? |
| 18 | Why then do you support them ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Why then do you say to me : ‘ Be like the majority of people ? ' ’ |
| 20 | Why then did they seal off an area of Tottenham more than one mile across ? |
| 21 | Why then did you write this book ? |
| 22 | Why then did you put over a hundred thousand pounds in that budget in the first place ? |
| 23 | Why then did he admire them , and collect them so avidly ? |
| 24 | ‘ Why else does he want you and the hunt to cross paths ? |
| 25 | Why else do we ensure that when they retire they receive subsistence-level pensions ? |
| 26 | Why else do we insist that older people can not be employed after a certain age ? |
| 27 | ‘ Why else do you think ? |
| 28 | Why else do you suppose we have two arms ? " |
| 29 | Why else did you think I sent for you — to discuss the weather ? ’ |
| 30 | Why else did you send the release out ? |