Example sentences of "why [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with And , but I was told that English had changed since the time of King James , In that case , I argued , why make us read the Bible ? |
| 2 | That 's more like it , but why has he bypassed the usual channels ? ’ |
| 3 | Why has he got a D T ? |
| 4 | That 's all right , I 'm just why has he got an American flag wrapped around his head ? |
| 5 | Oh there we are , look , he 's dropped it now why has he dropped the look at that ! |
| 6 | However , since Stamp Duty has already been removed from share dealing , why has he set a moratorium on house purchase ? |
| 7 | Why has it taken the Government so long to take even this inadequate action ? |
| 8 | Why has it got a mar and E on the end ? |
| 9 | Why d' ya take a picture ? |
| 10 | Why stop me doing the one subject I 'm ace at ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Then why did we change the name if we were so proud of him ? ’ |
| 12 | But why did we get a reasonable result for the electric field ? |
| 13 | Q : Why did we close a Johnson Brothers factory last year if the brand is so important ? |
| 14 | Why did they choose the ditch and not the road ? |
| 15 | And why did they leave the church house ? |
| 16 | Why did they leave the church house ? |
| 17 | Why did they move the arms in the first place ? |
| 18 | Why did they think the Earth was flat for ? |
| 19 | Why did they choose to omit a particular miracle and why did they change the chronology elsewhere ? |
| 20 | Why did they put the plaque so low down , I wondered . |
| 21 | Why did they put the cat in the window ? |
| 22 | Presently she said , ‘ Then why did they have a row ? ’ |
| 23 | Why did they have a folding table for travelling or |
| 24 | He considered whether he could tell if they were black or very brightly coloured ; and if black , why did they have the brilliance that usually attached to colour ? |
| 25 | If the gang knew you were coming why did they allow the pay-off to continue ? |
| 26 | Why did they need a boat-house ? |
| 27 | Why did she collect the knives and forks and clear the table ? |
| 28 | ‘ And just why did she stay the night in Piazza Pitti ? ’ |
| 29 | Why did she feel no embarrassment or fear at letting her fingers trace down the hair-roughened muscles of his chest to skim the flat planes of his stomach and then move on ? |
| 30 | ‘ If Deveril changed her name , why did she carry the motto of her family with her ? ’ |