Example sentences of "why [verb] [pers pn] [verb] do " in BNC.
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1 | I mean this is something that we could maybe be of help to in fact maybe something that I could be of help to them on because I actually do lectures on public relations how to assess what I mean at a very basic level you want to communicate with press how do you do it but before you do it why do you want to do it . |
2 | Why did they have to do their cooking on a fire ? |
3 | So why , why did you stop doing that ? |
4 | Why did you have to do it . |
5 | Why did you have to do it there for , you know ? |
6 | ‘ Well , if you 're such a fan of Rainbow 's way of life , why did you try to do what you did to her ? |
7 | Why did you agree to do it ? ’ |
8 | Why did he have to do that ? |
9 | Why did he have to do that ? |
10 | Why did he have to do that ? |
11 | ‘ Why do we want to do that ? ’ |
12 | And why do we bother doing one ? |
13 | But why do we need to do this ? |
14 | Why do they have to do that ? ’ |
15 | Why do they have to do this sort of thing during Holy Week ? |
16 | I was having all that done one day and I heard one little girl say to another , ‘ Why do they keep doing her make-up ? ’ |
17 | ‘ But — why do you want to do this ? |
18 | ‘ Why do you keep doing that ! ’ she snapped . |
19 | Why do you have to do it over Marks and Spencers ? |
20 | why do you have do it with that one ? |
21 | Why do I have to do Work Experience ? |
22 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer , Kenneth Clarke tells the programme how she once asked : ‘ Why do I have to do everything in this Government ? ’ and no-one had the nerve to give her the obvious answer — she did n't have to do everything . |
23 | Why do I have to do it in the middle ? |
24 | ‘ Why does he want to do that ? ’ |
25 | Once we adopt this view of teachers or of any other human being , our starting question is no longer why does he/she fail to do X , but why does he/she do Y ? |
26 | Well why have they why have we got to do it she says ? |