Example sentences of "why [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why d' ya go if you do n't believe in it ? |
| 2 | Why d' ya ask whether I know anything about her ? |
| 3 | ‘ Why d' you come if you hate the noise they make ? |
| 4 | I simply wish to point out that if it is supposed that Karen Parsons and I embarked that afternoon with the intention of drowning her husband , why did we wait till we had reached a point where our criminal acts were overlooked by at least fifteen witnesses ? |
| 5 | So why did they think that they had the er means to do it in nineteen forty seven ? |
| 6 | Why did they come on raids and why did they burn and steal ? |
| 7 | I was actually quite low on the activists and higher on these three but I managed to wonder sometimes where I worked ever so hard on a session I ca n't really ca n't understand you know why it 's not going very well and I thought well when I then watched other people do something that had a lot of action I thought well why did they like that more and I never I did n't know but I 've actually learnt that you have to put activities in , cos you , you know you do get people with a very strong activist preference . |
| 8 | His tone was perfectly reasonable , affable even , so why did she feel as though he 'd just issued a command ? |
| 9 | Why did she wonder if the wolf could be tamed ? |
| 10 | well why did she come and live down here in the first place ? |
| 11 | The DNA content must be a small proportion of the total , so why did I say that it was raining DNA rather than cellulose ? |
| 12 | Oh , why did you come and disturb me like this ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Why did you come and not the others ? ’ |
| 14 | Leaning on the back of the chair , she asked casually , ‘ Why did you write and tell me you 'd never loved me ? |
| 15 | But why did you try and annoy him ? |
| 16 | Why did you lie and say you had n't met me before ? ’ |
| 17 | Why did you wait until I was asleep before coming to bed on the boat on the way over ? |
| 18 | Why did you wait until you were in Holland ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Why did you ask if I was married ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Why did you insist that I go to work for you … ? |
| 21 | On that view why did he stress that both the label-switching and the removal from the shelves had to take place ? |
| 22 | Why did he conclude that fifty millesimals were better ? |
| 23 | But why did he feel that there was something more , and why was n't he acting on that instinct , the way that he 'd always acted ? |
| 24 | Why did he feel as though he had just run his sword through the heart of something small and desperately struggling for survival ? |
| 25 | This makes me think why did he go & Deane arrive ? |
| 26 | ‘ Why did he stay if he hated it so much ? ’ |
| 27 | And — who was Lord Fiske of the Decimal Currency Board ( ah , glorious corporatist Labour party designation , The Decimal Currency Board ) and why did he say that ‘ All was going well ’ when nobody except the very young or very bright could understand a thing ? |
| 28 | ‘ But why did it matter that she teased you , love ? ’ |
| 29 | And why did it matter if he had ? |
| 30 | Why did it occur when it did ? |