Example sentences of "why [verb] i [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did I feel intimidated ? |
| 2 | The Doctrine is at best a circular re-statement of the obvious : Why did I experience those vibrations in the air as sounds ? |
| 3 | The next time I see you you 'll be saying why did I eat all that |
| 4 | At the time it might be great and five years later I think , ‘ Why did I do that ? ’ but sometimes it 's the only way of finding something out . |
| 5 | I know if I feel depressed I should n't just sit on my own , you just dwell on it : ‘ Why did I do this , why did I do that ? ’ |
| 6 | Why did I do that ? |
| 7 | I know if I feel depressed I should n't just sit on my own , you just dwell on it : ‘ Why did I do this , why did I do that ? ’ |
| 8 | And I remember being called to Caernarfon once , during the time , asking me why did I have such a lot of surplus of points . |
| 9 | Why did I have this feeling ? |
| 10 | ‘ O God , ’ stumbled the little girl , ‘ why did I ask all these people for lunch ? |
| 11 | The first question really should be ‘ why did I buy this machine ? ’ |
| 12 | Just why did I kill that poor defenceless creature ? |
| 13 | Why do I drink all that beer ? |
| 14 | ‘ In my life , Oh why do I give valuable time to people who I 'd much rather kick in the eye ? ’ |
| 15 | Why do I feel guilty ? |
| 16 | ‘ Every morning when I wake up , I ask myself , If I 'm so damned successful , why do I feel tired and miserable ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I was happy with life last year , and nothing has changed — so why do I feel unsettled ? ’ |
| 18 | Why do I want this . |
| 19 | " Tell me , my little one , my daughter , why do I smell human bones ? " |
| 20 | Why do I just time , why do I do that ? |
| 21 | Why do I do these things , Alice ? |
| 22 | And he said , Now , he said , Why do I do this ? |
| 23 | ‘ Why do I carry all this junk everywhere ? ’ |
| 24 | I er say to myself why do I take some of these jobs . |
| 25 | Why do I pick three pound sixty or three hundred and sixty pennies ? |
| 26 | Why do I say that ? |
| 27 | Why do I say this ? |
| 28 | And you may say well why do I have two pairs of fins , you know , one in front and one behind , instead of , say , three pairs of fins , or one pair of fins , or eight pairs of fins — why do we all have two ? |
| 29 | Why do I have this dream about drowning ? |
| 30 | Why do I need all this detail ? |