Example sentences of "why [vb base] [noun] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why do doctors have such terrible handwriting ? ’ he asked the cat , who had wandered in . |
| 2 | Why do changes like those mentioned above require Government or Local Council action and the work of county planning officers rather than that of individual business people ? |
| 3 | ‘ Why do Beefeaters wear those silly hats and hang around the Tower of London ? |
| 4 | Why do men express such hatred of women ? |
| 5 | Why do fretboards have that kind of uneven response ? |
| 6 | Jenny Lunt , 11 , of Anfield : Why do giraffes have such long necks ? |
| 7 | Why do bands make these amateurish , plodding ‘ live ’ videos ? |
| 8 | Why do stereotypes like this persist not just in folklinguistics but also in modern scientific linguistics ? |
| 9 | Why do people do these things ? |
| 10 | I mean why do people have to kind of , if , if , if we accept for a minute that there 's something in this analogy , this model that Freud is talking about , why do people have this compulsive need to repeat like this , why do they have to repeat history ? |