Example sentences of "why [vb base] [pers pn] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So why d' ya get two high tides a day . |
| 2 | Why d' you want four , why ca n't you have like two today two tomorrow . |
| 3 | Why do we need two nurses going round with a medicine tray ? |
| 4 | I mean , why do we need two mathematicians ? |
| 5 | But why do we have two eyes and not just one ? |
| 6 | Why do they have two cuddling each other come over here . |
| 7 | Uncle has uncle why do you put five Ps in here ? |
| 8 | Why do you put four in ? |
| 9 | Why do you say forty-nine ? |
| 10 | Why do I pick three pound sixty or three hundred and sixty pennies ? |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | We do n't think we do n't think that the citizens of are doing cartwheels at sixty four thousand pound being spent on a benefit bus to tour round this district and certainly if the festival organisers two years ago could commit themselves to breaking even within two years and were happy with that , why have we spent two hundred and forty thousand pound on a festival in when that money , and that 's four hundred thousand pounds worth of money , could have been spent on the salaries and training of our officers who work in children 's homes . |
| 13 | Why have I got two Helens ? |
| 14 | Sir , why have I got three if I 've got them all right ? |
| 15 | ‘ Why have you got two watches on ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Why have you had three different jobs in the last twelve months ? ’ , 'Why were you made redundant ? ' , etc. , so that you can practise positive responses to them . |