Example sentences of "why be [pron] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why are you calling me Hummingbird , not Hummy ? ’ |
| 2 | Why are you calling me ? ’ |
| 3 | Why are you calling me ‘ Eric ’ ? ’ |
| 4 | But why are you telling me all this ? |
| 5 | ‘ Why are you telling me this ? |
| 6 | Why are you telling me ? ’ |
| 7 | I mean it 's interesting I mean Cynthia raised that point yesterday , to which the answer , I mean I 'm afraid I have to say th th the glib answer is , why are you telling me you need a minimum number of two members of staff at lunch time , for a full time office in the centre of town , surrounded by bloody phone calls , in school buildings , when you send one single member of staff aged twenty one , |
| 8 | ‘ Why are you telling me all this ? ’ asked Leonora , trying to move away . |
| 9 | Consul John Dimmock said : ‘ Why are you ringing me about this ? |
| 10 | Consul John Dimmock said : ‘ Why are you ringing me about this ? |
| 11 | ‘ Why are you ringing me ? ’ |
| 12 | Even when you 're ringing them , you know somebody that 's got two parcels a week , they 're sort of thinking , why are you ringing me . |
| 13 | why are you buying me |
| 14 | ‘ If I said this to her before her death why are you taxing me with these preposterous allegations only now ? ’ |
| 15 | Why are you wronging me ? ’ |
| 16 | A ‘ light from heaven ’ allegedly knocks him from his horse and ‘ a voice ’ , issuing from no perceptible source , demands of him : ‘ Saul , Saul , why are you persecuting me ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Why are you watching me ? |
| 18 | Why are you stopping me ? |
| 19 | Why are you making me wait like this ? |
| 20 | ‘ Why are you showing me these documents ? ’ he asked when he had finished reading them and passed them to me . |
| 21 | ‘ Guy , why are you showing me this place ? ’ |
| 22 | then we go back to the office then for an hour and people of course will come in then and say why are you booking me but |
| 23 | A white one signifies Why are you fleeing me ? |
| 24 | ‘ Why are you questioning me about Dr Kingdom 's movements , Mr Barnett ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Why are you giving me a present ? ’ |
| 26 | Why are you punishing me ? |
| 27 | Up at the old house , Donald kicked the kettle in a spasm of impatience and said angrily to Jean , ‘ Why are you putting me in a vice ? |
| 28 | ‘ Why are you putting me through this , Dane ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Why are you asking me this ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Why are you asking me ? |