Example sentences of "why do [pron] take [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why d' ya take so long in I ca n't be prepared to do all that ? |
| 2 | Why did I take so long each morning ? |
| 3 | Why did you take so long to choose your book Charlotte ? |
| 4 | Why did he take so long in cashing it ? |
| 5 | Why did it take well over ninety minutes ? |
| 6 | ‘ Why did it take so long for the world to wake up to what was going on , ’ she asked repeatedly . |
| 7 | The question becomes ; why did it take so long , not why did it happen at all . |
| 8 | Why did it take so long for manufacturing employment to level out ? |
| 9 | Why do I take as much exercise as I do ? |
| 10 | The starting point is a question which Adam Smith , John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman would be hard pushed to answer : why does it take longer for a carpenter or bricklayeer to earn the price of a pound of meat or a housebrick than it did five centuries ago ? |