Example sentences of "why did [pron] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did ye come back ? ’ |
| 2 | Why did we do so much better than the pundits and opinion polls predicted ? |
| 3 | well why did they go down there then ? |
| 4 | why did they go like , do you have to do it both together ? |
| 5 | Why d why did they change over ? |
| 6 | But why did they do well out of them if they were free ? |
| 7 | Why did they do so well ? |
| 8 | Why did they do so ? |
| 9 | Why did they appear so anxious ? |
| 10 | ‘ Then why did they come so far ? |
| 11 | Why did they come back ? ’ |
| 12 | When had she ever cared and why did she care so sharply now ? |
| 13 | ‘ Why did she stay on here if she dislikes him so much ? ’ |
| 14 | Why did she feel so worried ? |
| 15 | Why did she feel so much more a person when she was not being virtuous ? |
| 16 | So why did she feel so irresistibly drawn to him ? |
| 17 | Why did she feel so strange , so … ashamed ? |
| 18 | She looked exactly how she had wanted to look , like a woman who had dressed for a man , so why did she feel so unsure of herself now ? |
| 19 | Why did she feel then that the whole edifice was about to crumble and fall down , leaving her exposed and defenceless ? |
| 20 | ‘ Why did she go away ? ’ |
| 21 | Why did she go out and buy that obvious representation of a landscape she wanted to escape , the figures moving noiselessly under the shadow of the mill ? |
| 22 | ‘ Why did she die now , father ? |
| 23 | ‘ Then why did she come back at all ? ’ |
| 24 | ’ Why did she come back from America ? ’ |
| 25 | She found no difficulty in detaching herself from Leif 's advances , so why did she seem pathologically incapable of breaking contact now ? |
| 26 | Well why did she win then ? |
| 27 | Why did I rush out like that ? |
| 28 | ‘ He started going on again about me going into mainstream journalism , how a friend of his had contacts in Fleet Street , why the hell did n't I grow up and settle down like normal girls , why did I go around with Jake . |
| 29 | Oh , why did I come here ? |
| 30 | Why did I come here ? |