Example sentences of "why did [pers pn] [verb] to " in BNC.
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1 | Think about it : why did we go to the cinema , in those days ? |
2 | ‘ Why did we go to Sheen ? ’ |
3 | Erm why did they move to Street , your family ? |
4 | Why did they come to Moscow first ? ’ |
5 | Why did she have to be born into a mad , slave-driving family ? |
6 | Why did she have to be so difficult ? |
7 | Why did she belong to Harriet then ? |
8 | ‘ Why did she turn to Elisha for help ? ’ ; |
9 | ‘ Why did she come to Italy ? ’ |
10 | Why did she come to this country ? |
11 | ‘ Then why did she claim to be ? ’ |
12 | ‘ Then why did she lie to me ? ’ |
13 | Why did I want to be a policeman . |
14 | One Minister comments : Why did I go to York on October 3 to be recommissioned as a Eucharistic Minister ? |
15 | Why did you go to London ? |
16 | ‘ Why did you go to the trouble of hiring me if what you wanted were the same drab old styles of before ? ’ |
17 | No , why did you go to Cadburys ? |
18 | Why did you speak to him ? ’ |
19 | What did you why did you move to Harlow ? |
20 | ( ‘ Why did you come to the New World ? ’ one conquistador was once asked . |
21 | ‘ Why did you come to me ? ’ |
22 | ‘ Now , Miss Harland , why did you come to this country ? ’ he asked quietly , and smiled at her . |
23 | For a few moments they moved in silence , then he said , ‘ Just as a matter of interest , why did you come to this party ? ’ |
24 | ‘ Very well , then , if you did n't come because of me , why did you come to Slane ? |
25 | ‘ Then why did you come to Oxford ? ’ she demanded . |
26 | Erm and proceeding to business you know tell me why did you come to Friends Provident in the first place ? |
27 | ‘ Why did you lie to the police ? ’ |
28 | I said to her , Ah I thought that you were going Why did you lie to me saying that you were going to get a book . |
29 | ‘ Why did you lie to me ? ’ |
30 | Tell me , Robbie , why did you lie to me about Hugh ? |