Example sentences of "and why [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 And why had n't the colonel told her he was renting his house out , she wondered wrathfully ?
2 And why had n't the attendant come and told the foreign autocrat off for coming in the wrong way ?
3 And why did n't the policeman want him to see the suite ?
4 Paul was singing to himself and asking questions of the type children tend to , such as why were n't the birds all blown away during the storm , and why did n't the sea fill up with water with the stream going so hard ?
5 What kept insects extremely small over millions of years of evolution , and why have only a few mammals ever approached the size of dinosaurs ?
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