Example sentences of "and why [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And why did I do nothing ? |
| 32 | That sort of thing , right , and why did you want to use it ? |
| 33 | ‘ And why did you marry him ? ’ |
| 34 | And why did you drag that poor innocent woman along ? ’ |
| 35 | And why did you start ? |
| 36 | The nineteen who said yes , where are you and why did you vote yes , there ? |
| 37 | And why did you go out on strike in the first place ? |
| 38 | And and why did you go there ? |
| 39 | ‘ And why did you do that ? ’ |
| 40 | ‘ And why did you do that , sir ? ’ he asked . |
| 41 | Well then when they start looking about a bit more , that is when it costs you because anything that Les has to get involved in , cos they go back to Les and say well why did he do this and why did you do that ? |
| 42 | ‘ When and why did you arrive at that conclusion ? ’ she queried quietly . |
| 43 | Just when you and why did you leave ? |
| 44 | ) . They 'll ask two-part questions : ‘ What made you leave then , and why did you choose to move to — ? ’ : leading questions : ‘ The company was in a terrible mess then — what part do you think your department played ? ’ ; and ‘ why ? ’ questions which require justification and can be asked ad infinitum : |
| 45 | And why did you choose your pet — for its own attributes alone , or partly because your choice might influence others ' opinion of you ? |
| 46 | And looking to heaven , I complained , ‘ And why did you let me ? ’ |
| 47 | And why did you hit this car ? |
| 48 | How and why did you adopt her ? ’ |
| 49 | And why did you look at him so coldly ? ’ |
| 50 | And why did you climb in in the first place ? ’ |
| 51 | He thought : And why did you have a gun for Christ 's sake ? |
| 52 | And why did you have them ? |
| 53 | ‘ And why did you come ? ’ she heard herself ask . |
| 54 | And why did he do it when it was perfectly possible for him to have experimented on any cadaver purchased by him for his medical academy ? |
| 55 | And why did he do that ? |
| 56 | ‘ And why did he go like that ? ’ |
| 57 | And finally , thought Ian as he walked up through the Cathedral stairs from the crypt office , what does the Bishop want two of after Evensong and why did he put the phone down on me when he failed to get the odious Williams ? |
| 58 | And — who was Lord Fiske of the Decimal Currency Board ( ah , glorious corporatist Labour party designation , The Decimal Currency Board ) and why did he say that ‘ All was going well ’ when nobody except the very young or very bright could understand a thing ? |
| 59 | At times Anne felt sure that he was attracted to her , but if so why did he never ask to meet her , and why did he conceal these chance meetings from his family ? |
| 60 | And why did he believe Havvie , and not her ? |