Example sentences of "but why did [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But why did we get a reasonable result for the electric field ? |
| 2 | But why did they choose to build on their own valuable market places instead of expanding outwards into suburbs ? |
| 3 | But why did they send them to you ? |
| 4 | But why did they go for absolute egalitarianism in the first place then ? |
| 5 | But why did they do well out of them if they were free ? |
| 6 | ‘ But why did she show you ? ’ |
| 7 | But why did it decline ? |
| 8 | ‘ But why did it matter that she teased you , love ? ’ |
| 9 | But why did it happen ? |
| 10 | For centuries the lane served no doubt as a cattle-road , but why did it come into existence at all , and when ? |
| 11 | Singularity , like , later , monogamy , was a difficult thing , a strain , almost an oddity : perhaps that was its appeal for him , but why did it have to be so ? |
| 12 | But why did he stand in the cold , on wet ground , for five or ten minutes ? |
| 13 | Edouard invented that fake message about the museum but why did he send your crook up there after me ? |
| 14 | But why did he want to keep her here ? |
| 15 | But why did he choose to live in Bali rather than England ? |
| 16 | ‘ But why did he choose that ? ’ she wanted to know . |
| 17 | But why did he shout it ? |
| 18 | But why did he feel that there was something more , and why was n't he acting on that instinct , the way that he 'd always acted ? |
| 19 | Dorian liked him , but why did he feel a little afraid of him ? |
| 20 | But why did he feel the need of a gun ? |
| 21 | If he was ill , bad luck , but why did he have to ruin everything for me ? |
| 22 | But why did he have to leave his job ? |
| 23 | Yes but why did he say why 's my grass greener than everybody else 's ? |
| 24 | Either was possible but why did he disbelieve her ? |
| 25 | But why did he come out on to the moor ? |
| 26 | ‘ But why did he come back ? ’ she asked helplessly . |
| 27 | People would say — usually his father — that if he was determined to be an artist , well and good , but why did he spend so much time with books , and silly French novels at that ? |
| 28 | But why did he need seven hundred millions pounds ? |
| 29 | A and again , but why did you shout armed police , was there any particular reason for using those ? |
| 30 | ‘ But why did you do it ? ’ he said . |