Example sentences of "why did [pers pn] choose " in BNC.
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| 1 | Structured thought which had as its main attributes three themes of course before you had that you had to have a clear objective which helped you to choose what those three themes were , and why why did we choose three as a based on |
| 2 | Why did they choose to omit a particular miracle and why did they change the chronology elsewhere ? |
| 3 | But why did they choose to build on their own valuable market places instead of expanding outwards into suburbs ? |
| 4 | Why did they choose Bill 's car I wonder ? |
| 5 | Why did they choose the ditch and not the road ? |
| 6 | Why did they choose you to tape ? |
| 7 | Why did she choose this particular block ? |
| 8 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |
| 9 | Why did I choose the same piece , The Education of Children ? |
| 10 | Why did you choose Mr Chung ? |
| 11 | Why did you choose that particular course ? |
| 12 | ) . 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 : |
| 13 | Why did you choose modern furniture ? |
| 14 | ‘ Why did you choose Whitely ? ’ the Governor asked . |
| 15 | And why did you choose your pet — for its own attributes alone , or partly because your choice might influence others ' opinion of you ? |
| 16 | Why did you choose to become a fuel technician ? ’ |
| 17 | Why did you choose to move out-of-town in 1988 ? |
| 18 | But why did he choose to live in Bali rather than England ? |
| 19 | But if Gloucester chose to act against Hastings , rather than being stampeded into it by his discovery of a conspiracy , why did he choose to show his hand before his troops reached London and before he had control of the other possible claimants to the throne ? |
| 20 | ‘ But why did he choose that ? ’ she wanted to know . |
| 21 | This would certainly have been within the power of an omnipotent being , but if he had started it off in such an incomprehensible way , why did he choose to let it evolve according to laws that we could understand ? |
| 22 | But if Gloucester chose to act against Hastings , rather than being stampeded into it by his discovery of a conspiracy , why did he choose to show his hand before his troops reached London and before he had control of the other possible claimants to the throne ? |