Example sentences of "why [be] you [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And why are you calling from so far away ? |
| 2 | ‘ Why are you acting like this ? ’ |
| 3 | Why are you pouting like that ? |
| 4 | Why are you auditioning for West Side Story ? |
| 5 | ‘ Why are you writing to Richard instead of telephoning him ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ asked Sikes , uneasy at the old man 's strange expression . |
| 7 | Why are you looking at York |
| 8 | ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ she asked abruptly . |
| 9 | ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ asked Leonora . |
| 10 | Impulsively she asked , ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ and immediately regretted having spoken her thoughts aloud . |
| 11 | Why are you looking at me like that ? |
| 12 | Why are you looking for another job ? |
| 13 | Then : ‘ Why are you looking for him ? ’ |
| 14 | She put out a hand and touched him on the sleeve , but he moved back as if he had n't noticed , and she said on a rising note , ‘ Why are you looking like that ? ’ |
| 15 | Why are you looking like that ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Why are you called after Glencoe , a horrible place in Scotland ? ’ |
| 17 | Why are you hiding from me ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Why are you hiding in the cupboard , Finn ? ’ she asked like a mother to an inexplicable child at the end of a hard day . |
| 19 | Why are you sending to it with that ? |
| 20 | ‘ Why are you speaking to me like this ? |
| 21 | Why are you speaking in stereo ? |
| 22 | WHY ARE YOU APOLOGIZING TO ME ? |
| 23 | ‘ Why are you living in a brothel ? ’ |
| 24 | And why are you dressed like that ? ’ |
| 25 | Why are you picking on me ? |
| 26 | and like the thing is obviously like the first realise there on a and they try to stop it , why are you stopping for , remember you are in the British army , if you disobey orders you 'll get a court marshall really started laying onto them , and like they 've started again and like the first bloke obviously got to the fucking water , cos he 's stopped again , one man one sides shouting out and round the other side shouting out and they have they 've all gone in , they must of thought fuck it and they 've all just fucking marched into the sea , and we marched them in , tent was only about that much above water , and we 've lasted thought , this is the thing that got me , he , he shouted at him , cos we , we , we managed to get them and that , he said right , right , go in , go in and tell them to come out , what , I said what , can you just pop in and tell them to come out , I said over here sarge , he said you disobey an order |
| 27 | you 're stopping , why are you stopping in front of them for ? |
| 28 | Which you could turn you could legitimately turn to people and say why are you leaning on me so hard for all this support ? |
| 29 | Mm , mm its one of the great arguments from the old fashioned sort of religion , that you could turn , you could definitely turn to people and say why are you leaning on me so hard , for all this to fought , you ought to be reading your bible , saying your prayers , going to church and getting in touch with the boss why I laughed when they were saying that Terry Waite would need counselling , I bet that Terry Waite was praying his head off and he 'd memorised masses of the bible which he would be reciting to himself probably set himself two o'clock every afternoon , I remember what I can , book of you know I do n't suppose he 'd needed any counselling , he 'd probably do better counselling other people . |
| 30 | Listen with a purpose — why are you listening to this lecture ? |