Example sentences of "why [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why has it taken forty years for agriculture to be incorporated . |
| 2 | So why d' ya get two high tides a day . |
| 3 | Why d' you want four , why ca n't you have like two today two tomorrow . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | ‘ If they were taking him to the police station , why did they walk three miles . |
| 6 | Why did they wait two days before making contact ? |
| 7 | So why did you bring three tubes of toothpaste with you ? |
| 8 | Ho why did you change four then ? |
| 9 | Why did he appoint two Tory ex-Ministers , the sister of a Tory Minister , the wives of two Tory Members of Parliament and the husband of a Tory Member of Parliament to run opted-out hospitals ? |
| 10 | But why did he need seven hundred millions pounds ? |
| 11 | But why , and the people of this district have a legitimate right to ask , why did it take three people to represent in Czechoslovakia ? |
| 12 | No but I mean why did it take three hours to get him to surgery ? |
| 13 | Why do we need two nurses going round with a medicine tray ? |
| 14 | I mean , why do we need two mathematicians ? |
| 15 | But why do we have two eyes and not just one ? |
| 16 | Why do they have two cuddling each other come over here . |
| 17 | Uncle has uncle why do you put five Ps in here ? |
| 18 | Why do you put four in ? |
| 19 | Why do you say forty-nine ? |
| 20 | Why do I pick three pound sixty or three hundred and sixty pennies ? |
| 21 | And you may say well why do I have two pairs of fins , you know , one in front and one behind , instead of , say , three pairs of fins , or one pair of fins , or eight pairs of fins — why do we all have two ? |
| 22 | Why does it say three disks . |
| 23 | Why had he allowed two days to go by ? |
| 24 | Why had she uttered one word ? |
| 25 | We do n't think we do n't think that the citizens of are doing cartwheels at sixty four thousand pound being spent on a benefit bus to tour round this district and certainly if the festival organisers two years ago could commit themselves to breaking even within two years and were happy with that , why have we spent two hundred and forty thousand pound on a festival in when that money , and that 's four hundred thousand pounds worth of money , could have been spent on the salaries and training of our officers who work in children 's homes . |
| 26 | Why have I got two Helens ? |
| 27 | Sir , why have I got three if I 've got them all right ? |
| 28 | ‘ Why have you got two watches on ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Why have you had three different jobs in the last twelve months ? ’ , 'Why were you made redundant ? ' , etc. , so that you can practise positive responses to them . |