Example sentences of "why [verb] i [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | why did I bother calling . |
| 2 | But not when they 're eating , here why did I bother giving you a bath ? |
| 3 | Why did I bother to tell her , only to have her shout at me , accuse me of being crazy to wake her up for that and tell me to keep my nose out of her brother 's business , especially since it was nothing to do with me . |
| 4 | Then why did I want to run away from it ? |
| 5 | And why did I mention killing somebody ? |
| 6 | Why did I have to ask ? |
| 7 | Damn , why did I have to go and let that out ? |
| 8 | ‘ Why did I have to fall for a suicidal maniac ? ’ she asked herself , and cleaned the flat from top to bottom to take her mind off the image of Jack dangling on the end of a rope above a muddy slit somewhere in subterranean Yorkshire ! |
| 9 | Why did I have to borrow the correspondences ? |
| 10 | Oh , God , why did I have to forget her wretched dinner party last night of all times ? |
| 11 | Why did I have to rush out yesterday to Foyle 's to buy Psychopathia Sexualis and Eiger , Wall of Death ? |
| 12 | Why did I have to think of it now ? |
| 13 | They are no longer the inconvenient , unwanted , useless and ‘ why did I have to get it now ’ things that they are commonly thought to be but they are actually the manifestation of each person 's attempt to get well , to maintain order and balance in the system . |
| 14 | ‘ Why — why did I have to pack a bag just for dinner when … ? ’ |
| 15 | Then , gradually , her ideas would come together until , sitting on a stretch of grass and stabbing at it with the end of her parasol , she would repeat to herself , ‘ Oh God , why did I get married ? ’ ’ |
| 16 | So why do I want to fall in love again ? |
| 17 | So why do I want to repeat these teenage agonies ? |
| 18 | Why do I want to stay here in this bloody place ? |
| 19 | " Why do I have to wear this stuff ? " he complained . |
| 20 | Why do I have to explain this to him ? |
| 21 | But why do I have to put up with election leaflets coming through my letter box at 6.30am ? |
| 22 | Yeah but why do I have to take it back ? |
| 23 | Why do I have to give myself galloping shingles and chronic insomnia just so as the critic of the Evening Standard can say , ‘ Maureen Lipman is to the world of chat show hosts what Frank Bruno is to the world of petit-point ’ ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Why do I have to give up Tony when you wo n't give Domino up ? ’ |
| 25 | Why do I have to do Work Experience ? |
| 26 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer , Kenneth Clarke tells the programme how she once asked : ‘ Why do I have to do everything in this Government ? ’ and no-one had the nerve to give her the obvious answer — she did n't have to do everything . |
| 27 | Why do I have to do it in the middle ? |
| 28 | ‘ Why do I have to see her ? |
| 29 | Why do I have to carry them around — why ca n't I just remember them ? |
| 30 | Why do I have to conform , to feel real only when I 'm being normal ? |