Example sentences of "why [vb past] [adv] [pers pn] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | Why had n't they faded with time ? |
2 | Why had n't they gone into all this at the time , really thrashed it out ? |
3 | Why had n't they given it to her ? |
4 | Churchill was a particular hothead and , after all , if the Cabinet did n't condone what had happened , why had n't they authorised an enquiry ? |
5 | Why had n't they signalled they were coming in ? |
6 | Why had n't they told him ? |
7 | Why had n't I guessed ? |
8 | I could surely have bluffed out the running ; it was the standing under the rod that was the important part , the critical part ; why had n't I realised that ? |
9 | Why had n't I asked Flora ? |
10 | Why had n't I gone to gentler old Winston 's place instead . |
11 | Why had n't I felt them when we were pressed together ? |
12 | And why had n't I felt that shock of surprise I should have felt ? |
13 | Now why had n't I thought of it before ! |
14 | Why , why had n't I told Toby about it long ago ? |
15 | Why had n't I told him myself ? |
16 | Why had n't I taken Dottie at her word ? |
17 | Why had n't he waited , at least until her father was home ? |
18 | Why had n't he killed her too ? |
19 | Why had n't he seen through it ? |
20 | Why had n't he wanted to stay ? |
21 | Why had n't he written to me ? |
22 | Why had n't he stayed out of it ? |
23 | If Rohan needed to have a private word with her , why had n't he arranged to see her at the house instead ? |
24 | Why had n't he said so in the first place ? |
25 | Then why had n't he said ? |
26 | Much more to the point , why had n't he said he knew Charlotte Hanover when she 'd asked him to accompany her here this evening ? |
27 | Why had n't he got ? |
28 | Why had n't he shown himself ? |
29 | Why had n't he shown his face ? |
30 | Why had n't he told me what he thought at the time ? |