Example sentences of "why [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why did ye let that oul bastard treat ye that way ? ’ |
| 2 | Why did we go this long way ? |
| 3 | erm and I think that if it is pulled down for this new development , in ten year 's time we will look back and we will say ‘ Why did we do this ? |
| 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 | Why did what go wrong ? |
| 6 | Pink 's beautiful feathers grow dull , why did they grow dull ? |
| 7 | And why did they do that ? |
| 8 | Why did they do that ? |
| 9 | Why did they do that ? |
| 10 | Why did they do this ? |
| 11 | ‘ If they were taking him to the police station , why did they walk three miles . |
| 12 | Why did they say that migration occurs even when we have high unem unemployment ? |
| 13 | But if the project 's scientists — and the intellectual giants who ran Britain 's nuclear programme at the time — were n't all that sure about the measurements , why did they call large press conferences ( on 23 January , 1958 ) and flood the scientific press with detailed descriptions of the work ? |
| 14 | ‘ Why did they use such a lightweight to do Darlington 's heavyweight business , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Why did they have pink on it , that 's why it 's called Pink ? |
| 16 | Why did they wait two days before making contact ? |
| 17 | Why did they ask that ? |
| 18 | Why did she choose this particular block ? |
| 19 | It was what she had thought only minutes before , so why did she feel this strange little ache to hear him repeat the sentiment ? |
| 20 | Why did she do that ? |
| 21 | So why did she have this totally irrational feeling that she had surprised him ? |
| 22 | Why did she get any of that cherry stuff did n't you ? |
| 23 | He looked perfectly amiable , so why did she get this feeling of apprehension , as though he was playing some sort of waiting game ? |
| 24 | Why did she say that ? |
| 25 | Why did I feel intimidated ? |
| 26 | The Doctrine is at best a circular re-statement of the obvious : Why did I experience those vibrations in the air as sounds ? |
| 27 | The next time I see you you 'll be saying why did I eat all that |
| 28 | At the time it might be great and five years later I think , ‘ Why did I do that ? ’ but sometimes it 's the only way of finding something out . |
| 29 | I know if I feel depressed I should n't just sit on my own , you just dwell on it : ‘ Why did I do this , why did I do that ? ’ |
| 30 | Why did I do that ? |