Example sentences of "why [vb past] [pers pn] [vb infin] to " in BNC.

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1	Think about it : why did we go to the cinema , in those days ?
2	‘ Why did we go to Sheen ? ’
3	Erm why did they move to Street , your family ?
4	Why did they come to Moscow first ? ’
5	Why did she have to be born into a mad , slave-driving family ?
6	Why did she have to be so difficult ?
7	Why did she belong to Harriet then ?
8	‘ Why did she turn to Elisha for help ? ’ ;
9	‘ Why did she come to Italy ? ’
10	Why did she come to this country ?
11	‘ Then why did she claim to be ? ’
12	‘ Then why did she lie to me ? ’
13	Why did I want to be a policeman .
14	One Minister comments : Why did I go to York on October 3 to be recommissioned as a Eucharistic Minister ?
15	Why did you go to London ?
16	‘ Why did you go to the trouble of hiring me if what you wanted were the same drab old styles of before ? ’
17	No , why did you go to Cadburys ?
18	Why did you speak to him ? ’
19	What did you why did you move to Harlow ?
20	( ‘ Why did you come to the New World ? ’ one conquistador was once asked .
21	‘ Why did you come to me ? ’
22	‘ Now , Miss Harland , why did you come to this country ? ’ he asked quietly , and smiled at her .
23	For a few moments they moved in silence , then he said , ‘ Just as a matter of interest , why did you come to this party ? ’
24	‘ Very well , then , if you did n't come because of me , why did you come to Slane ?
25	‘ Then why did you come to Oxford ? ’ she demanded .
26	Erm and proceeding to business you know tell me why did you come to Friends Provident in the first place ?
27	‘ Why did you lie to the police ? ’
28	I said to her , Ah I thought that you were going Why did you lie to me saying that you were going to get a book .
29	‘ Why did you lie to me ? ’
30	Tell me , Robbie , why did you lie to me about Hugh ?

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