Example sentences of "why [vb past] she [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did she not experience the usual terror at being shut in a small enclosed space ? |
| 2 | Then why did she not agree to it ? |
| 3 | But why did she not write ? |
| 4 | So why did she now feel this frightening apprehension — a deep , numbing fear of what lay ahead ? |
| 5 | Why did she always have to fuck herself … |
| 6 | Oh , why did she never meet any nice men ? |
| 7 | Why did she never listen to music ? |
| 8 | And if Heather thought there was something sinister about her relationship with Jack Cornelius — assuming there was a relationship — why did she never ask me if I knew anything about it ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Why did she suddenly decide to go out tonight ? |
| 10 | Why did she suddenly think of David Kent ? |
| 11 | Of course , if she found the right man , and she loved him — Now why did she suddenly think of David Kent ? |
| 12 | So why did she suddenly feel so close to tears ? |
| 13 | It was an innocuous question , so why did she suddenly feel as if she were facing the Inquisition ? |
| 14 | Why did she suddenly start screaming and scratching , and swearing that she 'd get me ? ’ |
| 15 | She was normally a very honest person — so why had she just lied through her teeth ? |
| 16 | Why had she even wasted time trying to defend herself ? |
| 17 | And why had she secretly kept it all those years , when she did n't want it ? |
| 18 | Why had she not consulted them ? |
| 19 | Why had she not realised earlier ? |
| 20 | Why had she not made connections between the secrecy , the silent , passively gloomy , growing of Maggie inside herself and this new , equally secret , growth ? |
| 21 | Why had she not made the connection and what , in any case , was the connection ? |
| 22 | Why had she not received them earlier ? |
| 23 | If the latter — why had she not gone the whole hog and burned it ? |
| 24 | Oh , why had she not told him who she was straight away ? |
| 25 | Why had she not jostled them while feeling her way around ? |
| 26 | Why had she not returned ? |
| 27 | When she got home , she answered an advertisement in the parish magazine for a baby minder ( how simple ; why had she not thought of it before — she was at home minding Charlotte anyway , so why not several more ? ) and offered herself to the Vicar 's wife for parish duties . |
| 28 | Why had she nearly fainted when I had told her about the letter ? |
| 29 | Why had she ever come to town to get herself an education ? |
| 30 | Why , oh , why had she ever started this ? |