Example sentences of "why [vb mod] i [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why should I want to remember ? ’ |
| 2 | Why should I want to look at pictures of you stuck in little cracks ? |
| 3 | ‘ Why should I want to screw it up . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Why should I want to threaten you , Fran ? |
| 5 | ‘ Why should I want to know where Michel is ? |
| 6 | ‘ Why should I want to make you feel bad ? ’ he retorted . |
| 7 | Why should I choose to feel upset ? |
| 8 | I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ A pretty unwelcome one , as you made more than plain on the phone , so why should I bother making an effort to please you ? ’ |
| 10 | Why should I bother to keep rabbits in hutches ? |
| 11 | So why should I stop working ? |
| 12 | ‘ Why should I have seen Monsieur Guérigny ? ’ she asked . |
| 13 | Why should I have to live in a one-bedroom flat when others have spacious houses ? |
| 14 | Why should I have wanted to kill him ? |
| 15 | ‘ Why should I have changed my mind ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Why should I have feared the sending of your message , Inquisitor ? |
| 17 | Why should I have told you ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Good grief , why should I have to speak like this ? |
| 19 | why should I have to survive it ? my country too you know , |
| 20 | Why should I have to come home ? |
| 21 | And why should I try to throw you off the scent ? |
| 22 | ‘ Why should I get married ? ’ |
| 23 | Why would I pretend to involve myself romantically with a woman whose sister has already wreaked such havoc in my family , hmm ? ’ |
| 24 | Why would I want to talk about them to anyone else ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Now why would I want to do that ? ’ he asked mildly . |
| 26 | Why would I want to do anything that would lessen my chances of making money ? ’ |
| 27 | Why would I want to do that ? ’ |
| 28 | Why would I want to go and wander around on these featureless big sods at the weekend , when I could be rollicking along a precipice on a terrifying , craggy west-coast mountain ? |
| 29 | ‘ Why would I want to go there again ? |
| 30 | Why would I want to cause anyone pain ? |