Example sentences of "why have [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why has everything suddenly become she you 've only been doing this the last few days . |
| 2 | ( Why has he only given magic mushrooms four for euphoria , when Collis Brownes gets five ? ) |
| 3 | Why has it suddenly changed since nineteen hundred ? |
| 4 | But why had nobody ever told her that it was quite impossible to keep clean whenever there were any children about ? |
| 5 | Why had they just ignored Tubby 's report ? |
| 6 | Why had they never told him ? |
| 7 | Why had he ever made that wish about the picture ? |
| 8 | Why had he never seen himself so clearly , he wondered ? |
| 9 | She had a tension about her like a strung bow , and every bit as lethal , and she had a piercing beauty — why had he never marked it , he who had known her nearly three years ? that made his heart contract as he looked at her . |
| 10 | Why had he never got round to building another sonic screwdriver ? |
| 11 | She was normally a very honest person — so why had she just lied through her teeth ? |
| 12 | Why had she even wasted time trying to defend herself ? |
| 13 | And why had she secretly kept it all those years , when she did n't want it ? |
| 14 | Why had she nearly fainted when I had told her about the letter ? |
| 15 | Why had she ever come to town to get herself an education ? |
| 16 | Why , oh , why had she ever started this ? |
| 17 | Why had she ever got involved in that slanging match in the first place ? she wondered with a dark surge of anger . |
| 18 | With the lack of air , the smells , the unrestrained vomiting of a woman in the top bunk ( why had she ever thought they were lucky to get a bottom bunk ? ) it took real hunger and a strong stomach to face food . |
| 19 | Why had she ever opened that letter ? |
| 20 | Why had she never realised before this that Dana had every right to do as she pleased , regardless of how her sister felt ? |
| 21 | Why had she never realised before now that Dana resented looking like her sister ? |
| 22 | Why had she never realised before how eerie the rustling of the trees could be , how creepy the sound of the breeze rattling the reeds that lined the riverbank ? |
| 23 | Why had she never imagined Bella as a redhead ? |
| 24 | She stared at the golden eagle , so arrogantly and eternally poised , and wondered why she had ever thought birds on furniture were a bit off : why had she never bothered to look , why had she never asked herself what her eyes had told her ? |
| 25 | She stared at the golden eagle , so arrogantly and eternally poised , and wondered why she had ever thought birds on furniture were a bit off : why had she never bothered to look , why had she never asked herself what her eyes had told her ? |
| 26 | She had known she liked him , enjoyed his company , his humour , gentleness , so why had she never admitted that she loved ? |
| 27 | Why had it never occurred to him to use it for more than carving ? |
| 28 | But why have they actually said , to ask specifically , I mean , you can understand it in terms of the cars , or something , cos a lot of people are claiming for everything right left and centre . |
| 29 | Why have they never given us the understanding of how to contact this inner voice ? |
| 30 | Why have we only got to do minus , what 's in there ? |