Example sentences of "why they [was/were] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were unable to answer the question why they were interred here . |
| 2 | There was possibly another reason why they were kept away from it : the Linotype , hot , clanking and oily , looks like an industrial machine . |
| 3 | One of the doctors in the medical team treating Laura , Dr Jorge Reyes , spelled out why they were going ahead with further surgery . |
| 4 | why they were going past . |
| 5 | He did n't understand why they were making so much fuss . |
| 6 | The live rounds will now be taken away and destroyed , while the police have the daunting task of trying to discover why they were put there . |