Example sentences of "why do he [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was unfortunate when a zoo lost an eagle , so why did he feel so pleased about it ? |
| 2 | But when we tol When we told us they said Oh they 'd have come down to match the nearest competitor , and we thought oh why did he quote up there in the first place then . |
| 3 | Why did he sit there in that most sociable of settings , solitary and apparently with neither need nor wish for company ? |
| 4 | And ‘ why did he go away and leave me ? ’ |
| 5 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |
| 6 | Yes why did he go on to speak about this |
| 7 | ‘ Well , why did he go down to Streatley on the Saturday night , and make such a bloody secret of it ? ’ |
| 8 | Why did he trail round all those dustbins ? |
| 9 | ‘ Why did he disappear right in the middle of the fun ? ’ |
| 10 | Yes but why did he say why 's my grass greener than everybody else 's ? |
| 11 | Why did he grin so much , showing his discoloured teeth ? |
| 12 | So why did he come round and see you ? |
| 13 | Bird Vincent , by all accounts , participated in no national dramas ; so why did he come back , if he did ? |
| 14 | ‘ But why did he come back ? ’ she asked helplessly . |
| 15 | ‘ Why did he come home early ? ’ |
| 16 | But why did he come out on to the moor ? |
| 17 | Yeah why did he get off with her ? |
| 18 | People would say — usually his father — that if he was determined to be an artist , well and good , but why did he spend so much time with books , and silly French novels at that ? |
| 19 | Why did he take so long in cashing it ? |
| 20 | If it was my master , why did he cry out like a trapped animal and run away from me ? |
| 21 | Harvey said very reasonably , ‘ Then why does he go around wearing that ankle-length overcoat with the astrakhan collar ? |
| 22 | ‘ If it 's such a nice little earner , why does he go round prying into other people 's mail ? ’ asked Werewolf . |
| 23 | ‘ Why does he blow out all that smoke ? ’ |
| 24 | Why does he blow so hot and cold , she thought , even within the space of a few hours ? |
| 25 | And why does he hide away on an island ? ’ |
| 26 | And why does he look so happy as a result ? |
| 27 | ‘ Why does he work here ? ’ one of the children asked one day . |