Example sentences of "why do you [vb infin] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why d' you want to go in ? ’ |
| 2 | Why d' you prefer to return to a treadmill ? ’ |
| 3 | I mean this is something that we could maybe be of help to in fact maybe something that I could be of help to them on because I actually do lectures on public relations how to assess what I mean at a very basic level you want to communicate with press how do you do it but before you do it why do you want to do it . |
| 4 | What , why did you decide to go to those areas ? |
| 5 | Why did you decide to take up stamp collecting again ? |
| 6 | This is an enormous project , why did you decide to pick the summer of nineteen forty ? |
| 7 | Why did you decide to create Passion ? |
| 8 | Reporter asks : Why did you decide to search for the sisters ? |
| 9 | ‘ Why did you decide to serve me ? ’ |
| 10 | Why did you want to sit there ? |
| 11 | Why did you want to leave school ? |
| 12 | That sort of thing , right , and why did you want to use it ? |
| 13 | ‘ Why did you want to see me ? ’ |
| 14 | Why did you cho why did you want to have modern ? |
| 15 | ‘ Why did you want to know ? ’ she asked suspiciously . |
| 16 | Why did you want to know ? |
| 17 | Anyway , why did you want to speak to him ? |
| 18 | " Why did you expect to find it in the laundry-basket ? " |
| 19 | ‘ Why did you expect to find Rose here ? ’ |
| 20 | ) . They 'll ask two-part questions : ‘ What made you leave then , and why did you choose to move to — ? ’ : leading questions : ‘ The company was in a terrible mess then — what part do you think your department played ? ’ ; and ‘ why ? ’ questions which require justification and can be asked ad infinitum : |
| 21 | Why did you choose to move out-of-town in 1988 ? |
| 22 | Why did you choose to become a fuel technician ? ’ |
| 23 | Thankfully they both nodded and her papa said gently , ‘ Yes , but , Daughter , why did you need to disappear ? ’ |
| 24 | Why did you need to tell me lies ? |
| 25 | Why did you have to let her read that ? ’ |
| 26 | Why did you have to do it . |
| 27 | Why did you have to do it there for , you know ? |
| 28 | ‘ Then why did you have to go back for treatment ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Now why did you have to go and do that ? ’ |
| 30 | CATHERINE Why did you have to go frightening me like that ? |