Example sentences of "why had [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But why had nobody ever told her that it was quite impossible to keep clean whenever there were any children about ? |
| 2 | Why had they just ignored Tubby 's report ? |
| 3 | If the house they referred to , thought Rufus , had been Wyvis Hall , why had they not said so ? |
| 4 | But if so , why had they not walked in and asked for it ? |
| 5 | Why had they never told him ? |
| 6 | She wanted to ask , Why had he not come ? |
| 7 | Why had he not excised this passage ? |
| 8 | Why had he not considered that possibility ? |
| 9 | Why had he not thought more about such exhibits ? |
| 10 | If everything he had projected on to Zoser was true , or a true picture of his own feelings , why had he not taken the action upon himself ? |
| 11 | But even so , why had he not come running to find out what was happening ? |
| 12 | Why had he not continued climbing over the gate , said good-night , and gone off down the hill ? |
| 13 | Why had he ever made that wish about the picture ? |
| 14 | Why had he never seen himself so clearly , he wondered ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Why had he never got round to building another sonic screwdriver ? |
| 17 | She was normally a very honest person — so why had she just lied through her teeth ? |
| 18 | Why had she even wasted time trying to defend herself ? |
| 19 | And why had she secretly kept it all those years , when she did n't want it ? |
| 20 | Why had she not consulted them ? |
| 21 | Why had she not realised earlier ? |
| 22 | Why had she not made connections between the secrecy , the silent , passively gloomy , growing of Maggie inside herself and this new , equally secret , growth ? |
| 23 | Why had she not made the connection and what , in any case , was the connection ? |
| 24 | Why had she not received them earlier ? |
| 25 | If the latter — why had she not gone the whole hog and burned it ? |
| 26 | Oh , why had she not told him who she was straight away ? |
| 27 | Why had she not jostled them while feeling her way around ? |
| 28 | Why had she not returned ? |
| 29 | When she got home , she answered an advertisement in the parish magazine for a baby minder ( how simple ; why had she not thought of it before — she was at home minding Charlotte anyway , so why not several more ? ) and offered herself to the Vicar 's wife for parish duties . |
| 30 | Why had she nearly fainted when I had told her about the letter ? |