Example sentences of "why do [pers pn] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the years rolled away , and it was a different room , yet still the same , the room where she 'd had her first ; old white paint with the grudging cleanliness of not quite enough scrubbing ; the sticky rubber mat under her bottom , that made her wonder what other bottoms had lain on it , wonder desperately enough to take her mind off her panic at the instrument 's entry onto her , and the thought , it 's like the first screw you ever had — why do we do it , why do we go on doing it ? |
| 2 | Why do we give away Not only are we incurring the cost of what we 're giving away but we 're losing revenue with people that would have flown with us anyway |
| 3 | They cost just a pound a copy to produce , so why do we pay so much for them in the shops ? |
| 4 | You can just shout out any ideas you have so why do we need well trained people ? |
| 5 | Why do we know how much be ? . |
| 6 | It 's a common disease , so why do we know so little about it ? |
| 7 | Why do we plan badly ? |
| 8 | Why do we require so many staff to do no more than our competitors ? |
| 9 | Why do we see only three space and one time dimension ? |
| 10 | Why do we camp on ? |
| 11 | Why do we have just Alastair 's Letter from America : why not have letters from Moscow , from Paris , from Tokyo , from Peking . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've been a team for ever , and they 'll say things like , ‘ If we 're no going to learn a lot more about this character , why do we have so much about him in the beginning ? ’ |
| 13 | Why do we take on too much ? |
| 14 | ‘ And why do they speak so roughly to their husbands and why do they have so few manners ? |
| 15 | Why do they pretend not to know ? |
| 16 | Why do they stay as Religious ? |
| 17 | Why do they carry on sniffing ? |
| 18 | ‘ So why do they carry on with it ? ’ |
| 19 | Why do they remain so faithful to the Conservative Party ? |
| 20 | Why do they stand out , high above the lower land of Central Scotland ? |
| 21 | Why do they stand aside as British manufacturing industry is reduced , whereas our main competitors in other countries support their industries ? |
| 22 | ‘ Why do they continue so long ? |
| 23 | Why do they go on ? |
| 24 | ‘ But why do they wear so few clothes ? |
| 25 | ‘ And why do they speak so roughly to their husbands and why do they have so few manners ? |
| 26 | And why do they look entirely unfamiliar with the musical instruments they lovingly pluck at every night ? |
| 27 | ‘ So why do they put up with it ? ’ |
| 28 | So why do they put up with the real foreigners ? |
| 29 | ‘ I also took note of the man who wrote to me saying ‘ why do you sigh so much ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ But tell me , why do you disapprove so strongly of my choice of leisure pursuits ? ’ |