Example sentences of "why did [pers pn] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Now why did we did we subtract this three from that five .
2 But why did they send them to you ?
3 I suddenly wondered , why did they send him on that Adventuring course ?
4 ‘ So why did they send you home ? ’ her mum asked .
5 ‘ So why did they send you ?
6 Why did they shift you down here ? ’
7 Why did they choose you to tape ?
8 Why did they kick him out ?
9 " If they went to all that trouble to take out the clothes labels , why did they leave his face untouched ?
10 Why did they think it was flat ?
11 If you were ill , why did they make you go away ? ’
12 Why did they make you chairman ? ’ asked Milton .
13 Why did they want him on this particular job ?
14 Why did they build them on the top of hills ? ’ she asked Christopher .
15 Why did they do it ?
16 Since , as we have seen , both were bound on pain of dreadful punishments not to reveal the secrets of their Order , why did they do it ?
17 Why did they do it ?
18 Why did they do it ?
19 Why did they do it ?
20 Well why did they do it ?
21 Why did they blow it ? … ’
22 Why did they take it a stage further with him ?
23 mum why did they take it to pieces ?
24 Then why did they include it ?
25 Why did they let me ?
26 Why did they hit you , Marie ? ’
27 Why did they say you would tell me about Van Gogh ? "
28 erm Sam Sodding , and it used to , but I used to say to mother why did they call him Sam Sodding ?
29 Oh I ca n't tell you that I would n't never discuss things like that , until I got about twenty five , you know neighbours or not , and I said why did they call him ?
30 Why did they call you Charlie ? ’
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