Example sentences of "why did you [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | What , why did you decide to go to those areas ? |
2 | Why did you decide to take up stamp collecting again ? |
3 | This is an enormous project , why did you decide to pick the summer of nineteen forty ? |
4 | Why did you decide to create Passion ? |
5 | Reporter asks : Why did you decide to search for the sisters ? |
6 | ‘ Why did you decide to serve me ? ’ |
7 | Why did you want to sit there ? |
8 | Why did you want to leave school ? |
9 | That sort of thing , right , and why did you want to use it ? |
10 | ‘ Why did you want to see me ? ’ |
11 | Why did you cho why did you want to have modern ? |
12 | ‘ Why did you want to know ? ’ she asked suspiciously . |
13 | Why did you want to know ? |
14 | Anyway , why did you want to speak to him ? |
15 | ‘ Why did you start digging here ? ’ the Doctor asked . |
16 | Why did you start going out and getting out of it ? |
17 | Then why did you bother losing your sleep if no one can get in ? |
18 | Why did you stop singing that way ? |
19 | ‘ Why did you stop going to church , Bridget ? |
20 | ‘ Miss Osborne is crying again , ’ she said , and asked , aggrieved , ‘ Why did you stop talking to me ? |
21 | Why did you stop playing ? ’ |
22 | Why did you stop working there after twenty years ? |
23 | So why , why did you stop doing that ? |
24 | " Why did you expect to find it in the laundry-basket ? " |
25 | ‘ Why did you expect to find Rose here ? ’ |
26 | ) . 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 : |
27 | Why did you choose to move out-of-town in 1988 ? |
28 | Why did you choose to become a fuel technician ? ’ |
29 | Thankfully they both nodded and her papa said gently , ‘ Yes , but , Daughter , why did you need to disappear ? ’ |
30 | Why did you need to tell me lies ? |