Example sentences of "why did you [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When and why did you arrive at that conclusion ? ’ she queried quietly . |
| 2 | Why did you send for him ? ’ |
| 3 | How did you do it , why did you go for it that way ? |
| 4 | Why did you go to London ? |
| 5 | ‘ Why did you go to the trouble of hiring me if what you wanted were the same drab old styles of before ? ’ |
| 6 | No , why did you go to Cadburys ? |
| 7 | Why did you go on a choir outing ? |
| 8 | Why did you go after the story in the first place if your position was n't clear ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Why did you feel like that , do you think ? ’ |
| 10 | Why did you sleep on the table ? |
| 11 | Why did you finish on the dredger ? |
| 12 | ‘ Then why did you pounce like that when I mentioned him ? ’ |
| 13 | Why did you speak to him ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Why did you stay with her ? ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ Tell me , Geoffrey , why did you stay in the Tower ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Why did you move into industry ? ’ |
| 17 | What did you why did you move to Harlow ? |
| 18 | " Jane , " he 'll ask as he signs an expense claim , Why did you invest in this trip to see Pierre Broger in Paris ? " |
| 19 | ‘ Why did you disappear like that ? ’ he asked . |
| 20 | ‘ Why did you change over the eggs in that package ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Why did you realise at Christmas ? ’ she asked , nuzzling her mouth into his warm neck , and thinking it tasted far better than the doughnut she had been dutifully consuming . |
| 22 | ‘ Why did you tense like that when I mentioned Steve ? ’ she asked softly . |
| 23 | They 've been focusing on the relationship between staff and students and so why did you focus on what appears to be the short end of the stick , rather than the major problem ? |
| 24 | ( ‘ Why did you come to the New World ? ’ one conquistador was once asked . |
| 25 | ‘ Why did you come to me ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Now , Miss Harland , why did you come to this country ? ’ he asked quietly , and smiled at her . |
| 27 | For a few moments they moved in silence , then he said , ‘ Just as a matter of interest , why did you come to this party ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Very well , then , if you did n't come because of me , why did you come to Slane ? |
| 29 | ‘ Then why did you come to Oxford ? ’ she demanded . |
| 30 | Erm and proceeding to business you know tell me why did you come to Friends Provident in the first place ? |