Example sentences of "why does [pers pn] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harvey said very reasonably , ‘ Then why does he go around wearing that ankle-length overcoat with the astrakhan collar ? |
| 2 | ‘ If it 's such a nice little earner , why does he go round prying into other people 's mail ? ’ asked Werewolf . |
| 3 | ‘ Why does he blow out all that smoke ? ’ |
| 4 | Why does he blow so hot and cold , she thought , even within the space of a few hours ? |
| 5 | And why does he hide away on an island ? ’ |
| 6 | And why does he look so happy as a result ? |
| 7 | ‘ Why does he work here ? ’ one of the children asked one day . |
| 8 | Why does it matter so much ? |
| 9 | PJ turns his attention to the US government : ‘ What the fuck do these guys do all day and why does it cost so goddamned much money ? ’ |
| 10 | Why does it light up ? |
| 11 | Why does it light up ? |
| 12 | So why why does it go down to very cold ? |
| 13 | Why does it increase so very much in January and February ? |
| 14 | ‘ Why does it look so — so — ? ’ |
| 15 | The starting point is a question which Adam Smith , John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman would be hard pushed to answer : why does it take longer for a carpenter or bricklayeer to earn the price of a pound of meat or a housebrick than it did five centuries ago ? |
| 16 | Why does it live there ? |
| 17 | So why does she continue so vociferously to float IWC moratoria , and adopt such a recalcitrant attitude towards an industry that is so obviously in decline ? |
| 18 | Why does she rely so heavily on retreating into the past ? ’ |