Example sentences of "then why have [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it was not a community crime , if the Pitts had not been slaughtered because they stood out from their fellows in a way the neighbourhood resented , then why had they died ? |
| 2 | But then why had they taken the tutor , T'ai Cho and afterwards released him ? |
| 3 | But if nuclear power was as dangerous , polluting and unhealthy as its opponents believed , then why had it survived so long ? |
| 4 | Then why had he gone this particular morning ? |
| 5 | Then why had he told Gwen he knew her parents ? |
| 6 | ‘ Then why have you developed your powers of hearing so acutely that you are able to detect the click of the gate and the snap of the letter-box , even above the roaring of that vacuum cleaner ? ‘ |
| 7 | ‘ Then why have you changed ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Then why have you got that sort of stiff look ? ’ |
| 9 | If , as Club Secretary Martin Sinnatt , has claimed in print , breeders are undeserving of ‘ attack ’ by the RSPCA , then why have I seen : |
| 10 | ‘ Then why has she gone away ? |