Example sentences of "but why did [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | But why did we get a reasonable result for the electric field ? |
2 | As Mrs Robson said , people had taken to war like they did to life : they had accepted it and were living with it and with all the things it did to them ; but why did them up top have to go and stop the flower trains coming from Cornwall ? |
3 | But why did they ever think a roof on its own was enough ? |
4 | But why did they … ? " |
5 | But why did they choose to build on their own valuable market places instead of expanding outwards into suburbs ? |
6 | But why did they send them to you ? |
7 | But why did they do well out of them if they were free ? |
8 | But why did they go for absolute egalitarianism in the first place then ? |
9 | But why did she not write ? |
10 | She felt responsible for Dana , but why did she ? |
11 | ‘ But why did she show you ? ’ |
12 | ‘ But why did she ? ’ |
13 | ‘ No , ’ said the boy , ‘ but why did his wife say he was up on the roof if he was n't ? ’ |
14 | But why did it decline ? |
15 | But why did it all have to be so messy and complicated ? |
16 | Singularity , like , later , monogamy , was a difficult thing , a strain , almost an oddity : perhaps that was its appeal for him , but why did it have to be so ? |
17 | For centuries the lane served no doubt as a cattle-road , but why did it come into existence at all , and when ? |
18 | ‘ But why did it matter that she teased you , love ? ’ |
19 | But why did it happen ? |
20 | If he was ill , bad luck , but why did he have to ruin everything for me ? |
21 | But why did he choose to live in Bali rather than England ? |
22 | People would say — usually his father — that if he was determined to be an artist , well and good , but why did he spend so much time with books , and silly French novels at that ? |
23 | But why did he have to leave his job ? |
24 | ‘ But why did he choose that ? ’ she wanted to know . |
25 | But why did he feel that there was something more , and why was n't he acting on that instinct , the way that he 'd always acted ? |
26 | ‘ But why did he ? ’ asked Scarlet again . |
27 | Dorian liked him , but why did he feel a little afraid of him ? |
28 | Edouard invented that fake message about the museum but why did he send your crook up there after me ? |
29 | But why did he feel the need of a gun ? |
30 | Either was possible but why did he disbelieve her ? |