Example sentences of "why he should [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why he should tell me from day one that you were his girlfriend . |
| 2 | Khrushchev asked truculently why he should care what happened to the enemies of the working class . |
| 3 | Any idea why he should decide to do that ? ’ |
| 4 | I can not understand why he should complain : he had the BBC on his side . |
| 5 | Why he should hold them , why he should so strangely realize them , and above all , why he should have chosen me to be his solitary audience of one , remained a total mystery . |
| 6 | He gave another laugh , its bitterness apparent , telling her that that was exactly true , though why he should hold so firmly to such a cynical view she could n't imagine . |
| 7 | She had said obstinately : ‘ I do n't see why he should chuck his weapons once he knows I 've got nothing . ’ |
| 8 | Bathsheba was about to ask why he should think that , when she remembered the valentine . |
| 9 | Why he should think there was anything special about his troubles , Zvi could n't imagine . |
| 10 | Although why he should think that , she could n't imagine — unless women were in the habit of following him home . |
| 11 | The substantial mortgage was by no means essential , but Mike 's parents had always owned a large , well-appointed home on Sydney 's prestigious North Shore and he did n't see why he should settle for less . |
| 12 | There is no reason why he should treat a new bride any different . |
| 13 | If this is true , ask yourself why he should do so ? |
| 14 | But horses for courses you see there are not an option cos he wo n't move from Scotland and there 's not reason why he should do and so you can forget anybody north of forget anybody in area |
| 15 | But if he believes this a matter for regret , if he believes the decisions that established that " right " were either unjust or inefficient or both , he sees no reason why he should extend the principle underlying these decisions any further than other judges already have . |
| 16 | ‘ I have absolutely no idea why he should make this up , ’ she added . |
| 17 | Old Mr Pascall saw no reason why he should make life easy for a gossiping female and made her hold on , while he sold two ballpoint pens and a packet of rubber bands . |
| 18 | As a bachelor , Adeane had no concept of the intense pleasure fatherhood had brought the Prince , and no understanding of why he should want to spend so much time at home . |
| 19 | She could not understand why he should want to spend so much time away from home and his family . |
| 20 | By the time Roirbak had reached his workbench and had sat down to ponder over whether he could pay Jahsaxa enough compensation to drop Crevecoeur and why he should want to do that for anyone anyway , Mellissa the receptionist fluted her chimes over his commset . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's no reason why he should want to try and ‘ take over ’ , ’ Hitch said . |
| 22 | Why he should want to risk his secret with me , perhaps , next week , let me know it , I could n't imagine ; what the lady was doing out in Ascot gloves , I could n't imagine ; and who she was , I could n't imagine . |
| 23 | I wondered why he should bother to try and establish contact with me . |
| 24 | Yet there were also incentives for Louis IX to come to terms : Joinville reports that Louis replied to his critics , who asked why he should give away ‘ so great a part of your land , that you and your ancestors have conquered , and which has been forfeited ’ , that he had given Henry , Aquitaine , Gascony and the three dioceses ‘ to create affection between my children and his , who are cousins-germain' . |
| 25 | He saw no reason why he should suffer in silence . |
| 26 | Goodness knows , you hear somebody saying sometimes , goodness knows why he should suffer like that , he never did any harm to anyone . |
| 27 | There is no just reason why he should escape . |
| 28 | He did n't burden the uniformed branch with his problems and he did n't see why he should have to listen to Camb 's maunderings . |
| 29 | ‘ All the more reason why he should have been having the full attention of you both , ’ Doctor Staples said sharply . |
| 30 | No claim has yet been made by any paramilitary group about his killing and the Royal Ulster Constabulary said yesterday they were not aware of any reason why he should have been a target . |