Example sentences of "why do [indef pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did nobody tell me it was like this ? ’ |
| 2 | Erm , what I found actually er erm even odder , was that is , if the servants knew about her , why did nobody appear at the wedding ceremony ? |
| 3 | Why did everyone sit , breath indrawn , like figures in a tableau ? |
| 4 | Why did everyone accuse him of being cross ? |
| 5 | Why did everyone think she could n't cope with hurt ? |
| 6 | Why did everyone want to put her in the wrong when she had done nothing to deserve it ? |
| 7 | Why did everyone like his father ? |
| 8 | Why did no-one tell me ? |
| 9 | Look , why did anybody move it ? |
| 10 | Why does everyone think emotion has to be messy ? |
| 11 | Nor does anyone else , thought Sara ; why does everyone think they 're so unusual because they never forget a face ? |
| 12 | Why does everyone think I 'm food ! |
| 13 | Why does everyone want me to put L in ? |
| 14 | Why does everyone keep asking me these stupid questions ? ! ’ |
| 15 | Well why does everyone use my packed lunch box , there 's a rubbish bin , it does n't make sense . |
| 16 | Why does everyone seem to hate the Library ? |
| 17 | But why does everything have to fade , drift away like the leaves , grow sober ? … |
| 18 | Why does one feel unease ? |
| 19 | Why does one feel it necessary to make it public ? |
| 20 | Why does one go so much by where people are born , I wonder . |
| 21 | In any case , why does one need traditional grammar to analyse such literary language of the past , if a modern framework can do the job better ? |
| 22 | Why does one ask anything ? ’ |
| 23 | Inaccurate or biased research deserves our criticism , but it is just as important to ask the prior questions of why researchers have chosen to study sex differences so intensively in the first place ( why does no-one study ‘ sex similarity ’ ? |
| 24 | ‘ Why does everybody tell me I ought to watch my drinking when they 're all so busy watching it for me ? |
| 25 | That 's what we were saying , well why does everybody buy to then ? |
| 26 | ‘ But why does anyone tell a lie ? |
| 27 | Why does anyone take drugs ? |