Example sentences of "why [verb] i have " in BNC.

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1 Why did I have to rush out yesterday to Foyle 's to buy Psychopathia Sexualis and Eiger , Wall of Death ?
2 Why did I have to borrow the correspondences ?
3 Oh , God , why did I have to forget her wretched dinner party last night of all times ?
4 They are no longer the inconvenient , unwanted , useless and ‘ why did I have to get it now ’ things that they are commonly thought to be but they are actually the manifestation of each person 's attempt to get well , to maintain order and balance in the system .
5 Why did I have this feeling ?
6 And I remember being called to Caernarfon once , during the time , asking me why did I have such a lot of surplus of points .
7 ‘ Why — why did I have to pack a bag just for dinner when … ? ’
8 Damn , why did I have to go and let that out ?
9 Why did I have to ask ?
10 Why did I have to think of it now ?
11 Why did I have to fall for a suicidal maniac ? ’ she asked herself , and cleaned the flat from top to bottom to take her mind off the image of Jack dangling on the end of a rope above a muddy slit somewhere in subterranean Yorkshire !
12 Why do I have to see her ?
13 Why do I have to come ? ’
14 Why do I have to learn things I do n't want to know ? ’ asked Endill .
15 Why do I have to buy a certificate from the Banco de la Nacion to register my loss ?
16 Why do I have to carry them around — why ca n't I just remember them ?
17 He looked embarrassed , thinking , why do I have to be in on these crises ?
18 Why do I have to tell you ? '
19 Why do I have to explain this to him ?
20 ‘ What I do n't understand , Major Cowley , is that if you know my life is in danger , why do I have just one man ! ? ’
21 He asked himself " Why do I have to cosmeticize everything by translating it into painting ?
22 " Why do I have to wear this stuff ? " he complained .
23 Why do I have to do Work Experience ?
24 Why do I have this dream about drowning ?
25 ‘ Tell me , why do I have to pay my informants a quid or more a time while you have snouts who could buy and sell both of us and who rush to buy you drinks whenever you appear ? ’
26 Why do I have to think like that ? he wondered .
27 Why do I have to conform , to feel real only when I 'm being normal ?
28 Why do I have to give myself galloping shingles and chronic insomnia just so as the critic of the Evening Standard can say , ‘ Maureen Lipman is to the world of chat show hosts what Frank Bruno is to the world of petit-point ’ ? ’
29 Why do I have my eyes shut by the way ? ’
30 Why do I have the feeling that there 's more to it than that ? ’
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