Example sentences of "why [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Why has he only given magic mushrooms four for euphoria , when Collis Brownes gets five ? ) |
| 2 | If postmodernism does exist in Britain , how strongly and significantly does it exist , and why has it often been overlooked ? |
| 3 | Why has it suddenly changed since nineteen hundred ? |
| 4 | Why lodge him here thus roughly but not in any great discomfort ? |
| 5 | But why bury them there ? |
| 6 | Naturally enough , this called forth the response , ‘ Why speak ye so of the mirth that is in Heaven ? |
| 7 | ‘ If Plummer was trying to frame you , why send me here to help you ? ’ |
| 8 | Why send me there ? ’ |
| 9 | Why carry you instead , is it ? |
| 10 | But why bring it here ? |
| 11 | I mean to say , Charles is an absolute prick , but he 's been a prick for twenty years , why divorce him now ? |
| 12 | We 've done it since the oldest was five , so why stop it now , a mere 20 odd years later ? |
| 13 | Why take it then ? |
| 14 | Well why , why leave it totally ? |
| 15 | Why bother him now ? |
| 16 | ‘ Why hide it there ? ’ |
| 17 | The Poet himself is aware that his situation may seem repetitive , and in 76 answers the question , ‘ Why write I still all one , ever the same … ? ’ |
| 18 | Why did we always talk of it as ‘ the age of the Grammar School ’ ? |
| 19 | Why did we never see the child ? |
| 20 | Well why did they just , why was it rejected |
| 21 | Why did they always cloak everything , if not with seven veils , at least with one ? |
| 22 | Who were your friends , and why did they so foolishly raid an SS building ? ’ |
| 23 | But why did they ever think a roof on its own was enough ? |
| 24 | So why did she now feel this frightening apprehension — a deep , numbing fear of what lay ahead ? |
| 25 | Why did she always have to fuck herself … |
| 26 | Oh , why did she never meet any nice men ? |
| 27 | And if Heather thought there was something sinister about her relationship with Jack Cornelius — assuming there was a relationship — why did she never ask me if I knew anything about it ? ’ |
| 28 | Why did she never listen to music ? |
| 29 | Why did she suddenly start screaming and scratching , and swearing that she 'd get me ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Why did she suddenly decide to go out tonight ? |