Example sentences of "why [adv] do [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Why exactly do you want to leave home so badly ? ’ |
2 | But … if , as they say , this is all in the mind , ie it is all down to your guilty conscience — excuse the expression — why not do something about it ? |
3 | Why not do something ? |
4 | Why not do something daring and take the Local Government Chronicle ? |
5 | ‘ Why not do it at 'ome ? ’ |
6 | ‘ Why not do it yourself ? ’ |
7 | Why not do it and leave it ready the day before , then all that is needed is one minute to set the garter carriage in operation and you will come home to a sleeve which only has to be cast off . |
8 | Microsoft may have decided not to bundle SQL Server directly in order maintain good relations with other database suppliers , ‘ but why not do it the other way around ? ’ asks Schuster . |
9 | Microsoft may have decided not to bundle SQL Server directly in order maintain good relations with other database suppliers , ‘ but why not do it the other way around ? ’ asks Schuster . |
10 | So why not do it with Xs , because there 's more chance of an error . |
11 | And then he began to think , why not do it , why not ? |
12 | So why not do it then ? |
13 | Why not do it at home , away from the distractions of the office , is the important thing . |
14 | ‘ Oh , but Finn , why ever does he want you |
15 | Why ever did we marry so young , they asked one another . |
16 | Why ever did you do that ? ’ |
17 | Why ever did you go to the funeral ? ’ |
18 | " Well , then , " she continued , with what seemed to her to be the very height of aware sophistication , " why ever did you want to come here on this sort of trip ? " |
19 | Why ever did you do it ? |
20 | ‘ Oh , Richard , why ever did you stay with such a woman ? ’ she murmured . |
21 | Why ever did he bother to write them out ? the landlady asked , gravely vexed and insulted . |
22 | Why also do we nearly always play without someone on the wing ? |
23 | I know , but she 's still got a cracking bust that 's why How did you get on with your table tennis this afternoon ? |
24 | Why How did your brothers manage to do the same job as he did ? |
25 | Why then does it not eventually become an exact facsimile of that mother ? |
26 | Why then does it matter at what point in time the property passes ? |
27 | Why then do their minds go blank as soon as they turn over the question paper ? |
28 | Why then do we not take the same laid-back attitude if someone says ‘ I am in pain … ’ ? |
29 | Why then do we need two words , which help us to distinguish nationalism from ethnicity , though both are so closely identified today ? |
30 | Okay so wh why then do we go from the May the fourth erm directive into this specific idea of , of egalitarianism ? |