Example sentences of "why have [pers pn] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the Laboulbeniales seem a likely group to solicit as mercenaries against our arthropod adversaries , so why have they been ignored as potential agents of biological control ? |
| 2 | or not long after so why have they been doing that if there 's nothing much to do ? |
| 3 | Why have we been flooded ? — The gods did it . |
| 4 | Why have I been treated in such a cowardly and despicable manner ? ’ |
| 5 | Husband or wife do get excluded for instance because the marriage has not been a particularly happy one erm and there would therefore be no particular one why the deceased would leave anything to spouses erm but it 's worth saying so if that 's the case , to prevent an action coming along and saying Oi why am I not being there , why have I been left out ? |
| 6 | Why have you been selected ? |
| 7 | ‘ Why have you been sent ? |
| 8 | Why have you been in your last job for such a long time ? |
| 9 | " Why have you been so long ? |
| 10 | ‘ Then why have you been so rotten ? ’ she cried . |
| 11 | ‘ Why have you been running from me , Shae ? ’ |
| 12 | Because when all said and done if at the end of two days you do n't feel that you 're any better at making a presentation then when you started then why have you been here for two days . |
| 13 | Why have you been giving me such a hard time for the past ten minutes ? ’ |
| 14 | Why have you been in detention ? |
| 15 | Why have you been frightened of it mum ? |
| 16 | Why have you been away so many Fridays . |