Example sentences of "why did it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | Why did it bother at all ? |
2 | So why did it end with dwindling audiences and a critical drubbing ? |
3 | Why — why — why ? she had asked herself over and over again , why did it end that way ? |
4 | And why did it matter if he had ? |
5 | Why did it matter so much where you were buried ? |
6 | And if she did slip away , why did it matter to him ? |
7 | ‘ But why did it matter that she teased you , love ? ’ |
8 | But why did it decline ? |
9 | Why did it decline ? |
10 | W why did it make it purple ? |
11 | So why did it disturb him with Deana ? |
12 | And that PS , ‘ She is spotlessly clean ’ — why did it startle me so ? |
13 | Why did it hurt to learn that it had been the machinations of others that had brought them together this time ? |
14 | And if that word , if that tiny little word did n't really mean anything , why did it hurt so much that he had n't used it ? |
15 | ‘ So why did it go wrong ? ’ she asked a little bitterly . |
16 | ‘ Why did it go wrong ? ’ |
17 | Why did it break ? ’ |
18 | So why did it attract so much comment ? |
19 | Why did it build up ? |
20 | She had actually thought of asking for no less than John now proposed ; so why did it feel like a slap in the face ? |
21 | Why did it feel so right to have Luke stroke his hand along the curve of her thigh , to feel it slide up over her hip and dip into the hollow of her waist before moving on to the fullness of her breast ? |
22 | If the government 's hands were clean , why did it insist on hiding them behind its back ? |
23 | So why did it recruit its presenters from Tory Wankers Against Taste ? |
24 | Why did it become an ‘ unregarded ’ art , as you call it in your Introduction ? |
25 | Oh , why did it have to be so hard ? |
26 | Why did it have to make her feel so horrid and ashamed ? |
27 | Why did it have to bother him so much ? |
28 | Why did it have a question mark ? |
29 | Singularity , like , later , monogamy , was a difficult thing , a strain , almost an oddity : perhaps that was its appeal for him , but why did it have to be so ? |
30 | Why did it have to be so far off the ground ? |