Example sentences of "why [pron] do [adv] " in BNC.

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1	I do not remember now how or why I did so , because despite my infatuation I still sometimes thought Dana was a Franco spy , or from the FBI or the CIA or even the CID or the KGB .
2	Abruptly she turned away from him and walked into the apartment 's lounge , not consciously knowing why she did so , but driven by a need to get away from this man and the harshness of his condemnation , which should n't matter to her , because he did n't matter , but which nevertheless called up a churning confusion of resentment and frustration , as well as a new , unnerving hurt .
3	Chapman did not score over the three games and that was probably the biggest single practical reason — among many — why we did so well .
4	And I think another reason why we do so well educationally is that the baby gives them a sense of direction and purpose and they may not want to get 16+ exams but they want to for their baby .
5	Nobody quite knows who decided all these things were dangerous and evil , or why they did so .
6	The reason why they did so was that in the case of man neoteny was an evolutionary trend largely in the service of ego and superego development .
7	I wonder why they do all this in Christmas week ?
8	To understand why they do so , it is necessary to consider , at least briefly , the nature of a long-term fund 's liabilities .
9	Thus , although people do change their behaviour , habits , beliefs and lifestyles , why they do so is unclear .
10	To explain why it does so is quite another matter .
11	Yeah , I du n no why it does actually .
12	I do n't fully understand why he does so much to distance me .
13	I asked him why he did once and he said it was a more beautiful name .
14	Chapter Five argued that the main problem in discussing the peasant question in the reign of Nicholas I is explaining why he addressed himself to it at all , not why he did relatively little .

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