Example sentences of "why did [adj] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But why did that lead you to imagine you could find drugs here ? ’ |
| 2 | We all know that the poll tax does not have a friend in 1991 , so why did that tax have so many friends in 1987 and afterwards ? |
| 3 | He obviously knew about David Harland , but why did that make him so cross ? |
| 4 | So why did that thread of excitement in his voice frighten her ? |
| 5 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 6 | Which I think how , why did that happen ? |
| 7 | Why did that name seem familiar ? |
| 8 | Why did that queen , Angus , tread on my laugh on Saturday ? |
| 9 | Another thing — why did another machine with an electric motor make slight loops , occasionally on the right of the machine only ? |
| 10 | They 'll say well why did this cheque do so and so and why did this do so and so and like he said well when you 're talking about forty eight pound an hour you do n't want me poking round there trying to sort out the tax man |
| 11 | Why did this man he had just begun to believe had no interest in him have to have chosen that book among the dozens of others ? |
| 12 | Why did this man have such an effect on her ? |
| 13 | Why did this interest in decoration vanish in our century ? |
| 14 | ‘ Why did this have to happen ? |
| 15 | Why did this have to happen ? " |
| 16 | Why did this have to happen now , when she was in such a hurry to get back for Emily ? |
| 17 | She 's so beautiful , and why did this happen ? |
| 18 | Why did this happen ? |
| 19 | But why did this happen ? |
| 20 | Already knocked off balance by a cocktail of negative emotions , the betrayed wife is then shattered by unanswerable questions : Why did this happen ? |
| 21 | Why did this happen ? |