Example sentences of "why did [pron] have " in BNC.

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1 Marlon : Why did we have to come shopping ?
2 Presently she said , ‘ Then why did they have a row ? ’
3 Why did they have to die ! ’
4 Why did they have — ’
5 He considered whether he could tell if they were black or very brightly coloured ; and if black , why did they have the brilliance that usually attached to colour ?
6 Why did they have to do their cooking on a fire ?
7 Why did they have a folding table for travelling or
8 Why did they have pink on it , that 's why it 's called Pink ?
9 Why did she have to be born into a mad , slave-driving family ?
10 ‘ We 're not — we 're not them — ’ Why did she have to use such pinnacles of perfection to lure them with ?
11 Barbara thought , why did she have to bring Peter into it ?
12 Why did she have to meet the wrong man , and one who was so strongly attracted to her ?
13 So why did she have this totally irrational feeling that she had surprised him ?
14 There was no trace of a smile on his face , so why did she have the feeling he was laughing at her ?
15 Why did she have to appear on the scene and spoil everything ?
16 Why did she have to get herself mixed up in a thing like this on her first day in London ?
17 Why did she have to rise to his taunts ?
18 Why did she have to keep crossing swords with that fiendish man ?
19 God 's blood , why did she have to look so damned vulnerable ?
20 Why did she have to respond so to his gentleness ?
21 Now why did she have to blab that piece of information ? she wondered , becoming thoroughly irritated with herself .
22 Why did she have to be so difficult ?
23 Why did she have to die ?
24 Why did she have the feeling that he knew something she did n't ?
25 Why did she have the sudden feeling that she was no longer in control ?
26 Why did I have to rush out yesterday to Foyle 's to buy Psychopathia Sexualis and Eiger , Wall of Death ?
27 Why did I have to borrow the correspondences ?
28 Oh , God , why did I have to forget her wretched dinner party last night of all times ?
29 They are no longer the inconvenient , unwanted , useless and ‘ why did I have to get it now ’ things that they are commonly thought to be but they are actually the manifestation of each person 's attempt to get well , to maintain order and balance in the system .
30 Why did I have this feeling ?
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