Example sentences of "why do [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Why did you ever ask ? |
| 32 | Then he said , " If you thought it was so bloody good , why did you only read one page ? " |
| 33 | He strode to her , eyes blazing , and shouted , ‘ Why did you specifically come to see me the minute you found out I had my own investment bank ? ’ |
| 34 | Why did he rather walk entirely unprotected , apart from the body armour . |
| 35 | Why did he always choose to lose his temper over issues in which he was in the wrong ? |
| 36 | Why did he always have to work alone ? |
| 37 | Why did he always feel so intimidated by Viola Machin ? |
| 38 | Why did he always want to go the long way round . |
| 39 | Why did he always make her want to cry ? |
| 40 | Why did he always go for those parts , those double entendres ? |
| 41 | Why did he now want it back ? |
| 42 | ‘ Why did he never want to marry me ? ’ |
| 43 | At times Anne felt sure that he was attracted to her , but if so why did he never ask to meet her , and why did he conceal these chance meetings from his family ? |
| 44 | They said at the trial that he was a kind husband , a good neighbour — why did he suddenly do this terrible thing ? |
| 45 | Why did he suddenly do that ? |
| 46 | If Iran was provoked , why did it also go so publicly out of its way to stress its respect for Iraq 's territorial integrity ? |
| 47 | Why did it always have to be the trumpet-player ? |
| 48 | Why do we generally make wine from grapes rather than any other fruit ? |
| 49 | But if our views are coloured by prejudice and familiarity , why do we already eat many foodstuffs that in theory should be much harder to swallow ? |
| 50 | After glasses had been refilled one of us — Tony , I think — said , ‘ Why do we just talk about it ? |
| 51 | Why do we even come to the Netherlands ? |
| 52 | I 'd still go out and do the same tomorrow , but it makes you wonder why do we really bother because we 're not getting the backing we need . |
| 53 | Why do we always argue about fishing rights and seem to have very little argument about oil ? |
| 54 | Why the criticism , and why do we often get things wrong ? |
| 55 | But it 's just a foul old tip , Ruth thought ; why do we still have to come here ? |
| 56 | Disposable society : So why do we still hear clamour from the environmentally conscious that plastics represent everything bad in our disposable society ? |
| 57 | That 's right , I mean why di why have we got the structure of agriculture as we have , you know why why do we still have an atomistical industry right , it 's not just a , a freak of nature , there are economic laws , erm , and opinion that s , that structure the industry and it 's because you just do n't get economies of scale staying in agriculture . |
| 58 | Well why do we then shove it in a stupid s four o'clock job ? |
| 59 | If that programme has been such a failure , why do we now have 30 programmes targeting support for identifiable industrial priority areas , and why are there almost 200 collaborative research programmes ? |
| 60 | Why do we so seldom hear any of them apart from No. 2 in the concert hall ? ( ) |