Example sentences of "why do [pron] go [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well why did they go down there then ? |
| 2 | Why did she go out and buy that obvious representation of a landscape she wanted to escape , the figures moving noiselessly under the shadow of the mill ? |
| 3 | ‘ He started going on again about me going into mainstream journalism , how a friend of his had contacts in Fleet Street , why the hell did n't I grow up and settle down like normal girls , why did I go around with Jake . |
| 4 | Why did you go on about that erm place where you went for that beer and you know , you said that we worked for that |
| 5 | Well erm they did n't want to do banker 's order , so why did you go around ? |
| 6 | ‘ Why did you go off into the woods ? |
| 7 | And why did you go out on strike in the first place ? |
| 8 | ‘ Why did you go out when you got the letter ? |
| 9 | Why did you go out of the way to kill Romeo ? |
| 10 | Well why did you go out with Nick for ? |
| 11 | Why did you go back to London in the first place ? — why did n't you stay here ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ But why did you go back ? ’ |
| 13 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |
| 14 | Yes why did he go on to speak about this |
| 15 | ‘ Well , why did he go down to Streatley on the Saturday night , and make such a bloody secret of it ? ’ |
| 16 | And the years rolled away , and it was a different room , yet still the same , the room where she 'd had her first ; old white paint with the grudging cleanliness of not quite enough scrubbing ; the sticky rubber mat under her bottom , that made her wonder what other bottoms had lain on it , wonder desperately enough to take her mind off her panic at the instrument 's entry onto her , and the thought , it 's like the first screw you ever had — why do we do it , why do we go on doing it ? |
| 17 | Why do they go on ? |
| 18 | Why do you go on believing he 's some sort of great big nome in the sky ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Why do you go on working for such a firm ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ So why do I go on expanding the company instead of putting up my feet and shooting the breeze ? ’ |
| 21 | Harvey said very reasonably , ‘ Then why does he go around wearing that ankle-length overcoat with the astrakhan collar ? |
| 22 | ‘ If it 's such a nice little earner , why does he go round prying into other people 's mail ? ’ asked Werewolf . |
| 23 | So why why does it go down to very cold ? |