Example sentences of "[Wh adv] anyone would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know why I should be ; it was quite a reasonable assumption and I ca n't begin to imagine how anyone would dare to whip two manuscripts like that out of sight — I 'd never have the nerve . |
| 2 | It was such a bizarre twist that we could n't see how anyone would find a way around it . |
| 3 | But why anyone would want to carry a bike up a mountain on their shoulder for the pleasure of being able to bump about on it for tiny , short stretches of flat ridge was completely beyond me . |
| 4 | All attempts to explain just why anyone would want to do this failed . |
| 5 | But they were very strange creatures , humans , and she could not understand why anyone would want to live with them . |
| 6 | I bet their gigs are quite fun too although why anyone would want to sit and watch a video of one made by a stoned roadie is anyone 's guess . |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't imagine why anyone would want to eat them , ’ he went on . |
| 8 | I have never been able to understand why anyone would want to wake up at the dead of night ( 5 a.m. ) to go and paddle a canoe , but I am assured that the challenge is worth it . |
| 9 | Their owner says she 's ca n't understand why anyone would want to injure two defenceless animals … |
| 10 | He ca n't understand why anyone would want to set fire to the garage and cars . |
| 11 | She says I think one of the worst or strangest is errif which is a two year old canary — why anyone would want to have a word for that I do n't know . |
| 12 | ‘ I can not think why anyone would want to do this to me , ’ she said . |
| 13 | I ca n't imagine why anyone would do this to another human being . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't know why anyone would do something like this , ’ he said , ‘ but the stickers are proper , professional ones , not just scrawled writing over the posters . |
| 15 | I just could n't understand how or why anyone would do that to my Brian . |
| 16 | A poor figure of a man , no one could see why anyone would fight for him . |
| 17 | She peered at the men fighting , for the life of her not able to think why anyone would come to her rescue . |
| 18 | I do n't know why anyone would live in Darlington any more . ’ |