Example sentences of "why did [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did Karen go back to her house ? |
| 2 | ‘ Why did Albie borrow this ten grand ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Tell me , ’ said Robert , as they walked up the High Street , ‘ and I 'm not going on about it , but exactly why did Ali sentence me to death ? ’ |
| 4 | Or why did Stef kidnap well I , you know I ca n't understand this girl , because she 's been in er , I mean she must of seen him when , when he 's approached her to buy the house |
| 5 | In his discourse on indigestion in the horse , he posed the question , why did ploughmen seldom suffer from indigestion , while members of the higher classes were prone to this ? |
| 6 | Why did passport mean something when it had n't been stolen ? |
| 7 | Why did Dr Flaubert sell his property at Déville to buy this house ? |
| 8 | Her mother had normal feet , her father had , why did Benny 's have to be the way they were ? |
| 9 | Why did Karim — ‘ Ow ! ’ said Maisie . |
| 10 | A severe critic of the statutes of 1861 might respond to the question " Why did Alexander II free the serfs ? " by saying that he failed to do so . |
| 11 | ( 2 ) If Waqar and Wasim Akram were using a doctored ball then why did Aqib Javed not benefit from it ? |
| 12 | Why did Osiris have Set for a brother ? |
| 13 | I 've got a classic one , why did London burn down in 1600s , because all the houses were made of ? |
| 14 | Before turning to the attempts to revitalize science teaching which have emerged since the early 1960s , it is important to ask the question ‘ Why did school science emerge in the way it did ? ’ |
| 15 | Why did women ever have to become ‘ Ms ’ instead of ‘ Miss ’ or Mrs ? |
| 16 | ‘ Respiratory failure at 11.30 p.m. ’ she said ( why did women have to be so scrupulously exact as to detail ? ) ‘ and before that he could n't swallow . |
| 17 | Why did Gunhilda not then return to her monastery ? |
| 18 | It was one of 500 , he said and asked : ‘ Why did ministers conspire to conceal these documents ? |
| 19 | Secondly , why did Fr O'Dowd not make an official complaint against the Daily Telegraph . |
| 20 | Why did genes come together into large vehicles , each with a single genetic exit route ? |
| 21 | Why did genes choose to gang up and make large bodies for themselves to live in ? |
| 22 | Why did genes gang up in cells ? |
| 23 | First then , why did genes gang up in cells ? |
| 24 | Why did England fail to exploit the discovery ? |
| 25 | And why did Rose seem to sag wearily , as though it were tired and feeling its age ? |
| 26 | ‘ Why did Madeleine turn you down ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Why did Adam wait until so late ? ’ |
| 28 | J. H. Plumb has raised the interesting question ‘ Why did history develop in Europe , whereas in China it never extracted itself from the iron grip of the past in the service of the present ? ’ |
| 29 | Why did Mrs Jenks insist on giving them to him for breakfast ? |
| 30 | Why did Holmes live secretly in a hut on the moor ? |