Example sentences of "[coord] why do [pers pn] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And why did they do that ? |
| 2 | And why did you drag that poor innocent woman along ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And why did you do that ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And why did you do that , sir ? ’ he asked . |
| 5 | Well then when they start looking about a bit more , that is when it costs you because anything that Les has to get involved in , cos they go back to Les and say well why did he do this and why did you do that ? |
| 6 | And why did you hit this car ? |
| 7 | And why did he do that ? |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | And why do we say that ? |
| 10 | How satisfied are they with the various parts of the criminal justice process ( policing , trial , and sentence ) and why do they feel this way ? |
| 11 | What is this anthropomorphism , and why do I see this landscape as male ? |
| 12 | And why do you think that was ? |
| 13 | What specific areas were you coveting , and why do you interpret this as coveting as such ? |
| 14 | Instead he asked , ‘ And why do you have this particular addiction ? |
| 15 | ‘ And why do you say that ? ’ |
| 16 | And why do you impose these conditions ? |
| 17 | I know but why does it do that ? |
| 18 | It is pretty certain that , in term of what adults mean by ‘ longer ’ the children do not really think that the pencil is longer ; but why do they say this ? |
| 19 | But why do we do that ? |
| 20 | But WHY do we believe that ? |
| 21 | But why do you want those things ? |
| 22 | ‘ But … but why do you use these strange names ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But why did he choose that ? ’ she wanted to know . |