Example sentences of "why [verb] [pron] [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Why has he only given magic mushrooms four for euphoria , when Collis Brownes gets five ? ) |
| 2 | ‘ Why did nobody else see these footprints ? ’ he asked . |
| 3 | So why did she now feel this frightening apprehension — a deep , numbing fear of what lay ahead ? |
| 4 | Oh , why did she never meet any nice men ? |
| 5 | Then he said , " If you thought it was so bloody good , why did you only read one page ? " |
| 6 | Why did he suddenly do that ? |
| 7 | They said at the trial that he was a kind husband , a good neighbour — why did he suddenly do this terrible thing ? |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | ‘ Why do they always say these things , Mod ? ’ she wailed , ‘ I think you 're beautiful ! ’ |
| 11 | No , why do you always think that ? |
| 12 | Why do you always have poor ? |
| 13 | Why does it invariably attract such condemnation ? |
| 14 | But why does it always go wrong ? |
| 15 | Why , oh , why had she ever started this ? |
| 16 | Why had she ever got involved in that slanging match in the first place ? she wondered with a dark surge of anger . |
| 17 | Why had she ever opened that letter ? |
| 18 | Nice , why have you just bought those ? |
| 19 | Why have you only got one hand in this glove . |