Example sentences of "why be [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why are they seduced by the marketing of the fast food producers ? |
| 2 | ‘ If we 're both here , why are we bothering with the phone ? ’ |
| 3 | Why are we taken through the process of construction in such detail ? |
| 4 | ‘ Why are you hiding in the cupboard , Finn ? ’ she asked like a mother to an inexplicable child at the end of a hard day . |
| 5 | ‘ Why are you asking about the headsail ? ’ she enquired , steering the conversation on to less painful ground . |
| 6 | ‘ Why are you sleeping on the floor ? ’ he asked seriously . |
| 7 | Why am I coming in the room ? |
| 8 | All right so why am I standing outside the door of the canteen … ? |
| 9 | Now why am I stirring in the age long war between the sexes ? |
| 10 | For example : A : Why were you sitting in the town hall fountain , with a goldfish bowl over your head ? |
| 11 | Why were you waiting in the garden ? ’ |
| 12 | Why 's it built into the first life assured ? |
| 13 | And then , well why is you clumpering across the landing six or seven times ? |
| 14 | ‘ So why was he insured with the British and Cosmopolitan ? ’ |
| 15 | And why was he waiting in the Yew Alley and not in the house ? ’ |
| 16 | Why was it built in the way it was and why did the engineering world show so little interest in it ? |
| 17 | Why was it stuck on the bed ? |