Example sentences of "[adv] why [modal v] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you think I am wrong , then fine , but you must know it 's bollocks , he must know it 's bollocks , so why must you even try to get this point across in a publication that has such a big influence on budding , enthusiastic players , a lot of whom have no other contact with the rock establishment ? |
| 2 | So why should we still be looking around for suitable composts ? |
| 3 | That turned out to be untrue , so why should we now believe these spurious scares about NHS trusts leading to privatisation ? |
| 4 | No-one begged me to conduct then , so why should they afterwards ? ’ |
| 5 | No one liked her , so why should I suddenly ? |
| 6 | ‘ It did n't bother you six years ago , so why should it now ? |
| 7 | What he saw would n't change Wellington 's thinking : it had n't in fifty years , so why should it now ? |
| 8 | So why should she now be having such difficulty , finding all her old arguments so unconvincing ? |
| 9 | ‘ Then why could we never go out together to places where we might be seen and recognised after we became lovers ? ’ she demanded scornfully . |
| 10 | If evolution is simply a matter of selective breeding , then why can we never produce anything other than dogs from dogs , however hard we try ? |
| 11 | And if it was so insignificant then why can I still see that first kiss even now ? |
| 12 | But I could n't help feeling that maybe he was right , otherwise why would something so bad happen to me ? |