Example sentences of "[adv] why [vb mod] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So why would I choose you ? |
| 2 | So why would anyone look at non-Windows solution ? |
| 3 | So why would you use it , er , that 's have a look at . |
| 4 | yeah , so why would you have to do another one next year ? |
| 5 | So why 'd they make him up to a supervisor then ? |
| 6 | ‘ So why 'd she say that thing about ferrets ? ’ inquired Sam further . |
| 7 | We do n't ask a Hollywood actor whether his latest blockbusting performance was fuelled by cocaine or booze ( though to be told that it was is mildly titillating ) , so why should we care how unorthodox were the preparations that preceded the athlete 's explosion off the blocks ? |
| 8 | We do n't like 16-bit owners making fun of us 8-bit owners , so why should we make fun of the Spectrum ? |
| 9 | I mean they 're normal to us but they 're not normal to other people , so why should we make them normal to them , just to please society ? |
| 10 | ‘ You do n't love me ; so why should we make love ? ’ |
| 11 | So why should we pander to the media and the right-wingers of the Party ? |
| 12 | So why should we start seeing the highly dangerous picture of front rows collapsing the scrummage. ? |
| 13 | She was feeling thoroughly angry , but she hid it from Jean as she went on , ‘ Ling has shown us where the cakes , sandwiches and asparagus rolls are in the deep-freeze , and we know exactly when to defrost them in the microwave ovens — so why should we worry about Doreen ? ’ |
| 14 | Little bloody ants on this earth , do n't you know , no , sorry , it 's not , no , no , so why should we worry ? |
| 15 | We do not allow motor cyclists on to the roads without helmets , so why should we allow bowler-hatted men with batons to walk up the highways ? |
| 16 | So why should we have new boundaries . |
| 17 | We do n't believe in leprechauns so why should we believe in The Queen ? |
| 18 | They were wrong , so why should we believe that they have got it right on this occasion ? |
| 19 | Now most credit managers will be familiar with farms such as CCN and Infolink , so why should they go through British Telecom ? |
| 20 | As one Nigerian journalist explains , most African leaders have their drinking water imported from Europe — so why should they bother about the danger that dumped waste might contaminate underground water ? |
| 21 | Well , I think cu , er cause suffering whatever it happens , but , surely why , I mean the elderly had to suffer through the wars so why should they have to suffer again now ? |
| 22 | The rebels have got zero prospects of jobs while John 's PM , so why should they come into line ? |
| 23 | I 'd called it that all my life so why should they try to force me to change the way I speak my own language ? |
| 24 | ‘ So why should he do you favours ? |
| 25 | It 's only the busiest and best-known road in London linking Kings Cross , Euston , Baker Street etc , so why should he have ? |
| 26 | The fellow said he did n't give a fig about life so why should he fear death ? |
| 27 | So why should he require this additional radio , especially when he had access to — and was probably the only user of — the much superior radio in his radio-room ? ’ |
| 28 | Yet the point which he rightly argued was that for the previous thirty years he had personally controlled the maintenance of the ditches and hedges of this parish , so why should he consider newfangled ideas about nature conservation being built into any proposed scheme now ? |
| 29 | Madeleine seemed to like him as he was , so why should he worry about something that was n't important any more ? |
| 30 | So why should you care ? ’ |