Example sentences of "why [verb] [pron] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why has nobody come to take care of me ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Why has she come to confess now ? ’ |
| 3 | Why d' ya except to come to you when they 're say away . |
| 4 | Why d' ya decided to give some contact . |
| 5 | He 's so thick why d' ya have to come out with something stupid like |
| 6 | ‘ Why d' you want to go in ? ’ |
| 7 | Why d' you prefer to return to a treadmill ? ’ |
| 8 | I mean this is something that we could maybe be of help to in fact maybe something that I could be of help to them on because I actually do lectures on public relations how to assess what I mean at a very basic level you want to communicate with press how do you do it but before you do it why do you want to do it . |
| 9 | Why did everyone want to put her in the wrong when she had done nothing to deserve it ? |
| 10 | Marlon : Why did we have to come shopping ? |
| 11 | But why did they choose to build on their own valuable market places instead of expanding outwards into suburbs ? |
| 12 | Why did they choose to omit a particular miracle and why did they change the chronology elsewhere ? |
| 13 | So why did they want to see Louise for then ? |
| 14 | Why did they want to dismiss positive news , potential proof that John was alive , and do absolutely nothing about it ? |
| 15 | But they did n't , so why did they want to come to Britain ? |
| 16 | Why did they decide to buy a £1,200 closed system for transferring spray when it can be done by hand for free ? |
| 17 | Why did they try to kill you ? |
| 18 | ‘ WHY OH WHY DID THEY TRY TO CHANGE THE WORLD BY REPEATEDLY CONTRADICTING THEMSELVES ( AND WERE WE REALLY AT THE SAME GIG ? ) |
| 19 | ‘ Why did they try to burn her ? ’ |
| 20 | Why did they have to do their cooking on a fire ? |
| 21 | ‘ Why did they have to die ! ’ |
| 22 | There they were , crawling on one tiny planet , not knowing why they were there : all in the same boat — why did they need to defend themselves against each other ? |
| 23 | Why did she think to try looking underneath one of the metallic blocks ? |
| 24 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |
| 25 | Why did she want to sit next to you ? |
| 26 | Why did she want to take away the one possession that was truly valuable to him ? |
| 27 | Oh dear God , why did she want to laugh and cry at the same time ? |
| 28 | So why did she want to stay ? |
| 29 | So why did she decide to leave after all ? |
| 30 | Why did she have to die ? |