Example sentences of "why [verb] [pron] [vb infin] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Why d' ya leave your music on ?
2	Why did everyone like his father ?
3	" If they went to all that trouble to take out the clothes labels , why did they leave his face untouched ?
4	Why did they pick my school ?
5	Why did she mind his being hurt so much ?
6	Why did I think her name was Susie ?
7	Why did I leave my normal , safe , lonely life for this ?
8	Why did I call her Camille ? ’
9	‘ Then why did you tell your mother I was n't ? ’
10	‘ Why did you lock your doors ? ’ asked Sherlock Holmes .
11	‘ Why did you hide your true relationship with Simon ? ’ he cut in .
12	‘ If you say that about the Irish , why did you marry my mother ? ’
13	Why did you give her sleeping pills ?
14	Why did you leave your last job ?
15	‘ Why did you leave your husband ? ’
16	‘ Why did you leave your last job ? ’ asked the employer .
17	‘ Why did you leave my house ?
18	And why did you choose your pet — for its own attributes alone , or partly because your choice might influence others ' opinion of you ?
19	" Then why did you take your rings off so carefully ? "
20	‘ Why did you take your golf clubs to Romania ?
21	‘ Why did you say your name was Michele Lorenzo ? ’
22	‘ Why did you attack your cousin ? ’
23	‘ Why did you fake your own death ? ’
24	‘ If you 're a programmed Killer , why did you save my life ? ’ she asked .
25	Why did he withhold his hand and leave me yet alive ?
26	Edouard invented that fake message about the museum but why did he send your crook up there after me ?
27	Why did he change his name ?
28	Why did he spend his life making films that would be forgotten almost as quickly as it took to make them ?
29	If he loved his wife , why did he hate her garden ?
30	‘ Why did he write his books in the ladies ’ retiring room ? ’ enquired Auguste .

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