Example sentences of "why [vb past] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did nobody tell me it was like this ? ’ |
| 2 | Erm , what I found actually er erm even odder , was that is , if the servants knew about her , why did nobody appear at the wedding ceremony ? |
| 3 | Why did everyone sit , breath indrawn , like figures in a tableau ? |
| 4 | Why did everyone accuse him of being cross ? |
| 5 | Why did everyone think she could n't cope with hurt ? |
| 6 | Why did everyone want to put her in the wrong when she had done nothing to deserve it ? |
| 7 | Why did everyone like his father ? |
| 8 | The speculation extends from the obvious ( the ‘ whodunit ? ’ ) to the more searching ( the ‘ why did he-or-she dunit ? ’ ) . |
| 9 | Why did ye come back ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Why did ye let that oul bastard treat ye that way ? ’ |
| 11 | Why did no-one tell me ? |
| 12 | Why did we bother coming ? |
| 13 | Goibniu remembered that Gnomes were reportedly extremely greedy , but said they would take a look at the designs now , if the Gnomes were quite ready , thus galvanising the Gnomes into anxious industry , resulting in much unpacking of knapsacks and unrolling of parchments and remarks such as , ‘ Who 's got the plan of the turquoise bracelet ? ’ and ‘ Why did we bring along four sketches for the everyday silver tiara ? ’ and ‘ Flaherty 's sitting on the Coronation sceptre ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Then why did we change the name if we were so proud of him ? ’ |
| 15 | Think about it : why did we go to the cinema , in those days ? |
| 16 | ‘ Why did we go to Sheen ? ’ |
| 17 | Why did we go this long way ? |
| 18 | Why did we do so much better than the pundits and opinion polls predicted ? |
| 19 | erm and I think that if it is pulled down for this new development , in ten year 's time we will look back and we will say ‘ Why did we do this ? |
| 20 | Structured thought which had as its main attributes three themes of course before you had that you had to have a clear objective which helped you to choose what those three themes were , and why why did we choose three as a based on |
| 21 | ‘ Why did we stop ? |
| 22 | Why did we demonstrate ? |
| 23 | Now why did we did we subtract this three from that five . |
| 24 | Marlon : Why did we have to come shopping ? |
| 25 | I simply wish to point out that if it is supposed that Karen Parsons and I embarked that afternoon with the intention of drowning her husband , why did we wait till we had reached a point where our criminal acts were overlooked by at least fifteen witnesses ? |
| 26 | Why did we respond in the way that we did ? |
| 27 | But why did we get a reasonable result for the electric field ? |
| 28 | Q : Why did we close a Johnson Brothers factory last year if the brand is so important ? |
| 29 | Well why did we buy Gabiadini ? |
| 30 | Why did what go wrong ? |