Example sentences of "why else [vb mod] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why else would we wait ? |
| 2 | And you 'll say well , why else would they need to wear armour to protect themselves unless it was quite dangerous ? |
| 3 | Why else would they book two support acts , Airhead and the Frank and Walters , from the latest vintage of hip young things . |
| 4 | Why else would anyone come here ? ’ |
| 5 | Why else would he bring you here on his first night back in Denmark when he knows it 's one of my favourite clubs ? ’ |
| 6 | So , he WAS wanted , he supports Leeds , he s lived in Leeds all his life , why else would he want to move if not for financial reasons ? ? ? |
| 7 | Not that she believed his mother was a tramp , but whatever had happened all those years ago it had obviously involved her grandfather — why else would he give her money when the child so obviously could n't have been his ? |
| 8 | I assumed that Engineering department 's approval had been conveyed internally to Mr. , particularly since the letter makes specific reference to our site meeting ( why else would he mention it ? ) . |
| 9 | Why else would he read so much into her innocent conversation with a stranger , or casually lie about their being lovers to the hotel receptionist ? |
| 10 | Why else would he have remained a bachelor ? |
| 11 | Why else would he use it ? |
| 12 | MR LYSONS of 21 Norton Rd , Rochdale , is a man with a mission — why else would he publish a fanzine dedicated to the works of that erstwhile Genesis mixer and general eminent musical mastermind — Jonathan King . |
| 13 | Why else would I spend a nickel phoning you the glad tidings . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Why else would I have set up my workshop near Killearn ? ’ |
| 15 | Why else would I buy the sticker ? |
| 16 | Why else would you bother to come halfway across Europe during Arctic weather conditions ? ’ |
| 17 | Why else would you hold an election ? |
| 18 | ‘ I know you do — why else would you devour the horoscopes in the daily paper and keep a book about it in your desk ? |
| 19 | ‘ Why else would you have left me that note ? |
| 20 | In all the yelling and argument that followed Jo concluded that Andy the gardener was a starfucker in the literal sense of the term , for what else could her mother have been doing in the pool house at that time of day and why else would she have over-reacted the way she did ? |
| 21 | Why else would she have turned her back on Johnny ? |
| 22 | Why else would she have looked away from him to glance idly at the clock ? |
| 23 | So we say ‘ Of course the cat believes the ball is stuck — it is conscious , its eyes work , why else would it behave as it does ? ’ but disallow that it might have the belief ‘ that it believes the ball is stuck ’ , this being linguistic ( Kenny 1975 : 5 ) . |
| 24 | Why else might they have gone raiding ? |
| 25 | Why else might there appear to be no moon ? |
| 26 | ‘ Why else could they think that father was mixed up in this ? ’ |
| 27 | Apart from food and the ‘ lights out ’ issue , why else should they protest on those cold nights in December 1984 ? |
| 28 | Wolfgang Hildesheimer ( 1985 , p.201 ) , in his ‘ warts-and-all ’ study of Mozart , suggests that music offers similar opportunities : ‘ Why else should we need music but for its ability to satisfy our longing for emotional experience , without our having to undergo the deep tumult at its root ’ . |
| 29 | Why else should she have come to Brighton on her own , and out of season ? |
| 30 | ‘ Why else should she invite you to her room ? |