Example sentences of "why [verb] he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did he want to hold his peace ? |
| 2 | Why did he want to leave ? |
| 3 | But why did he want to keep her here ? |
| 4 | But why did he choose to live in Bali rather than England ? |
| 5 | This would certainly have been within the power of an omnipotent being , but if he had started it off in such an incomprehensible way , why did he choose to let it evolve according to laws that we could understand ? |
| 6 | But if Gloucester chose to act against Hastings , rather than being stampeded into it by his discovery of a conspiracy , why did he choose to show his hand before his troops reached London and before he had control of the other possible claimants to the throne ? |
| 7 | But if Gloucester chose to act against Hastings , rather than being stampeded into it by his discovery of a conspiracy , why did he choose to show his hand before his troops reached London and before he had control of the other possible claimants to the throne ? |
| 8 | ‘ So why did he go to see you ? |
| 9 | ‘ As you follow him through the first forest , ’ he said , ‘ Remember this , if you can … keep asking yourself the question : why did he fail to return . |
| 10 | In the choice of rotation by one farmer in East Anglia in 1970 , why did he decide to spread fertiliser at the start of Year 5 ? |
| 11 | ‘ So why did he come to see you ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ In that case , ’ retorted Geoffrey , ‘ why did he agree to see him in the first place ? ’ |
| 13 | so why did he have to die ? |
| 14 | If he was ill , bad luck , but why did he have to ruin everything for me ? |
| 15 | Why did he have to ask all these questions ? |
| 16 | Why did he have to lead her instead down an obscure passage to a toilet where generations of old and ugly and smelly monks had been relieving themselves ? |
| 17 | Why did he have to choose this moment to be nice to her ? |
| 18 | Why did he have to do that ? |
| 19 | Why did he have to do that ? |
| 20 | Why did he have to do that ? |
| 21 | But why did he have to leave his job ? |
| 22 | Why did he have to frighten people so much ? |
| 23 | Well if he 's keeping forward with his policies , why did he have to sack the man ? |
| 24 | ‘ Why did he have to come here ? ’ |
| 25 | Why did he have to hate her so much ? |
| 26 | Oh , why did he have to look so irresistibly handsome when he smiled like that ? |
| 27 | And when he stood to strip off his tunic and shirt to have his arm attended to , why did he have to look so big and strong ? |
| 28 | Why did he have to make her feel so stupid ? |
| 29 | Why did he have to make such a provocative remark ? |
| 30 | Why did he have to keep it there for three hours ? |