Example sentences of "why [be] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they really mean to improve transport in Scotland , why are they frightened of agreeing to the new clause ? |
| 2 | ‘ Then why are they locked in a cell ? ’ |
| 3 | Why are they worried about wardrobes when they 're getting married all they need 's a bed . |
| 4 | ‘ Why are they coming to Whitely , anyway ? ’ |
| 5 | So why are they shaking like that ? |
| 6 | Why are they seduced by the marketing of the fast food producers ? |
| 7 | Why are we exposed to all these inconveniences ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If we 're both here , why are we bothering with the phone ? ’ |
| 9 | Why are we expected to be stunned into admiration each day by the media , which invites us to ponder the fortune and greatness of those who are the most voracious consumers of the precious treasures of the earth ? |
| 10 | okay good point and that is that is a point , that you need to be clear about what you want to role plays on as good as the real thing you know but then again sometimes you know sometimes I 've listened to people saying well role plays are a bit harder than real life harder than real life why are we talking about being assertive now . |
| 11 | ‘ But why are we talking about Silvia ? ’ |
| 12 | Why are we taken through the process of construction in such detail ? |
| 13 | Why are we concentrating on them ? |
| 14 | When , as a teenager , I read D. H. Lawrence 's poem ‘ The Tortoise ’ , the line ‘ O why are we crucified into sex at all ? 'seemed to me the most basic and profound of all existential cries . |
| 15 | Why are we going to all this trouble over a bridge that we do n't own and that will probably never see a train again ? |
| 16 | Erm why are we going round that way ? |
| 17 | One radical MP , William Cobbett , elected in 1833 , wondered : ‘ Why are we squeezed into so small a space that it is absolutely impossible that there should be calm and regular discussion … |
| 18 | But the really pertinent question is why are we engaging in gradualistic , incremental tactics , or indeed any tactics at all ? |
| 19 | And why are you calling from so far away ? |
| 20 | ‘ Why are you acting like this ? ’ |
| 21 | Why are you pouting like that ? |
| 22 | Why are you auditioning for West Side Story ? |
| 23 | ‘ Why are you writing to Richard instead of telephoning him ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ asked Sikes , uneasy at the old man 's strange expression . |
| 25 | Why are you looking at York |
| 26 | ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ she asked abruptly . |
| 27 | ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ asked Leonora . |
| 28 | Impulsively she asked , ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ and immediately regretted having spoken her thoughts aloud . |
| 29 | Why are you looking at me like that ? |
| 30 | Why are you looking for another job ? |