Example sentences of "why [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why keep putting it off ? |
| 2 | So why try to hurt her ? ’ |
| 3 | Why not just accept experience — why try to understand it and encapsulate it in words which will necessarily have an imprisoning effect upon the insight ? |
| 4 | So why bother to kill him ? |
| 5 | ‘ But why bother to mislead us ? ’ |
| 6 | But why bother to enlighten him ? |
| 7 | If paper does not rot , why bother to substitute it for plastic ? |
| 8 | I mean it was like years ago I heard things about Down 's children with holes in the heart and why bother to do it , but now everything 's changing — let's make them more normal . |
| 9 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |
| 10 | Nobody has said that Norwich were nt offside … so why bother telling us theyd ‘ scored ’ ? |
| 11 | If it has so little status , why bother understanding it , one might ask ! |
| 12 | ‘ If it is a great record I obviously wo n't let anyone else have it but if it is a record of David Gedge singing in the bath and only 13 people want to hear it , why bother putting it on RCA ? , ’ says Marshall . |
| 13 | For too long , inflights coasted along in a crappy state for several reasons : first , the implicit assumption that if you wanted your duty-free goods sold on board then you took an ad in the mag ( so , if you 're making money anyway , why bother to make it good ? ) ; second , the mags did n't even have to compete for ad budgets with proper media , since duty-free is usually handled by a separate division with a separate ad spend ; and last , nobody cares if nobody reads it . |
| 14 | " Why bother making it all , then ? " |
| 15 | It 's , it was done that 's why did block it up with a in the first instance . |
| 16 | Why do want it oh do you want it turned off . |
| 17 | ‘ Why do think he 's afraid of us ? ’ |