Example sentences of "why [modal v] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why must I struggle constantly against the odds when others find it so easy ? |
| 2 | Why must I change my dress ? |
| 3 | ‘ But why , Nana , why must I have shoes ? ’ |
| 4 | But why must I worry about those future citizens , today 's citizen-slob might reason , even if they are likely to include me ? |
| 5 | And why should I prevent him ? ’ |
| 6 | and the other is , why should I clear up the mess that this guy 's made . |
| 7 | ‘ Why should I grunt ? ’ |
| 8 | Why should I lock it ? |
| 9 | ‘ Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths ? ’ |
| 10 | Why should I assume that in combining imperatives with propositions about other persons I can afford to ignore , while taking for granted the analogizing on which the mere use of a common name depends , the operations of assimilating to and differentiating from myself without which the propositions would not even have their full meaning ? |
| 11 | And why should I assume you 'd be interested anyway ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Why should I do that ? |
| 13 | ‘ Now why should I do that ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Why should I do that ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Why should I do that ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Why should I do that ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But why should I do anything , Rose ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ What I was thinking was , why should I do anything ? ’ said Constance . |
| 19 | Why should I do that ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Why should I do that ? ’ |
| 21 | Why should I do that ? ’ |
| 22 | A : Now why should I do a thing like that ? |
| 23 | But why should I do her any favours and explain this , after what she 's done to me ? |
| 24 | ‘ Why should I do that ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Why should I do you any harm when it is you who are helping me ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ And why should I do that , eh ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Why should I do that ? ’ |
| 28 | Well , of course the guy with the sixty per cent just kept saying , you know , up yours , in the nicest possible way , you know , it may work for you , but why should I do it when I get no benefit from it , and I own sixty per cent of this outfit . |
| 29 | Things that create , well why should I do it . |
| 30 | ‘ Why should I do that ? ’ |