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  • "If you've got so much rational thought and logic, Yusuf," Declan sprinkles bits into his Pot Noodle, "why've you been stuck in this shit-pit for the last ten years?"

    David Mitchell Muggins Here 2010

  • 'Okay, but why've you got him hogtied?' demanded Jyp.

    The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

  • John Burke, why've you kept us in the dark these months and months?

    The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Harriet Stark

  • And why've you trussed up these men like chicken going to market? "

    Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006

  • Tell me that, if it's an exercise why've they given us live rounds? "

    Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

  • "And why've we been given the house while the rest of that lot are beating the pavement from West Hampstead to the river?

    A Traitor to Memory George, Elizabeth 2001

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