Example sentences of "why we had " in BNC.

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1 I thought she 'd put the money in my apron by mistake and that 's why we had
2 We told him why we had come .
3 There was an edge of anger in the song , as if she did n't see why we had n't understood it yet .
4 She could n't understand why we had done such a thing .
5 I could n't remember why we had decided not to go there .
6 I wondered if the athletics department might explain why we had n't a 1500 metres runner in the final for the first time since 1960 ?
7 IT 'S NOT easy , in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington , to explain the importance of The Oval cricket ground in Kennington , yet such was my lot when in 1978 , shortly after my family and I had left South Africa following certain differences of opinion with our government , President Jimmy Carter kindly invited my in and asked why we had chosen Britain and not America as our country of refuge .
8 Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane .
9 He enquired about where we were from , why we had come here , and where we were going , and laughed uproariously at all our answers .
10 town built in our country with two motorways , and the towns have all expanded to great extent and that was why we had to give up , it was nothing to do with our friends the saboteurs .
11 Meanwhile , there was the more urgent matter of why we had been followed .
12 Okay , so we could n't afford to compromise the Asmar network with a rescue operation , but there was another reason , too , why we had to leave them where they were .
13 That 's probably why we had trouble last time .
14 When at last he succeeded the man was sullen and uncooperative , repeatedly demanding why we had come to Bahdu .
15 We could n't understand why we had to go .
16 That was the area that was attacked by the Tory Government in their valuations and that is why we had the revolt .
17 My hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield wondered why we had so many people in prison and in police cells .
18 And I think a lot of the things to do with the way we viewed men were to do with women experiencing profound and debilitating sexism within all those respective movements and this is why we had to really re-think things in a radical way and I 'm very proud of that .
19 Wales getting to the World Cup ( which I want ) , Speedo playing a blinder , and Silver issuing another great statement about why we had to sell one of our best players ( this time for a bit more I hope ) .
20 That 's why we had the foris the florist claiming
21 ‘ I had to look at why we had n't penetrated the potential markets , and I did a research project on that , and how we could go about it . ’
22 No that 's all we 've got , that 's why we had to get some .
23 Just er er why we had only three , right ?
24 that 's why we had to get him out because it was n't gon na help him !
25 Just gone , we 're obviously working to Italian time in this Italian job because we 've had really five minutes of stoppage time at the end of the first half and I 'm a bit baffled as to why we had it .
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