Example sentences of "why do we " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Why did we stop ? |
2 | Why did we not just stop and camp ? |
3 | Why did we demonstrate ? |
4 | Think about it : why did we go to the cinema , in those days ? |
5 | More fundamentally perhaps , people are asking themselves , ‘ Why did we all want English medium anyway ? ’ and there is a rather bitter feeling around that perhaps all the enthusiasm , all the euphoria about ‘ new methods ’ ought to have been preceded by a sober consideration of ‘ new objectives . ’ |
6 | I simply wish to point out that if it is supposed that Karen Parsons and I embarked that afternoon with the intention of drowning her husband , why did we wait till we had reached a point where our criminal acts were overlooked by at least fifteen witnesses ? |
7 | ‘ Then why did we change the name if we were so proud of him ? ’ |
8 | Why did we respond in the way that we did ? |
9 | But why did we get a reasonable result for the electric field ? |
10 | Why did we never see the child ? |
11 | Goibniu remembered that Gnomes were reportedly extremely greedy , but said they would take a look at the designs now , if the Gnomes were quite ready , thus galvanising the Gnomes into anxious industry , resulting in much unpacking of knapsacks and unrolling of parchments and remarks such as , ‘ Who 's got the plan of the turquoise bracelet ? ’ and ‘ Why did we bring along four sketches for the everyday silver tiara ? ’ and ‘ Flaherty 's sitting on the Coronation sceptre ! ’ |
12 | Why did we do so much better than the pundits and opinion polls predicted ? |
13 | Marlon : Why did we have to come shopping ? |
14 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |
15 | Why did we always talk of it as ‘ the age of the Grammar School ’ ? |
16 | Q : Why did we close a Johnson Brothers factory last year if the brand is so important ? |
17 | Why did we bother coming ? |
18 | ‘ Why did we go to Sheen ? ’ |
19 | Why did we not buy another younger centre half ? |
20 | Structured thought which had as its main attributes three themes of course before you had that you had to have a clear objective which helped you to choose what those three themes were , and why why did we choose three as a based on |
21 | Now why did we did we subtract this three from that five . |
22 | Well why did we buy Gabiadini ? |
23 | Why did we not get but I wan na do that part ! |
24 | Why did we go this long way ? |
25 | erm and I think that if it is pulled down for this new development , in ten year 's time we will look back and we will say ‘ Why did we do this ? |
26 | Why do we need a Christian response to AIDS ? |
27 | Why do we have to say that these thoughts are like mental actions ? |
28 | But as one parent said at the last gathering : ‘ Why do we all have to be so matey ? ’ |
29 | ‘ This declaration is not a blind bit of good to the workers who have to take over the jobs of those who have emigrated , ’ and ‘ Why do we have to wait till the next central committee meeting ? ’ were other grumbles . |
30 | Why do we do it ? |