Example sentences of "why did [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The speculation extends from the obvious ( the ‘ whodunit ? ’ ) to the more searching ( the ‘ why did he-or-she dunit ? ’ ) . |
| 2 | Why did ye come back ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Why did ye let that oul bastard treat ye that way ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Why did we stop ? |
| 5 | Why did we not just stop and camp ? |
| 6 | Why did we demonstrate ? |
| 7 | Think about it : why did we go to the cinema , in those days ? |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | ‘ Then why did we change the name if we were so proud of him ? ’ |
| 11 | Why did we respond in the way that we did ? |
| 12 | But why did we get a reasonable result for the electric field ? |
| 13 | Why did we never see the child ? |
| 14 | 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 ! ’ |
| 15 | Why did we do so much better than the pundits and opinion polls predicted ? |
| 16 | Marlon : Why did we have to come shopping ? |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Why did we always talk of it as ‘ the age of the Grammar School ’ ? |
| 19 | Q : Why did we close a Johnson Brothers factory last year if the brand is so important ? |
| 20 | Why did we bother coming ? |
| 21 | ‘ Why did we go to Sheen ? ’ |
| 22 | Why did we not buy another younger centre half ? |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | Now why did we did we subtract this three from that five . |
| 25 | Well why did we buy Gabiadini ? |
| 26 | Why did we not get but I wan na do that part ! |
| 27 | Why did we go this long way ? |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | As Mrs Robson said , people had taken to war like they did to life : they had accepted it and were living with it and with all the things it did to them ; but why did them up top have to go and stop the flower trains coming from Cornwall ? |
| 30 | If the police are truly interested in being accountable to and building bridges with those that they police , why did they not discuss their plans with representatives of the community organisations on the estate ? |