Example sentences of "why do you [vb infin] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The later term that Freud adopted to this super ego has become synonymous in people 's minds with conscience the idea of the super ego as the the role of conscience and presum presumably that 's another aspect of the same thing and er Serg Moskovicy in his excellent book Age of the Crowd erm which is on the reading list which I can thoroughly recommend in discussing this point of how Freud sees the leader as the kind of super ego of the followers quotes one of the Nuremberg war criminals , I forget which it was now erm Goering or Goebbels or one of these er people who when asked of the Nuremberg war tribunals why did you do the things you did , replied Adolf Hitler was my conscience and that 's er that 's a very erm good example of this idea of er how the the role of conscience can be transferred from the individual to the , to the leader of the group and I suppose Dean you would say erm illustrates one of the greatest dangers of group , group membership because er obviously if if that happens in a group , then erm individuals are to some extent erm surrendering their moral self-responsibility and of course if Freud 's insight is correct , then there was an element of truth in in this in this excuse Adolf Hitler was my conscience . |
| 2 | Why did you alter the books ? |
| 3 | ‘ Why did you take the drugs ? ’ |
| 4 | Why did you let the Men catch you again ? ’ |
| 5 | Why do you think the masters of the old guilds and crafts in the lowland towns opposed new inventions and ideas ? |
| 6 | Why do you think the police let them go ? |
| 7 | Why do you believe the incidents have become more frequent ? |
| 8 | Why do you keep the guitars , the posters and photographs ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Then why do you let the children leave their bicycles in the cloister ? ’ he shouts . |