Example sentences of "[noun] why did you [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just sugar and eggs in there , and the card why did you come back for ? |
| 2 | CATHERINE Why did you do it , coming in like that . |
| 3 | CATHERINE Why did you have to go frightening me like that ? |
| 4 | Q. Why did you ask Colonel North how many Hawks can you get in a 707 ? |
| 5 | Kevin why did you give Michelle that glass cos I did n't wash those glasses , I did n't wash those glasses . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Mum why did you bring some more clothes ? |
| 8 | Mum why did you say go away ? |
| 9 | she told and before erm Papya goes any further she 's gon na go Carla why did you say it ? |