Example sentences of "[Wh adv] we did [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before they went to sleep , Marian whispered , ‘ You will think of us when you are his wife , Tess , and how we did not hate you , because we did not expect to be chosen by him . ’ |
| 2 | Anyone else see the game last night ? , how we did n't win 3 or 4–1 , I 'll never know . |
| 3 | There must have been a time when we did n't quarrel , when we were just content to be together . |
| 4 | We saw herds of stags and although we never actually walked for a day when we did n't see anyone else , there was a week of walking when we only saw one other person for every day . |
| 5 | It got to the stage where we did n't bother to ask what happened to it . |
| 6 | But you see , today , I mean , if you go in Newmarket today that 's all tied up round in the windows where we did n't have it in the window , no not at all . |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't think why we did n't hold the ball outside , ’ said Ayling coming in with newspapers under his arm . |
| 8 | I wondered why we did n't do a bit more for them . |
| 9 | The last words of his opening contribution say : I feel sure that the time will come when people will ask why we did n't do more in this day and age to preserve those wise traditions that form mankind 's lifeline with the profoundly mysterious laws of the universe . |
| 10 | about erm why we did n't use bilingual staff for one of the particular dates . |
| 11 | why we did n't hear , what was thirteen . |
| 12 | The entrepreneurial Elizabeth Taylor ( no relation ) read an article about organic markets in France , les Marches Biologiques , and wondered why we did n't have any here . |
| 13 | Directly into a drain , so we never s that 's why we did n't see it , because the water was actually pouring down a drain , so of course we did n't see the water lolling up the waterlogged ground , otherwise we 'd have spotted it earlier . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't know why we did n't notice , Mil , ’ said Maud , rallying to her friend 's side . |
| 15 | Now Vinnie will realise why we did not sit down in the pub . |
| 16 | Given the history of European developments in the past 20 years , those people will also want to know why we did not learn from Britain 's earlier mistake . |
| 17 | They will want to know why we did not join the Community at its inception and fashion the very fabric of it to our advantage . |
| 18 | They will want to know why we did not appreciate the inconvenience and stupidity of having to change currency constantly as one moved from country to country in the Community . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , all the Government have done is to ask why we did not support the purchase of council houses or the provisions for grant-maintained schools . |
| 20 | We will be asked why we did not see the importance of the emerging European bloc on our doorstep . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's why we did not get tied up to a long deal before . |
| 22 | It is possible that the PCR signal in testis was due to blood contamination , however we did not detect Oct-11 expression in well-vascularised tissues such as kidney and liver . |