Example sentences of "why do we [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Why did we not get but I wan na do that part ! |
| 3 | Why did we not buy another younger centre half ? |
| 4 | Why did we always talk of it as ‘ the age of the Grammar School ’ ? |
| 5 | Why did we never see the child ? |
| 6 | Why do we generally make wine from grapes rather than any other fruit ? |
| 7 | But if our views are coloured by prejudice and familiarity , why do we already eat many foodstuffs that in theory should be much harder to swallow ? |
| 8 | Why do we not throw off this hangover of socialism and instead celebrate a free enterprise day , a British export day or , better still , a low taxation day ? |
| 9 | Why do we not offer discounts for full payment ? |
| 10 | Why do we not mimic the professionals or their caddies in other areas of the game ? |
| 11 | If the purpose is to protect the individual , why do we not sign the European social charter , as every other country is prepared to do ? |
| 12 | Why do we not start talking about some of our successes ? |
| 13 | Why do we not hear of the Government 's estimates , even of their own proposals , never mind the MacSharry proposals ? |
| 14 | Why do we not add them to the list of axioms given above ? |
| 15 | Why do we not insist that presuppositions be proved too ? |
| 16 | Why do we not query everything , even the act of querying itself ? |
| 17 | Why do we not have his intellectual contribution to this debate ? |
| 18 | So why do we not see more Killies in dealers ' tanks ? |
| 19 | Why do we not say that each of the syllables ‘ is ’ and ‘ it ’ carries a level tone ? |
| 20 | Why do we not take yesterday as the causal circumstance for last night ? |
| 21 | The the first question is this is this thing about nerves is n't it because that 's the first feeling you have when you got up get up here is and as said I 'm dry already and I have n't even been up there and done it yet the voice is dry and you know then you feel a bit shaky and all that sort of thing and why do we why do we feel nervous ? |
| 22 | Why do we why do we use visual aids like the overhead projector and the flip chart why do we use the things at all ? |
| 23 | After glasses had been refilled one of us — Tony , I think — said , ‘ Why do we just talk about it ? |
| 24 | Why do we even come to the Netherlands ? |
| 25 | I 'd still go out and do the same tomorrow , but it makes you wonder why do we really bother because we 're not getting the backing we need . |
| 26 | Why do we always argue about fishing rights and seem to have very little argument about oil ? |
| 27 | Why the criticism , and why do we often get things wrong ? |
| 28 | But it 's just a foul old tip , Ruth thought ; why do we still have to come here ? |
| 29 | That 's right , I mean why di why have we got the structure of agriculture as we have , you know why why do we still have an atomistical industry right , it 's not just a , a freak of nature , there are economic laws , erm , and opinion that s , that structure the industry and it 's because you just do n't get economies of scale staying in agriculture . |
| 30 | Disposable society : So why do we still hear clamour from the environmentally conscious that plastics represent everything bad in our disposable society ? |