Example sentences of "why do [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then why did we change the name if we were so proud of him ? ’ |
| 2 | Why did they choose the ditch and not the road ? |
| 3 | And why did they leave the church house ? |
| 4 | Why did they leave the church house ? |
| 5 | Why did they move the arms in the first place ? |
| 6 | Why did they think the Earth was flat for ? |
| 7 | Why did they choose to omit a particular miracle and why did they change the chronology elsewhere ? |
| 8 | Why did they put the plaque so low down , I wondered . |
| 9 | Why did they put the cat in the window ? |
| 10 | He considered whether he could tell if they were black or very brightly coloured ; and if black , why did they have the brilliance that usually attached to colour ? |
| 11 | If the gang knew you were coming why did they allow the pay-off to continue ? |
| 12 | Why did she collect the knives and forks and clear the table ? |
| 13 | ‘ And just why did she stay the night in Piazza Pitti ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ If Deveril changed her name , why did she carry the motto of her family with her ? ’ |
| 15 | Why did she deliver the message then ? |
| 16 | There was no trace of a smile on his face , so why did she have the feeling he was laughing at her ? |
| 17 | Why did she have the feeling that he knew something she did n't ? |
| 18 | Why did she have the sudden feeling that she was no longer in control ? |
| 19 | Why did she get the feeling that in any argument with Niall Grant , he would always come out the winner ? |
| 20 | Why did she get the distinct impression that she had just been steamrollered ? |
| 21 | So why did she get the feeling that she had n't won the battle , but merely postponed the war ? |
| 22 | Why did I choose the same piece , The Education of Children ? |
| 23 | Now why did I get the impression that you cared what happens to your father ? |
| 24 | Like , why did you feel the need to do this research on the RUC anyway ? … |
| 25 | ‘ Finn , ’ she asked because the approaches of sleep loosened her inhibitions , ‘ why did you make the peephole in the wall and look at me ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Why did you make the cut worse ? |
| 27 | ‘ Why did you open the letter ? ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ Why did you spare the two children , Adolph ? ’ |
| 30 | Why did you build the lake in advance of the inquiry ? |