Example sentences of "why do you [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like , why did you feel the need to do this research on the RUC anyway ? … |
| 2 | I rather thought just wanted to contrast it with the other case and er it may not be obvious to the jury but why , why did you want a shot gun that 's a little shorter ? |
| 3 | ‘ Finn , ’ she asked because the approaches of sleep loosened her inhibitions , ‘ why did you make the peephole in the wall and look at me ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Why did you make the cut worse ? |
| 5 | ‘ Why did you open the letter ? ’ |
| 6 | Vera asks me : ‘ Why did you stay a Communist for so long , even after your friend was executed in 1950 ? '' ’ The friend in question had been a schoolmate and they had worked together in the resistance . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Why did you spare the two children , Adolph ? ’ |
| 9 | Why did you build the lake in advance of the inquiry ? |
| 10 | Why did you move the chair back where I left it ? |
| 11 | Why did you alter the books ? |
| 12 | ‘ Mrs Thatcher ’ , she asked , ‘ Why , when the Belgrano , the Argentinian battleship , was outside the exclusion zone and actually sailing away from the Falklands , why did you give the order to sink it ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Why did you leave the army , Mr Chatterton ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But why did you leave the Club ? |
| 15 | ‘ No , I mean , why did you leave the convent . |
| 16 | ‘ Why did you leave the Company Mo ? ’ |
| 17 | She switched to me : ‘ Why did you invent the threesome involving Rozanov ? ’ |
| 18 | Why did you join the Army ? |
| 19 | Well , as they said , why did you join the Army if you ca n't take a joke ? |
| 20 | Why did you take a whore ? |
| 21 | ‘ Why did you take the drugs ? ’ |
| 22 | Then why did you take the drug then ? |
| 23 | Why did you take the Gresham Street stuff there first ? ’ |
| 24 | Why did you take the jar upstairs ? |
| 25 | Why did you take the ? |
| 26 | He thought : And why did you have a gun for Christ 's sake ? |
| 27 | Why did you have a sweet at school ? |
| 28 | Why did you let the Men catch you again ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Why did you become a Muslim ? ’ he said . |
| 30 | ‘ Why did you get a taxi ? ’ he asked , watching her intently , his body very still . |