Example sentences of "to why we " in BNC.

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1 I am still puzzled , to this day , as to why we did n't simply demand a refund and leave ; probably because we had all been looking forward to getting away so much that we were prepared to tolerate anything .
2 ‘ I ca n't give any answers as to why we were beaten , but I felt we were turning the corner and starting to play the Liverpool way again .
3 ‘ Sulaiman put his case as to why we should fight Tucker first , and I put mine to him about a voluntary defence , and he replied that if that was Lennox 's wish , the WBC would do all in their power to grant it . ’
4 The more intellectual and sophisticated we become , the more we are tempted to assign all sorts of reasons to why we have contact with particular people .
5 We stayed there for ten and a half years until 15 September 1991 , without ever having any explanation as to why we were being held .
6 Most of us should have some clues as to why we are as we are .
7 The explanation that is usually given as to why we do n't see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table is that it is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics .
8 I still remain a wee bit puzzled as to why we do n't try to recruit more than one member in any one large organisation , eg the exclusion of Scottish Power people simply because we have a [ Stewart ] member already .
9 I 'd decided to pay cash rather than use the PKB Amex card as that would have given the game away as to why we were there .
10 ‘ Yeah , ’ she said without a flicker of suspicion as to why we were interested .
11 Well let's have a look at a few figures then , as to why we do need to consider it .
12 Well that 's , that 's well that 's all I can recollect in relation to why we did it the way we did .
13 Er the reason we wan na get it right is because er this Superintendent , erm he 's obviously got his interests very much on it , and he 's he 's keen to know what our response is going to be , and if it were just a member of the public I think we could we could being crude I think we could fob 'em off , but I think it 's gon na have to be a very structured answer as to why we 're not gon na do it .
14 Just gone , we 're obviously working to Italian time in this Italian job because we 've had really five minutes of stoppage time at the end of the first half and I 'm a bit baffled as to why we had it .
15 We have to answer questions to our children as to why we 've got a siren that 's visible for everybody around , right level with the bedrooms , in the middle of an estate .
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