Example sentences of "ask [Wh adv] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems arise when we shift to the first person , asking how we come to have knowledge of the world , and asking how we are justified in dismissing the possibility that reality is wholly other than we take it to be . |
| 2 | The problems arise when we shift to the first person , asking how we come to have knowledge of the world , and asking how we are justified in dismissing the possibility that reality is wholly other than we take it to be . |
| 3 | Ethics is normally thought of as dealing with questions of action , asking how we ought to act , what it is , in various circumstances , our duty to do , and how we can know it . |
| 4 | People would stop in the street asking how we were and where we had come from all in perfect English . |
| 5 | Emma is always asking when we will go back , and our only worry now is that in a few years she will probably be waking us up at dawn on icy mornings , saying : ‘ Shall we go down the black run first ? ’ |
| 6 | Rather we should begin by asking why we have a distinction between public and private law . |
| 7 | A final section asks how we shall all know whether LMS itself is a success . |
| 8 | James Anderson , of Jarrow , asks how we managed to miss the series of disasters at nuclear power stations that occurred in the former Soviet Union during the mid-1990s , causing the flight of tens of millions of people towards western Europe and triggering the ‘ Refugee Wars ’ of 1995–96 . |
| 9 | ( When asked how we are feeling , how often do we shrug our shoulders and say ‘ Well , OK , I suppose ’ ? ) |
| 10 | If we now ask how we could discover that all action is to be explained in non-intentional terms , and at the same time take the point that it could not be non-intentional in the way that mad or childish behaviour is , it seems that we should have to come to see all action quite differently . |
| 11 | If we now ask how we are able to get any grasp of the explanatory role of class strategy in Poulantzas ' theory , the answer is that we rely on our everyday , voluntarist understanding of it . |
| 12 | We ask how we can make environmental objectives tie in with business objectives — which means profit . |
| 13 | But also anomalies : a reader asks why we have Yorkshiremen but not Northamptonshiremen . |
| 14 | And , in more serious vein , David Corrigan , of Newport , asks why we ignored ‘ the coming environmental crisis [ that ] is more certain , and more real , than any of the speculative imaginings of your writers ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ What if he asks where we were ? ’ |
| 16 | We will be asked why we did not see the importance of the emerging European bloc on our doorstep . |
| 17 | I was asked why we can not suspend the law , and I have explained why that would not be possible . |
| 18 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 19 | These are the astonished questions we ask when we first read the poem . |
| 20 | Yet it is inevitable that at the present time of confusion and reform we ask why we should be dependent upon these two great blocks of examinations , at these two particular points in a student 's school career . |
| 21 | I asked how we were going to wake up because I for one did n't have an alarm clock on me , and he said , ‘ Always wake up when I want . |
| 22 | They asked how we linked words with objects . |
| 23 | He asked how we are going to pay for the borrowing . |
| 24 | " The judge asked how we could possibly do any more with the garden , and it 's true that the only way forward is by making small changes , which we like to do as it gives us so much enjoyment . " |
| 25 | At Watford Gap , though , everything was fine , and a nice tea lady saw my shirt and asked how we 'd got on . |
| 26 | David rushed out of the house and asked where we were going . |
| 27 | He did n't answer at first , then asked where we 'd be staying . |
| 28 | IT 'S NOT easy , in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington , to explain the importance of The Oval cricket ground in Kennington , yet such was my lot when in 1978 , shortly after my family and I had left South Africa following certain differences of opinion with our government , President Jimmy Carter kindly invited my in and asked why we had chosen Britain and not America as our country of refuge . |
| 29 | The right hon. Gentleman asked why we were introducing a Bill on this subject . |
| 30 | Mr asked why we should close our homes and let private homes profit erm , if people choose either to go into the private sector or to stay into their own homes , what are we supposed to do tell them they 've got no choice but to keep our substandard homes going ? |