Example sentences of "why [verb] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with And , but I was told that English had changed since the time of King James , In that case , I argued , why make us read the Bible ? |
| 2 | Why did we bother coming ? |
| 3 | Goibniu remembered that Gnomes were reportedly extremely greedy , but said they would take a look at the designs now , if the Gnomes were quite ready , thus galvanising the Gnomes into anxious industry , resulting in much unpacking of knapsacks and unrolling of parchments and remarks such as , ‘ Who 's got the plan of the turquoise bracelet ? ’ and ‘ Why did we bring along four sketches for the everyday silver tiara ? ’ and ‘ Flaherty 's sitting on the Coronation sceptre ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Then why did we change the name if we were so proud of him ? ’ |
| 5 | Think about it : why did we go to the cinema , in those days ? |
| 6 | ‘ Why did we go to Sheen ? ’ |
| 7 | Why did we go this long way ? |
| 8 | Why did we do so much better than the pundits and opinion polls predicted ? |
| 9 | erm and I think that if it is pulled down for this new development , in ten year 's time we will look back and we will say ‘ Why did we do this ? |
| 10 | Structured thought which had as its main attributes three themes of course before you had that you had to have a clear objective which helped you to choose what those three themes were , and why why did we choose three as a based on |
| 11 | ‘ Why did we stop ? |
| 12 | Why did we demonstrate ? |
| 13 | Now why did we did we subtract this three from that five . |
| 14 | Marlon : Why did we have to come shopping ? |
| 15 | I simply wish to point out that if it is supposed that Karen Parsons and I embarked that afternoon with the intention of drowning her husband , why did we wait till we had reached a point where our criminal acts were overlooked by at least fifteen witnesses ? |
| 16 | Why did we respond in the way that we did ? |
| 17 | But why did we get a reasonable result for the electric field ? |
| 18 | Q : Why did we close a Johnson Brothers factory last year if the brand is so important ? |
| 19 | Well why did we buy Gabiadini ? |
| 20 | Yet , at the same time , why do we assume that a technological civilization will have the slightest desire to quest among the stars ? |
| 21 | Why do we assume that rage , aggression , violence are products of frustration ? |
| 22 | It could involve a civil engineering student considering the social effects of a new construction — in other words , taking on a sociological perspective ; it could be a student of English trying to answer the question ‘ What is literature and why do we assume that it is a good thing ? ’ — and so embracing the thinking of moral philosophy ; it might be a student in the performing arts trying to understand how and why a particular tradition had evolved — so embarking on a historical study ; it could be a chemistry student being invited to consider the effects on the natural environment of industrial or agricultural chemicals — so adding a biological approach to the subject ; or it might be a social science student keen on human perspectives being encouraged to look at underlying statistical patterns . |
| 23 | In response to the related questions of why do we enforce contracts and what contracts should we enforce , liberal philosophy points towards two kinds of answer . |
| 24 | WHY DO WE age and die , instead of staying young forever ? |
| 25 | Why do we cling to unhappiness and misfortune ? |
| 26 | Why do we consume animal flesh ? |
| 27 | ‘ Why do we want everlasting stripes again ? ’ he said . |
| 28 | Why do we want to make money ? |
| 29 | ‘ Why do we want to do that ? ’ |
| 30 | And what about us — why do we want to get educated ? ’ |