Sentence examples for I began why from inspiring English sources

If we wish to understand, I began, why the banking families of 15th-century Florence financed such an extraordinary flowering of the finest art, we have to take seriously the enemies of banking, and, above all, the church's ban on all interest-bearing loans – something the theologians called usury, and believed ran contrary to God's natural law.

"I'm just wondering," she began, "why the coalition is discriminating against mothers like me, who care for their children at home".

"My friends and I began wondering, why not here?

Early on in this crisis, I began wondering why the US didn't relapse into the Great Depression after World War II.

From then on, instead of saying, "That's the way it is," I began asking, "Why?" I moved to New York in 1993.

And then I began wondering why I was suddenly obsessed with these famous men (men of power, at that) when most of my writing life I've dwelled with the anonymous.

When I began asking why, many said something like this: "I took Econ 101 years ago, and there were all those horrible equations and graphs".

"I began thinking why hadn't anyone else ever made a film like this before".

I began questioning why certain animals were safe from consumption and others were not.

I began questioning why there aren't more of us in leadership positions, on our stages, in our classrooms... but so many of us fill up our jails.

I began to wonder why immigrants had to be chased like animals, and why I was being paid to chase them.