Sentence examples for enquired why from inspiring English sources

One traffic cop enquired why a motorist had erred from the white lines.

As Dusty Springfield's voice faded out, Wright gently enquired why Theresa May was saying she needed a proper industrial strategy if George's own industrial strategy had been so good.

I started to wonder if my £10m travel insurance policy would cover a helicopter coming in to get me right about now when my friend Helen enquired: "Why didn't we find out exactly what canyoning was?" "I don't know".

A propos of a passage in which she removes her night-dress before making love, the voice enquired why this 'strip-tease' was necessary; one assumed, charitably, that the question had been carelessly phrased.

One of the very first features I ever wrote rashly enquired why women dominated fiction but rarely wrote plays: I was deluged with letters, and manuscripts, pointing out the reasons were entirely circumstantial and determined by the fact the theatre was largely governed by male tastes.

One, likely jet-lagged, visitor asked: "When is the changing of the guard at the White House?" While another, unimpressed by the planning behind historic royal residences, enquired: "Why on earth did they build Windsor Castle on the flight path of Heathrow Londonon's Underground system also appears to have tourists flummoxed.

When he did realise that everyone else in the room was a journalist, he took the opportunity to enquire why Bodies hadn't won anything.

It didn't even cross her mind at that moment to enquire why a boy of that age couldn't travel by himself, or indeed, why his parents, the Glovers, didn't come home to collect him themselves.

The story of its ruin is simple and obvious; and instead of enquiring why the Roman Empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.

On behalf of her readers, Lady Florence enquires: "Why Patagonia?" She answers: "Nowhere is there an area of 100,000 square miles which you may gallop over, and where, whilst enjoying a healthy, bracing climate, you are safe from the persecutions of fevers, friends, savage tribes, obnoxious animals, telegrams, letters and every other nuisance…" Substitute texts and emails and not much has changed.

This paper seeks to enquire why firms ceteris paribus tend to concentrate their R&D activities at home, using a systems of innovation (SI) approach.