Example sentences of "[verb] why [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we 've got to guess why she said that . |
| 2 | ‘ You forget why we fought the War , Li Yuan . |
| 3 | Forget why you came . |
| 4 | I went to take Wendy 's laundry round Tuesday night I forget why I was , I do n't know , well I did n't call but I just drove on and got myself a says Jim you 're early tonight , quarter past ten . |
| 5 | baby-faced double killer was jailed for life … without revealing why he murdered two pretty teenagers . |
| 6 | I do n't ken why they used to blame my father for allowing them to stay , stay , and and er , och , you get a lot of animosity . |
| 7 | I ca n't find anyone who actually likes this offset idea , and you really do n't want to spend your playing career justifying why your instrument looks so wacky ; left to hang around the user 's neck , it does actually rest neck-up , as promised , although I would think that this has a fair bit to do with the strap button being under the top horn and slightly back towards the body . |
| 8 | Probably would n't have really mattered why they split up if they were that rubbish to start with . |
| 9 | Worth buying for the introduction alone , this collection of Burchill 's contributions to a variety of British papers and magazines ( including us , of course ) highlights why she has always been a great read . |
| 10 | Fans of the show say why they enjoy it . |
| 11 | Writing for TODAY , Paul said : ‘ I could get angry and bitter and say Why me ? |
| 12 | Will the Secretary of State come clean and say why his Government have the worst jobs record of any post-war Government in Britain ? |
| 13 | say why I just have n't got any . |
| 14 | Remember the format controls he will normally start off , sell first routine , then he or she will have er say , right at the very end , say why he say why he or she and that 's the format I want to follow . |
| 15 | Remember the format controls he will normally start off , sell first routine , then he or she will have er say , right at the very end , say why he say why he or she and that 's the format I want to follow . |
| 16 | say why you are phoning and give the job title and name of contact ; |
| 17 | You should discuss why you have come to your particular conclusions about its form of organisation . |
| 18 | And then we 'll discuss why I hate him , which invariably is because I feel threatened . |
| 19 | Aberdeen 's Eoin Jess , in the starting line-up for the first time , was the most consistent player throughout but the longer the game went on , the more Malta demonstrated why they have proved so difficult to beat . |
| 20 | Eoin Jess was the most consistent player throughout but the longer the game went on , the more Malta demonstrated why they have proved so difficult to beat . |
| 21 | Bob Hoover sponsored by Victor Aviation , flew the Shrike Commander in his famed ‘ energy management series ’ of engine-out manoeuvres ; Pepsi sponsored Joann Osterud in her ultimate 300 Biplane as well as Susan Asbury-Oliver in the Pepsi Skywriter ; First Interstate Bank brought Wayne Handley and his Raven to Reno ; Sean Tucker 's amazing aerobatics were sponsored by Randolph Sunglasses and Dreyer 's Ice Cream ; the Acme Duck and Airshow returned to Reno for a repeat of their funny comedy airshow act ; Scott Hammack 's Smoke n Thunder jet dragster was on hand to show what an afterburning J-34 jet engine can do for miles per hour versus miles per gallon ; seven-time U.S. National Aerobatic Champion Leo Loudenslager flew the Bud Light 200 in a routine that demonstrated why he is such a success in competition aerobatics ; and Team America added precision three ship aerobatics to the programme . |
| 22 | PAUL Peschisllibo , Birmingham City 's Canadian International striker , demonstrated why he is currently a player attracting considerable attention with a brilliant display of attacking football which destroyed the multi-million Derby side . |
| 23 | Having criticized the limits of the antiracist account of racism , this is an appropriate point at which to explicate my own conception of racism and to indicate why I think it is more persuasive ( cf. |
| 24 | As de Lattre presented his case , his plan to construct 1200 bunkers of the Siegfried Line-type ( one wonders why its French counterpart was not mentioned instead ) was to provide against future Chinese attacks but , on the assumption that the Chinese might be deterred , French success seemed to be simply a matter of US munitions and confidence and , although it might have been misleading as a performance indicator , at the end of his visit to the Pentagon de Lattre was rewarded with Defense Secretary Lovett 's assertion that General de Lattre was regarded as a comrade in arms and that the US would do everything they could for him that was within their capabilities . |
| 25 | Then she wonders why we have n't got on with the work . |
| 26 | So one wonders why they should have the ability to eat such a normally poisonous diet when there are so many other foods they can eat . |
| 27 | Actual details of food are fleeting : menus flash up , dishes make a brief appearance and the thief wonders why there is salt in the custard ( because it is Hollandaise , naturally ) . |
| 28 | She wonders why he has invited her into his office . |
| 29 | And he wonders why he 's got a |
| 30 | Susan is on the pill but wonders why she bothers when her husband is so sexually inactive . |