Example sentences of "why [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | And why me anyway ? |
2 | Why me out of all the other women in Spaxton ? |
3 | But can you tell me a reason why everyone else on the Base must die to protect your secret ? ’ |
4 | You noticed a vaguely pained expression enter Jackson 's eyes , as if he was wondering why nothing ever proved simple . |
5 | When we first saw Mark Cottrell 's fabric wraps around his handles/lines we wondered why no-one else had ever thought of the same idea . |
6 | You know being round here you might be tempted to do it but that 's why I just keep in me flat and out of the way . |
7 | I do n't regret it , of course — I might never have been a priest otherwise — but I often think that that 's why I just do n't seem able to come to grips with the modern world . ’ |
8 | That 's why I just keep my old ones up there that we use every da , er , you know |
9 | say why I just have n't got any . |
10 | That is one thing I , I , I do n't know why I just lovebites out . |
11 | no I ju , I du n no why I just think she 'll have a lad |
12 | That is why I willingly sent him anything I thought might be of sufficient merit to justify him , as a publisher , pronouncing upon it . |
13 | ‘ That 's why I immediately gave his name to the police . ’ |
14 | I 'm doing all these books , writing things and life is too short , time is passing too quickly , so that 's why I like my houses so much , and why I rarely go to other people 's houses . |
15 | That is why I particularly welcome the enthusiastic way in which they have embraced the patients charter and the accompanying document on internal management in the health service , ’ Framework for Action ’ . |
16 | He was spotty , too — oh dear , that was n't his fault , I do n't know why I even mentioned it . ’ |
17 | ‘ I do not know why I even trust you , but I have no men trained to use their hearts in the way you are able to as a gift of Ptah . |
18 | yeah but I mean , I it , I when I 'm fucking pissed , I ca n't sober , that 's why I probably think they 're , they 're not pulling a plonker cos I 've done that sort of thing in the past had me fucking climbing on bikes , swinging off the side of the building . |
19 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
20 | I fully understood what she was saying to you the day you visited Kinghorn , which is why I almost burst out laughing . ’ |
21 | That 's why I like |
22 | Which is why I personally ordered that the thing should be tracked twenty-four hours a day . |
23 | That is why I personally put the plan into operation , aided by Colonel Radl of the Abwehr , who 's had a heart attack , I understand , and is not expected to live . ’ |
24 | But it 's a , it 's a problem that , that you 've put your finger on , and this is why I personally think that a lot of this literature is of such a poor quality . |
25 | KEITH Thomas 's article on warm beer ( September ) highlights the main reason why I so rarely attend beer festivals these days . |
26 | that 's what I said to mum , you know , that 's why I so wanted to pass me , me test , cos I said to mum erm , see I kept it , I only had six hundred quid redundancy , six hundred and twenty eight pounds , that 's all I had , apart , I had me wages what was owed and me holiday pay , but my , me actual redundancy cheque was only six hundred and twenty eight quid |
27 | That 's why I really appreciate the frilly frock and big boots image of Hole , babes , etc — it symbolises a finger up the nose of the feminine stereotype — two opposing images together — frocks and boots and loud , trashy , aggressive music . |
28 | ‘ You know why I really came here , ’ he said , and the words might well have been memorised because he stared up at her in rather an abstracted manner as if his mind were on something else . |
29 | What I was really doing , up there in my private darkness , while below he played my mother 's old jazz records and new ones he 'd bought , why I really went so early was to have longer imagining him into his father . |
30 | I rang Michael and said I 'd like to go over and persuade him , and drove to his cottage and talked at length about how I saw it and why I really wanted his sort of ability and personality . |