Example sentences of "be why [pers pn] have never [verb] " in BNC.

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1 We agree with MacGowan and Reeves that the half life may be inaccurate if it is calculated from only two values ; but perhaps that is why they have never seen a patient with normal renal function in whom the half life is as long as 7.6 hours , since in clinical practice two measurements are all one has to go on .
2 Never , but you do n't usually get any from me that 's why you 've never asked .
3 That 's why I 've never married .
4 He did not want that to happen again ; perhaps , he reasoned , it was why he had never asked her to move in with him .
5 There was , Henry felt , something rather unsavoury about Maltby. perhaps that was why he had never worked up the notes he had made on the case .
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