Example sentences of "why [pers pn] have [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the start of the pitch I 'd been worried I could n't do it ; by the belay I was wondering why I 'd rested so often . |
| 2 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 3 | ‘ That is why I have come so far north on the ice . ’ |
| 4 | I can not imagine why yours have started so quickly , unless they are older than they look — they may have been kept in conditions where they have not grown on , due to overcrowding , or because they have been left with their parents for too long . |
| 5 | The knowledge disappeared as quickly as it had come ; but it had come in time to remind her of why she had waited so anxiously for Johnny to visit her ; to remind her of why she had longed for his return with such a burning impatience . |
| 6 | It seemed so quick and easy when the time came that she wondered why she had waited so long . |
| 7 | She had been tired after her early shift , which had necessitated getting up at six ; perhaps that was why she had slipped so easily into that state of contented , almost hypnotic languor . |
| 8 | She knew it annoyed Mrs. Mott , which was why she had agreed so peaceably to the girls not using the main staircase and the hall of the house to get to their sessions . |
| 9 | ‘ What I do n't see , ’ Pat says , interposing kindly from her belief that Kate is incapable of replying , ‘ is why you have to go so far . |
| 10 | Ca n't think why we 've stuck so long with people who knew something about the job . ’ |
| 11 | Why we have gone so long using our branch network as though it were doing the information job . |
| 12 | Desperately she fought back the tears , not knowing why they had formed so swiftly . |
| 13 | That was why they had seemed so dreamily bright before . |
| 14 | And Britain 's swim pin-up Sharon Davies added : ‘ We have all been told not to talk about the Chinese and why they have done so well here . ’ |
| 15 | Asked why it had taken so long for Doris to get back in touch with this world , Mr Lacey explained that it was probably the exhaustion caused by her illness , the brain operation and unsuccessful medical treatment . |
| 16 | If so , it could explain why he had waited so long for her , and why , now they had met again , he was handling their relationship so very carefully . |
| 17 | Manville remembered now , what it had all been about , why he had needed so desperately to return to this , at least once before he died . |
| 18 | Becker , who expects to encounter the 25-year-old Swede in the Davis Cup final here in December , can not understand why he has drifted so long . |
| 19 | I 'd like to know exactly why he 's gone so completely off his head . |