Example sentences of "why [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why we have all been doing it , von Weizsacker , Theo Kordt in London , his brother Erich in Berlin , Canaris , Carl Burckhardt , Dahlerus , Wenner-Gren . |
| 2 | This was why they had all been calling him ‘ sir ’ . |
| 3 | About how Mr Harker was going out of business , which was why they 'd all been pushed harder than ever the last few weeks . |
| 4 | The laws are kept because of our faith ; it is possible to see why they have even been called ‘ the secret of our survival ’ . |
| 5 | That is why the game is called a dilemma , why it seems so maddeningly paradoxical , and why it has even been proposed that there ought to be a law against it . |
| 6 | It is difficult to see why it has ever been supposed otherwise-that generality and number in themselves somehow fight with causation sensibly conceived . |
| 7 | As he recited familiar words , Jaq puzzled why he had really been detailed to be present on Stalinvast during its purge . |