Example sentences of "[verb] why [pers pn] [verb] " 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 | baby-faced double killer was jailed for life … without revealing why he murdered two pretty teenagers . |
| 5 | Probably would n't have really mattered why they split up if they were that rubbish to start with . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Fans of the show say why they enjoy it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You should discuss why you have come to your particular conclusions about its form of organisation . |
| 10 | And then we 'll discuss why I hate him , which invariably is because I feel threatened . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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. |
| 14 | Then she wonders why we have n't got on with the work . |
| 15 | She wonders why he has invited her into his office . |
| 16 | And he wonders why he 's got a |
| 17 | Susan is on the pill but wonders why she bothers when her husband is so sexually inactive . |
| 18 | Susan is on the pill but wonders why she bothers when her husband is so sexually inactive . |
| 19 | Twice a day she swims and sometimes when she 's tired , she wonders why she keeps it up ; but the answer to that is she enjoys it so much . |
| 20 | She says that in retrospect , she wonders why she allowed herself to wade through it . |
| 21 | One thinks back to Morrissey in the early days and wonders why it has to be this way . |
| 22 | FRACTAL geometry is one of those concepts which at first sight invites disbelief but on second thought becomes so natural that one wonders why it has only recently been developed . |
| 23 | The suggestion that er we should join this er , I mean first of all I think that 's if they would allow us to join it , and obviously we realise why they want to join this , rather to the Archbishop of Canterbury saying he would like to join er sit in his cabinet and , and , this , this that sort of level of discussion . |
| 24 | But when you go by coach you you realise why you go by plane , you know ! |
| 25 | WATCHING JOHN McEnroe rant at a line judge recently , I was reminded why I like drinking Armagnac . |
| 26 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 27 | By the time he let her catch him , Claire had forgotten what he 'd said , and he had temporarily forgotten why he said it . |
| 28 | She had forgotten why she had come down to the garden in the first place . |
| 29 | I 'd almost forgotten why I came . |
| 30 | The strong normative bias in the study of social policy has led at times to a greater preoccupation with criticism of policies than with attempts to discover why they take the forms they do . |