Example sentences of "[vb past] why [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Riven forgot why he had come , and stood in grudging admiration for their speed and sureness . |
| 4 | I guessed why she had brought me round into the shadow . |
| 5 | We found some people who are just mad about hats and discovered why they like their favourite headgear . |
| 6 | As he recited familiar words , Jaq puzzled why he had really been detailed to be present on Stalinvast during its purge . |
| 7 | Bedroom has got a , it 's in an alcove so you 'll have that piece where it 's bottom of the stairs or wherever , I mean , the , stand on slip mats you 're gon na get that because of the , the airing cupboard is part of the hall , part of the bedroom and nothing you can do about that one , and on the wall it 's just gon na be one length of each room , cut off , perfect , , actually they do n't normally do that , they usually just the measurement , cos I not , never understood why they do n't have measurements there all standard , you guarantee use the one strip of another roll |
| 8 | I never understood why we got in the tangled bureaucratic mess of the community charge to pick up the tiny amount of 3 million out of 42.5 million people . |
| 9 | he said he understood why we wanted to do it . |
| 10 | Huy understood why he had been dropped here , from where a large number of roads led off back to the various parts of the city , but guessed that they had underestimated his knowledge of the twisting muddle of streets that formed the harbour quarter . |
| 11 | That was when she understood why he looked so strange . |
| 12 | Although she understood why he wanted her to bend the truth , it still went against the grain . |
| 13 | All at once he pictured again the sun striking the glass and understood why it had done so . |
| 14 | A little overwhelmed by the extent of his authority , she understood why she 'd been drawn to him . |
| 15 | He understood why she did n't move . |
| 16 | I understood why I had been urged to hurry . |
| 17 | One officer , a really nice screw , a senior officer called Mrs [ R ] , understood why I wanted to be moved off the pregnant house and got me moved the next day . |
| 18 | God alone knew why we wanted to sail to New Zealand together , except that in a strange way we were friends . |
| 19 | Now he knew why no-one knew him + it was all his own fault . |
| 20 | At least they knew why they suffered . ’ |
| 21 | He knew why they had swept him from his horse and he was terrified of what they would do to him . |
| 22 | I never knew why they went out of their way to hurt her ’ |
| 23 | He knew why they waited . |
| 24 | Under his gaze she had to go to the sitting-room where she had slept , while he knew why she went and knelt by the sleeping-bag , which was only just out of his line of sight . |
| 25 | And then he knew why she had come . |
| 26 | She had known Sam all her life and though he was a worthy and hard-working man , she knew why she had held back from agreeing to marry him . |
| 27 | Of course she knew why she had been so anxious to come ; there must be some , perhaps many , people here who could tell her about S. Kettering . |
| 28 | She also knew why she had come here with him today . |
| 29 | All right , he now knew why she had come — not to follow him as he 'd thought , but to deliver the letters ; but that still did n't explain his anger . |
| 30 | She knew why she had pulled away from him the night before — because she could n't allow herself to become remotely interested in him . |