Example sentences of "[verb] why [pers pn] ever [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had never been an impressive priest — dispensing sacraments , sermons and whist-drive announcements with the same patient ennui , like a weary shopkeeper who has forgotten why he ever started to sell . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't know why I ever agreed to have this car . |
| 3 | ‘ Marlene , I do n't know why I ever wanted to marry you … ’ |
| 4 | When I think about it , he wrote , I find it difficult to remember why I ever embarked on it . |
| 5 | But difficult at times to remember why I ever made such a plan , he wrote . |
| 6 | And the embarrassed questioner retreats , apologising profusely , wondering why he ever fell into such absurd anxiety about this luminously sensible body of doctrine … |
| 7 | Maybe next year , we 'll wonder why we ever liked it , but today it 's one of the queerest and most exciting things in pop . |
| 8 | ‘ Julius will take one look at you and wonder why he ever bothered to kiss you last night . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Ca n't think why we ever got rid of the old bat . |
| 10 | With George 's anarchic tendencies I often wondered why he ever chose to work in such a highly structured and formal setting as the organisation . |
| 11 | Sometimes , he really wanted to abandon her , yet looking at her now he could not imagine why he ever felt that way . |
| 12 | ‘ God knows why you ever married me ! |