Example sentences of "[vb infin] why [pers pn] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know why they never have Easter |
| 2 | Do n't know why we never realised it before but Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive officer , Scott McNealy is the company 's largest single shareholder with about 2.1m shares or 2.2% of the outstanding stock , making him worth about $60m . |
| 3 | Do n't know why we never realized it before but Sun chief executive officer , Scott McNealy is the firm 's largest single shareholder with about 2.1m shares or 2.2% of the outstanding stock . |
| 4 | I will never understand why I went to Cookham on my first sentence — I got a YP [ young prisoner 's sentence ] and do n't know why I never went to borstal — they still had them then . |
| 5 | Do you know why I never took any of those women home , Jessamy ? |
| 6 | I do n't know why I never drove at home . |
| 7 | I do n't know why you never learned yourself to write your precious words . |
| 8 | ‘ I could n't understand why you never showed yourself when you were interrogating me . |
| 9 | It is of course possible that he was wrong in his initial assumption — which would explain why he never expanded his ‘ proof ’ in his notes — but we have to remember that the man was a mathematical genius . |