Example sentences of "[vb infin] why [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know why they 'd ever had a little place yonder but there was crofts near everywhere , |
| 2 | I do n't know why they come here for in this weather it 's beautiful there |
| 3 | I do n't know why we drink so much and come up smelling of roses . |
| 4 | I do n't know why we drink so much . |
| 5 | She did n't know why she felt so scared . |
| 6 | I do n't know why I get too flattered you know . |
| 7 | Do you know why I talks loud ? |
| 8 | I do n't know why I think maybe the , the tablets helped , but erm I was saying I was kind of having second thoughts whether I was wanting to go on the H R T or |
| 9 | I do n't know why I bother though cos you never flipping win anything |
| 10 | I do n't know why I feel so possessive about the damned things . |
| 11 | After a while she said , ‘ I do n't know why I feel so strange sometimes . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know why you came here , Nicolo . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't know why you look so amazed . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't know why you work there . |
| 15 | And he said this and he was n't I mean particularly , he said oh she 's just , you know she , she 's like sailed through Haileybury , she gets out of everything , she , he , he 's really keen on the sports side of things here so I do n't know why he got so het up about it but he said it really er pissed him off the way she erm |
| 16 | Juliet could n't understand why she felt so nervous . |
| 17 | I do n't fully understand why he does so much to distance me . |
| 18 | Oh she said I 'm ever so sorry I was miles away , I said yeah we 've just said that , I said you never even heard us , so I said what you , you ca n't understand why you pay too much tax , she said no I know why I pay too much tax she said but more she said I used to be in business she said and I 'm on basic rate of tax , so I said yeah I 've had some of that , so she said what basic rate of tax , I said yeah where I 've come so , it 's a funny thing she said , I was saying to Carol the other day , she said erm , she said what a difference them blokes you work with , so I said yeah , I said I 'm always saying that about these so she said oh she said er |
| 19 | ‘ After our night together , when Peter turned up next day , you were so savage , as if you really did believe all those terrible things you were saying about me — I do n't understand why you changed so suddenly — ’ |
| 20 | My actual words I believe were something in the line of telling Helen to mind her own business and to keep her nose out of my affairs , but Beth and Ida could never understand why I reacted so violently . |
| 21 | In addition their cheapest rooms cost £30.00 per night , so you can see why we stayed there only two nights . |
| 22 | ‘ You can see why I remember so little . ’ |
| 23 | When we compare such a view with that of Althusser , we can see why he feels so strongly that the scope of Marx 's theory has not been recognised . |
| 24 | no , if Maureen 's the same at , at home as she is at work then you can see why she left home |
| 25 | It makes people wonder why he 's only had one season at top level , never been bought by a successful club , and why Kevin Keegan is letting him move on to Coventry now . |
| 26 | And do n't they wonder why you 've never married him ? ’ |
| 27 | In the mists of time I can not recall why we started so late . |
| 28 | No one would explain why it seemed so important . |
| 29 | The negotiations — and with them USL 's desire to conserve cash and pretty up its balance sheet as much as possible — might explain why it has so far put little muscle into marketing Destiny since its announcement in June ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 30 | Those jobs where we 've done badly because we can learn why they went badly and make sure that they do n't happen again . |