Example sentences of "why [pron] ever " in BNC.
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| 1 | You noticed a vaguely pained expression enter Jackson 's eyes , as if he was wondering why nothing ever proved simple . |
| 2 | But difficult at times to remember why I ever made such a plan , he wrote . |
| 3 | When I think about it , he wrote , I find it difficult to remember why I ever embarked on it . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know why I ever agreed to have this car . |
| 5 | ‘ Why I ever allowed Stephen to talk me into coming here is beyond me . |
| 6 | ‘ Marlene , I do n't know why I ever wanted to marry you … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ God knows why you ever married me ! |
| 8 | ‘ Emma , why you ever took up silversmithing instead of romantic fiction , I 'll never know . ’ |
| 9 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 10 | ‘ Ca n't think why we ever got rid of the old bat . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Why they ever married I shall never know . |
| 13 | Brian can remember nothing of the accident — to this day it a mystery why it ever happened . |
| 14 | And the embarrassed questioner retreats , apologising profusely , wondering why he ever fell into such absurd anxiety about this luminously sensible body of doctrine … |
| 15 | And let me assist such reflections by reporting that a gifted and earnest English poet of thirty-two , whom I met this very summer , not only confessed that he had never read through Basil Bunting 's Briggflatts , but quite plainly saw no reason why he ever should . |
| 16 | To the observer this decision of 1955 looks as hard or harder ; to agree to accept a post which he expected to hate , and for which he regarded himself as unsuitable , and in which he would have to neglect that scholarship which was essential to his happiness and to his sense of vocation and to the reason why he ever became a bishop at all , if the leaders of the Church declared that this was where he was needed . |
| 17 | He had hundreds of shirts and why he ever wanted me to iron them I 'll never know . |
| 18 | Grierson was a West Highland Scot , as was immediately evident from his accent , an accent which he never attempted to conceal for the excellent reason that he saw no earthly reason why he ever should . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Sometimes , he really wanted to abandon her , yet looking at her now he could not imagine why he ever felt that way . |
| 21 | ‘ Julius will take one look at you and wonder why he ever bothered to kiss you last night . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Why he ever enjoyed working with this strange , often unsympathetic , superficially quite humourless man , well , he never quite knew . |
| 24 | Why he ever bothered with them ? |
| 25 | It is so simple to make that , provided you have all the ingredients , I can not imagine why anyone ever buys the ready-prepared varieties . |