Example sentences of "why [pers pn] [verb] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's why I 've never married . |
| 2 | I asked him once why I 'd never seen him mentioned in any of the endless stuff about his movement , and he said he thought some of them had to stay anonymous . |
| 3 | Granda 's fondness for alcohol is one of the reasons why I have never touched it in my life … although I do admit to having some rum sauce once . |
| 4 | They were the reasons why she had never wanted children . |
| 5 | Asked why she had never fled when she first felt in danger from her husband she replied : ‘ I was too frightened to get any help , I felt like a prisoner with nowhere to go . ’ |
| 6 | Never , but you do n't usually get any from me that 's why you 've never asked . |
| 7 | 'Is that why you 've never told me before what happened with you and Peter before we all went to New York ? |
| 8 | And do n't they wonder why you 've never married him ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps it did , because I was wondering why you 'd never vouchsafed that interesting titbit of information before , ’ he mused . |
| 10 | All over the country hurt and disillusioned journalists and would-be journalists wondering why they had never received a reply could only presume that they had been rejected . |
| 11 | I was first taken to see these ‘ houses ’ by my father when I was nine ; I have often wondered since then why they had never become a tourist attraction . |
| 12 | And because they were not so well known the audiences were always enchanted and wondered why they had never heard them before . |
| 13 | We agree with MacGowan and Reeves that the half life may be inaccurate if it is calculated from only two values ; but perhaps that is why they have never seen a patient with normal renal function in whom the half life is as long as 7.6 hours , since in clinical practice two measurements are all one has to go on . |
| 14 | It is a great mystery why they have never asked why . |
| 15 | He did not want that to happen again ; perhaps , he reasoned , it was why he had never asked her to move in with him . |
| 16 | There was , Henry felt , something rather unsavoury about Maltby. perhaps that was why he had never worked up the notes he had made on the case . |