Example sentences of "say why [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 2 | They say why do you have to talk about that just now . |
| 3 | So everyone goes out , buys a gun and when a policeman says why have you got that gun ? |
| 4 | eh brutal , er brute , er so many er only got a little bit more , eh sort of like you 've got er , I du n no , accent or something or add to it a few words , a few letters I mean , er a more I , a different accent you go to Manchester they said er different accent you go and so different one and to me from the beginning , not now , but from the beginning I was fascinate , I says why do they finish in Italian er ways , or add , you switch and them coins , erm , it still says |
| 5 | The next time I see you you 'll be saying why did I eat all that |
| 6 | ‘ It 's like saying why do you breathe ? ’ , he said . |
| 7 | She said I do n't know what your there 's a missing , so I it said Mr G , so dad said why does it say Mr and er , she said it 's a court order she said , court order , she said er that has been in the yard |
| 8 | Oh I ca n't tell you that I would n't never discuss things like that , until I got about twenty five , you know neighbours or not , and I said why did they call him ? |
| 9 | She said when , when Mrs said why did you ask Emma she goes , cos we asked you to go the cinema all the time . |
| 10 | Policeman come over and said why did you kill all these three , these three spastics . |
| 11 | Okay , let's John said why did I reduce it and you have n't , I have to say , really explained to people why we are doing what we are doing now , why we are n't here discussing why there 's another half million in the budget . |
| 12 | David the psalmist , he could see the wicked , and he said why do they prosper ? |
| 13 | They said why do we get poor materials ? |
| 14 | I said why do you work full time ? |
| 15 | Of course , the woman said why do you come ? |
| 16 | erm she 's got a family Margaret , she said she wo n't go there any more she I , I do n't know whether that er Jean does so Did n't she just cotton on quickly , she said do you know that , I said why do I want anybody wandering in my house and my kitchen , I said it 's a bit like it 's clean , why should I have somebody sort of , well I mean just because I 'm doing cooking , she said you would n't stop fancy one , you never know , she said well unless you want to stop at the , please do n't , you 'll let me still have your jam wo n't you ? |
| 17 | Yeah well Robert said why have we stopped so I said I think we 're looking because it 's a typical new house and daddy wants to see what typical new houses now offer . |
| 18 | We 've sent letters to everybody , the Home Office , everywhere , and to say why have they put it up in the middle of an estate . |
| 19 | When I was a trainee my deputy fresh foods went it with me , and like he 'd sit there and he 'd say right this is how you do it at first and then he 'd let me do some and well I 'd do them and he 'd say why have you done that and I 'd tell him and then he 'd let me do it |