Example sentences of "know why [pers pn] should [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not know why she should feel such fear , because she felt for her mother not respect , but contempt : and why should she lack courage before someone whose attitudes were to her so transparently , pettily contemptible ? |
| 2 | ‘ I do not know why I should tell you , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Would you bother , editor of Penthouse here , I mean I do n't know why , I do n't know why I should think you know what women want , I guess you know what men want ? |
| 4 | I do n't know why I should burden you with this and make an exhibition of myself in front of eveN– one . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know why you should feel gratitude , ’ Sophie said coolly . |
| 6 | Indeed , you 've been afraid to hold up your end of a rockin' conversation , paralysed by the knowledge that you alone do not possess the second Squirrel Bait album — and worse , you do n't even know why you should possess any Squirrel Bait albums , let alone the second one . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't know why you should want me , I 'm no good , but you do . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know why you should think that . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know why you should think I 'd object to a frisky man , military or otherwise . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know why you should have led me to believe he was some kind of old buffer . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't say I wanted to go to bed with you , but that I wanted to make love to you ; a subtle difference , ’ he chided , ‘ and I do n't know why you should look so disbelieving — you have a lovely supple body … |
| 12 | Do you know why you should seek a massage ? |
| 13 | We are pensioners with no help from Income Support so I want to know why we should pay for these people , a lot of them are much better off than we are and can afford to smoke and drink . |
| 14 | You know why they should employ you given you know what are your skills |
| 15 | But there is no issue for which simply to deduce from socially prescribed principles combined with factual propositions would be anything but a mechanical conformity ; I know why I should do the prescribed thing only if , at least at my moments of fullest awareness from other viewpoints , I feel moved to do so . |
| 16 | God knows why I should have thought of his crazy story again . |
| 17 | Goodness knows , you hear somebody saying sometimes , goodness knows why he should suffer like that , he never did any harm to anyone . |