Example sentences of "why [pron] [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we first saw Mark Cottrell 's fabric wraps around his handles/lines we wondered why no-one else had ever thought of the same idea . |
| 2 | say why I just have n't got any . |
| 3 | I do n't regret it , of course — I might never have been a priest otherwise — but I often think that that 's why I just do n't seem able to come to grips with the modern world . ’ |
| 4 | I fully understood what she was saying to you the day you visited Kinghorn , which is why I almost burst out laughing . ’ |
| 5 | What I was really doing , up there in my private darkness , while below he played my mother 's old jazz records and new ones he 'd bought , why I really went so early was to have longer imagining him into his father . |
| 6 | ‘ You know why I really came here , ’ he said , and the words might well have been memorised because he stared up at her in rather an abstracted manner as if his mind were on something else . |
| 7 | Come to think of it , even when the taxman wrote to me , he spelled it c-u-r ; which is why I never wrote back . |
| 8 | I can not say why I suddenly became so curious about him . |
| 9 | That 's why I still cope now with all the everyday things like the ironing and housework . |
| 10 | That 's why I still do n't like her . ’ |
| 11 | Which is why she still prefers not to speak of them . |
| 12 | Charity was not sure why she suddenly felt so … uneasy was not quite the word . |
| 13 | She had no idea why she suddenly looked back , as they set off across the level turf that stretched above that mysterious underworld of brick-built labyrinths . |
| 14 | Mrs Chalmers is standing beside me , tutting and shifting from foot to foot — she has varicose veins , and does not like standing , which is why she always sits down to sort the bulbs . |
| 15 | Oh you 're on holiday for a couple of days , I mean you 'd have thought you know , since you 're on holiday just have a little drinky or two but no ca n't persuade her , ca n't you tell me why you just come out of a Yorkshire pub . |
| 16 | Oh I do n't see why you just sleep out in the garden or something |
| 17 | ‘ But why you no say so before , baby ? |
| 18 | I do n't know why you always have so many procedures remain in does it ? |
| 19 | ‘ And that 's why you always look so sad , ’ I thought . |
| 20 | That 's why you obviously do n't like playing it then in n it ? |
| 21 | ‘ Emma , why you ever took up silversmithing instead of romantic fiction , I 'll never know . ’ |
| 22 | I do n't know what view of these events my uncles took as we woke them early and followed them around as faithfully as any spaniel — maybe that was why they often nipped off to the pub in the evenings . |
| 23 | Wondering why they never write back . |
| 24 | Perhaps this persistent whiff of the past is why it actually seems more European — more like the Algiers of Camus 's essays than Algiers itself . |
| 25 | Oh I do n't know why he just does n't turn the boat so the current was too much for the |
| 26 | This theory explains nicely why he sometimes does not react in tune with his own interests , that is , he gets it wrong . |
| 27 | That is why he never took up any of the opportunities to teach that he had in his later life . ’ |
| 28 | The letter from the plaintiffs solicitors in respect of question of interest one causes , the letter of the twenty ninth of January of nineteen ninety two , asking Mr to confirm , that in addition to the settlement figure of forty two thousand pounds in respect of costs he 'd be paying interest until the date of payment , and er , there was never a mind that erm which find a reply to in , in thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two by Mr , there 's no unqualified agreement in figure of forty two thousand pounds , I do not wish to appear obstructive but your clients must recognise that there are effectively two issues to be resolved , namely the payment of their costs and the division of the parts of other property , surely in all parties interest that none of these are resolved , so it is surely in all party interest that those , those are resolved contemporary and then the letter goes on to dealing with questions of valuation , the bottom paragraph on page thirty two in the bundle says in answer to your letter therefore is that there is no agreement to pay interest , if there is then my client must be credited with interest on his costs , and then it says surgery and finally if ove if overall agreement can not be reached then my client reserves his rights on the issue of costs and I feel that this could lead to an acrimonious and protracted taxation , at the end of the day I suspect it would only be enforced the order for costs about taking a charge in my clients interest in the surgery premises , does that improve your clients position at all , as I say that was the position of the thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two and during the remainder of nineteen ninety two there were then further negotiations , some of them appeared to have been carried out er personally between er doctor and er doctor which seems to of been the partner , dealing with the plaintiffs position and er he says about his non negotiable offer at page forty one in the bundle apparently attached to a letter of the twenty first of December nineteen ninety two and er that had a time limit on , the twenty second of March , there was a reminder on the twenty second of February and erm the plaintiffs solicitors wrote on the fourteenth of April nineteen ninety three raising the question of costs erm say that erm we have now received your clients instructions , that they would be prepared to accept the sum of forty two thousand in respect of their standard basis costs which is inclusive of V A T and disbursements , you remember that our initial schedule of costs which I set part of my letter of the eighth of October total fifty thousand , nine hundred and ninety eight pounds , twenty six pence , in addition to this our client would require interest from the which is as of todays date at seven hundred and sixty days at seventeen pounds , twenty six a day totalling thirteen thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds , sixty , in the circumstances I look forward to receiving your clients cheque for the sum of fifty five thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds and sixty pence within the next seven days and then it says I believe you were certainly agreeing have been very patient concerning your clients costs , but now we wish these to be paid and that was responded to er Mr on the twenty second of April er but why he quite has not been directly involved in the conversation for some time and there was not reasonable expected response for seven days from him , er and then he goes on to say that although he appreciates his firm is still on the record , I shall seek instructions from my client , but it maybe he would wish to give notice of acting in person and indeed that is in fact what happened , what happened in this case . |