Example sentences of "why [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is one reason why I 've just started to learn the piano . |
| 2 | That 's why I 've never married . |
| 3 | ‘ I naturally believe that the financial profits of the drug-suppliers are offensive , ’ Ellen said , ‘ which is why I 've only used cocaine on a handful of occasions . |
| 4 | Why I kept almost forgetting . |
| 5 | And why I went there to buy them , was because it was the same climate as , and the trees , there was no setback in the plants do you see , they were starting growing straight off cos they 'd been , was the same climate . |
| 6 | No , he has n't , that 's why I said slightly coloured , rather than Pakistani |
| 7 | Worrying ahead had never been one of my habits , which was why I had mentally allowed Bill 's importance to get so out of hand . |
| 8 | At times I wondered why I had ever embarked upon my personal research study . |
| 9 | I never understood until I came to Taipei and we met again , when I started to realise why I 'd always reacted so strongly to you . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Probably why I get so screwed up . ’ |
| 12 | That was why I have now decided to write to him . |
| 13 | So , I am going to spend another two minutes telling you why I have always loved trains and railways . |
| 14 | Which is why I have always tried to insist that my players have proper ways of relaxing away from their work . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Anything to explain why my skin is sallow , why I look so washed out . |
| 17 | ‘ Alleluia ! ’ said Francis , and sparkled like a tinsel waterfall , got Jay laughing and wondering recklessly why she 'd ever bothered with the bloody woman . |
| 18 | She knew that he had been Eddie 's best friend — that was why she 'd always found it so hard to accept that he could have deliberately driven her brother off the track . |
| 19 | As she stared down at him while he cleared up the mess , she wondered why she felt so outmanoeuvred . |
| 20 | They were the reasons why she had never wanted children . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | She understood now why she had always felt extra-special and why her mother had been so strict with her and taught her things about life and men and getting babies . |
| 23 | She knew now , consciously at last and with absolute clarity , why she had always reacted so intensely to Luke Scott . |
| 24 | She knew now why she had always disliked him . |
| 25 | She stared at the golden eagle , so arrogantly and eternally poised , and wondered why she had ever thought birds on furniture were a bit off : why had she never bothered to look , why had she never asked herself what her eyes had told her ? |
| 26 | It is difficult to see why she has hitherto accepted the development of a unitary European state , which is as distasteful to Continental as to British voters , for fear of being ‘ left out ’ . |
| 27 | Why you 've just got to laugh |
| 28 | So that 's how you look after your bandages and all these things that we 're going to show you you 'll find in those little sections in your first aid book so if you get confused or why you 've only got to look up in the book . |
| 29 | I 'm simply asking why you 've suddenly started calling her Linda . ’ |
| 30 | So it , it 's as you say it 's a very tough , hard life and in order to survive , people really do need the help of other people and that 's why you 've really got to conform to a large extent in the society and you have n't got a lot of choice about erm you know wh what you 'd like to especially if you 're , if you 're young and female and not much men not if you want to get any wives that is . |