Example sentences of "why [pers pn] [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | I can not say why I suddenly became so curious about him . |
| 4 | That 's why I still cope now with all the everyday things like the ironing and housework . |
| 5 | Charity was not sure why she suddenly felt so … uneasy was not quite the word . |
| 6 | ‘ But why you no say so before , baby ? |
| 7 | I do n't know why you always have so many procedures remain in does it ? |
| 8 | ‘ And that 's why you always look so sad , ’ I thought . |
| 9 | 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 . |