Example sentences of "why [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why I kept almost forgetting . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | No , he has n't , that 's why I said slightly coloured , rather than Pakistani |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At times I wondered why I had ever embarked upon my personal research study . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Alleluia ! ’ said Francis , and sparkled like a tinsel waterfall , got Jay laughing and wondering recklessly why she 'd ever bothered with the bloody woman . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As she stared down at him while he cleared up the mess , she wondered why she felt so outmanoeuvred . |
| 11 | They were the reasons why she had never wanted children . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She knew now , consciously at last and with absolute clarity , why she had always reacted so intensely to Luke Scott . |
| 15 | She knew now why she had always disliked him . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps it did , because I was wondering why you 'd never vouchsafed that interesting titbit of information before , ’ he mused . |
| 18 | That 's why we 'd better move on without any delay . ’ |
| 19 | No wonder their coach Tony Rodgers could scarcely restrain a grin at the end as a cluster of Northampton committee men tried to work out why they had also travelled with little sense of direction , wit , wisdom or work rate . |
| 20 | In our main 1979 survey , people were asked without prompting to say why they had recently bought on credit rather than paid cash . |
| 21 | All over the country hurt and disillusioned journalists and would-be journalists wondering why they had never received a reply could only presume that they had been rejected . |
| 22 | I was first taken to see these ‘ houses ’ by my father when I was nine ; I have often wondered since then why they had never become a tourist attraction . |
| 23 | And because they were not so well known the audiences were always enchanted and wondered why they had never heard them before . |
| 24 | I do n't know why they 'd ever had a little place yonder but there was crofts near everywhere , |
| 25 | That was why it had all happened . |
| 26 | Although the Critique had been intended to rescue Marxism from the sclerosis of Stalinism , Sartre found that his theory of history , far from explaining what had gone wrong when the most radical political theory turned out in practice to be one of the most oppressive , had rather shown why it had necessarily happened that way . |
| 27 | Why he seemed so determined to treat her as a friend when all her instincts told her that he was in love with her . |
| 28 | She knew why he sounded so strangled when she saw herself . |
| 29 | He was asked why he 'd later dumped lengths of pipe at nearby Slade Quarry and then twice lied to police about it . |
| 30 | Brucie should have asked his old mucker why he had apparently given up his comedy career to become a fulltime golfer , but he seemed more interested in sticking to what appeared to be a well-prepared script . |