Example sentences of "why she [verb] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't realise why she 'd been away , but when she returned I soon found out . |
| 2 | But from those earliest days , she had n't believed in the Church at all ; not one scrap , not one iota , and this was why she 'd been so surprised to discover herself in such a place only the previous morning . |
| 3 | She was n't even sure why she 'd been so reluctant to come into contact with him . |
| 4 | Maybe that was why she 'd been so uncharacteristically antagonistic to him all along , she realised now . |
| 5 | All of which made it impossible to explain exactly why she 'd been so upset to find , after arriving , tired and exhausted , at the large house in Lowndes Square , that she was going to see even less of Ross than she had in New York ? |
| 6 | And the reason why she had been so slow to recognise him was that on the ship he had looked so much older . |
| 7 | Of course she knew why she had been so anxious to come ; there must be some , perhaps many , people here who could tell her about S. Kettering . |
| 8 | Lydia was wondering why Elizabeth had n't asked April to her dinner party , and also why she had been so silent on the previous evening and had left so early . |
| 9 | Her thoughts annoyingly flitted back to Ven again , and she realised now , of course , just why she had been so outraged when Lubor had tried to kiss her last Friday . |
| 10 | That 's one of the main reasons why she 's been so frightened . |