Example sentences of "why i [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the reasons why I pressed the Minister to give an assurance about the link between Stratford and King 's Cross is that it is feared that money will not be available to build the link . |
| 2 | ‘ But you see , that 's why I chose the play . |
| 3 | That 's why I brought the sheet . |
| 4 | you are the reason why I left the school , you know , none of the girls are happy by their upper sixth , in the lower sixth you might think it 's alright but by the time |
| 5 | ‘ I remember now why I left the Army ’ George muttered through clenched teeth . |
| 6 | ‘ When my friends asked me why I left the ministry , I told them the focus was too narrow . |
| 7 | ‘ You remember why I left the Met , Mr Dalgliesh . ’ |
| 8 | Well it , it , it , it 's moving a bit in that direction , I mean I knew what their prediction was cos they kindly supplied it to me , which is why I made the point , but I mean as as you know from our proof we have a higher view of the demographic requirements in York even than that , for reasons that were amply discussed in general on on day one , to do with vacant dwellings , mortality , and I think still probably a difference in migration between us on York , which is statistical rather than environmental , but I think it is important to have that established early on that that even in the County Council 's view , and with their , as it were , doubts about the statistics which they themselves use , that er there is more need generated in York , however much it is , than York itself can accommodate , and that is of course without York city 's seven hundred addition for reducing concealed and sharing households which is not in the County Council 's figures . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose that 's one reason why I thought the letter might be from Canon Wheeler . ’ |
| 10 | ( Sorel , beginning as a revolutionary syndicalist , gravitated towards the Action Francaise movement , which was the reason why I thought the book might interest Eliot . ) |
| 11 | That 's why I asked the doctor here to come along . |
| 12 | And I believed they were capable of murdering my mother , I honestly believe they would have murdered my mother — that 's why I signed the statement . ’ |
| 13 | The Government 's response has been inadequate and that is why I initiated the debate . |
| 14 | I 'm going round in circles here , I know , that 's why I bought the refill for , that 's what I 'm saying I do n't know what the other one is , |
| 15 | yeah I will do that 's why I bought the mince meat , I 'm going to do lasagne |
| 16 | ‘ The view and the north light , that 's why I bought the house . |
| 17 | That 's not like Dot , I felt if she 'd been called away she 'd have got word to me somehow so … so that 's why I rang the Firm . |
| 18 | That is why I stole the book and that is why they want me dead and why they need the book back . |
| 19 | And my plea would be that we do everything we possibly can and that 's why I found the quotation from scripture in this section so apposite , that we do everything we possibly can in grace and love and truth to help people to enter into a commitment to the ministry of the whole people of God . |
| 20 | Then he asked why I wanted the money ! |
| 21 | ‘ We never talked it out properly ; why I wanted the baby , because it was I , not us , that wanted it , true ? |
| 22 | But that was why as I understood it , that was why I wanted the sealer . |