Example sentences of "why he [vb past] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marivate told him how and why he had stood firmly for Moral Re-Armament through his university course . |
| 2 | If so , it could explain why he had waited so long for her , and why , now they had met again , he was handling their relationship so very carefully . |
| 3 | On being asked by her/his commander why he had become so fat , she replied ‘ 'T IS strong beer and tobacco which is the cause of that ’ . |
| 4 | What he could n't understand was , if Tammuz was Ewan , as he suspected , why he had kept away from the girl . |
| 5 | The Government was wrong-footed and the Attorney General , Sir Nicholas Lyell , was forced unprepared to the dispatch box to explain why he had given directly conflicting legal advice to Foreign Office lawyers . |
| 6 | He could offer no reason as to why he had stepped deliberately over the low wooden fence and onto the clean snow beside this one man 's spaced footsteps . |
| 7 | It was why he had come home |
| 8 | That was why he had walked everywhere on his early journeys ; and now it was the main reason why he was so happy to eat the food which men prepared for him either before or after they had sex , to sit at their dining room tables . |
| 9 | Manville remembered now , what it had all been about , why he had needed so desperately to return to this , at least once before he died . |
| 10 | I do n't know why he decided to come here , but they do , now and then , and he paid well . |