Example sentences of "why he [vb -s] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the hon. Member for Copeland is complaining about the level of tax now , the country wants to know why he proposes to add considerably to it . |
| 2 | That 's why he wants to stay here . |
| 3 | If the Secretary of State regards protecting the British coal industry and , therefore , the nation from the fluctuation in world prices as rigging the market , will he explain why he has done exactly that by rigging the market for nuclear electricity in this country ? |
| 4 | Becker , who expects to encounter the 25-year-old Swede in the Davis Cup final here in December , can not understand why he has drifted so long . |
| 5 | He collapsed at Debbie 's on Wednesday night , well he fell , bumped his head sort of fall down so the doctor come yesterday , tt , and he had to stop in bed two or three days and go at the doctor 's for ten minute appointment and he bloody test and to see why he 's lost so much weight cos his legs are like that . |
| 6 | That might be why he 's gone away . |
| 7 | I 'd like to know exactly why he 's gone so completely off his head . |
| 8 | I do , I mean I do that when I erm , y , you 're so excited about getting a gain on the appointment and you think , why he 's got about five in there , and then you think there 's a big space between them , but you think , no I 'm not going onto next week because you might not be interested then , but you do , you end up putting it down so they , so it 's still in their mind and that 's the , the way I work and it 's probably wrong , it 's probably wrong , I mean I do n't |
| 9 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |