Example sentences of "why he have [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 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | That might be why he 's gone away . |
| 14 | I 'd like to know exactly why he 's gone so completely off his head . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |