Example sentences of "why [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You noticed a vaguely pained expression enter Jackson 's eyes , as if he was wondering why nothing ever proved simple . |
| 2 | When we first saw Mark Cottrell 's fabric wraps around his handles/lines we wondered why no-one else had ever thought of the same idea . |
| 3 | You know being round here you might be tempted to do it but that 's why I just keep in me flat and out of the way . |
| 4 | That 's why I just keep my old ones up there that we use every da , er , you know |
| 5 | no I ju , I du n no why I just think she 'll have a lad |
| 6 | say why I just have n't got any . |
| 7 | I do n't regret it , of course — I might never have been a priest otherwise — but I often think that that 's why I just do n't seem able to come to grips with the modern world . ’ |
| 8 | That is why I willingly sent him anything I thought might be of sufficient merit to justify him , as a publisher , pronouncing upon it . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's why I immediately gave his name to the police . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm doing all these books , writing things and life is too short , time is passing too quickly , so that 's why I like my houses so much , and why I rarely go to other people 's houses . |
| 11 | That is why I particularly welcome the enthusiastic way in which they have embraced the patients charter and the accompanying document on internal management in the health service , ’ Framework for Action ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I do not know why I even trust you , but I have no men trained to use their hearts in the way you are able to as a gift of Ptah . |
| 13 | He was spotty , too — oh dear , that was n't his fault , I do n't know why I even mentioned it . ’ |
| 14 | yeah but I mean , I it , I when I 'm fucking pissed , I ca n't sober , that 's why I probably think they 're , they 're not pulling a plonker cos I 've done that sort of thing in the past had me fucking climbing on bikes , swinging off the side of the building . |
| 15 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 16 | I fully understood what she was saying to you the day you visited Kinghorn , which is why I almost burst out laughing . ’ |
| 17 | That is why I personally put the plan into operation , aided by Colonel Radl of the Abwehr , who 's had a heart attack , I understand , and is not expected to live . ’ |
| 18 | But it 's a , it 's a problem that , that you 've put your finger on , and this is why I personally think that a lot of this literature is of such a poor quality . |
| 19 | Which is why I personally ordered that the thing should be tracked twenty-four hours a day . |
| 20 | that 's what I said to mum , you know , that 's why I so wanted to pass me , me test , cos I said to mum erm , see I kept it , I only had six hundred quid redundancy , six hundred and twenty eight pounds , that 's all I had , apart , I had me wages what was owed and me holiday pay , but my , me actual redundancy cheque was only six hundred and twenty eight quid |
| 21 | What I was really doing , up there in my private darkness , while below he played my mother 's old jazz records and new ones he 'd bought , why I really went so early was to have longer imagining him into his father . |
| 22 | ‘ You know why I really came here , ’ he said , and the words might well have been memorised because he stared up at her in rather an abstracted manner as if his mind were on something else . |
| 23 | that 's why I really wanted to try all these other avenues cos I 'd watched them all and , and each one , no disrespect to any of them , but |
| 24 | That 's why I really appreciate the frilly frock and big boots image of Hole , babes , etc — it symbolises a finger up the nose of the feminine stereotype — two opposing images together — frocks and boots and loud , trashy , aggressive music . |
| 25 | I rang Michael and said I 'd like to go over and persuade him , and drove to his cottage and talked at length about how I saw it and why I really wanted his sort of ability and personality . |
| 26 | I 'm sure that 's why I never win anything , I 've got such an intent to win when I ever I enter a competition , like I du n no . |
| 27 | I do n't know why I never drove at home . |
| 28 | It 's why I never gamble . ’ |
| 29 | I think , actually , that she was always a snake during the daylight hours , which is why I never saw her except at night . |
| 30 | He prodded once more his attaché case — which I felt inclined to keep my eyes averted from — and said : ‘ I suppose you 've been wondering why I never let go of this case . |