Example sentences of "why she [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ McAl — Sally-Anne , ’ said Rose , reading her ma 's stare correctly , ‘ is a Yankee ; that 's why she talks so funny . |
| 2 | no , if Maureen 's the same at , at home as she is at work then you can see why she left home |
| 3 | She was never afterwards quite sure why she sidestepped only partially and temporarily on this occasion . |
| 4 | ‘ Alleluia ! ’ said Francis , and sparkled like a tinsel waterfall , got Jay laughing and wondering recklessly why she 'd ever bothered with the bloody woman . |
| 5 | She knew that he had been Eddie 's best friend — that was why she 'd always found it so hard to accept that he could have deliberately driven her brother off the track . |
| 6 | One day he asked her why she looked so sad . |
| 7 | He stared at his old neighbour trying to puzzle out why she looked so different . |
| 8 | There was only one person she wanted to see and that was why she stared so searchingly into the young pretty face of the policewoman . |
| 9 | She needed a favour from me , which is why she came tonight . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Which is why she came home . |
| 11 | He was unable to imagine what she was after , why she had chosen this way out , why she seemed so bloody cheerful . |
| 12 | Tepilit would question her about her interest in Masai women and why she seemed so concerned with their unremarkable tasks . |
| 13 | ‘ Isabel miscarried , which was why she became so mad for Benedict 's coming here . ’ |
| 14 | Clare wondered why she felt so hurt , when she 'd always known the truth . |
| 15 | Donna looked at him again , wondering why she felt so guilty to be sitting at the table with this man . |
| 16 | As she stared down at him while he cleared up the mess , she wondered why she felt so outmanoeuvred . |
| 17 | She did n't know why she felt so scared . |
| 18 | What she could n't understand was why she felt so bad about it . |
| 19 | Juliet could n't understand why she felt so nervous . |
| 20 | That 's why she ran away . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ At least I now know why she ran away . ’ |
| 22 | That is why she elicits so much sympathy . |
| 23 | That is why she spends so much time in her room . |
| 24 | His daughter 's latest love — and why she had so precipitately left him , he was about to find out . |
| 25 | They were the reasons why she had never wanted children . |
| 26 | Asked why she had never fled when she first felt in danger from her husband she replied : ‘ I was too frightened to get any help , I felt like a prisoner with nowhere to go . ’ |
| 27 | She understood now why she had always felt extra-special and why her mother had been so strict with her and taught her things about life and men and getting babies . |
| 28 | She knew now , consciously at last and with absolute clarity , why she had always reacted so intensely to Luke Scott . |
| 29 | She knew now why she had always disliked him . |
| 30 | She stared at the golden eagle , so arrogantly and eternally poised , and wondered why she had ever thought birds on furniture were a bit off : why had she never bothered to look , why had she never asked herself what her eyes had told her ? |