Example sentences of "why [noun] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could see why Ian did too . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm beginning to understand why Garry went overboard for you , ’ he said huskily . |
| 3 | In fact she had wondered before why Johnny had always worn civvies , as he termed them , on his visits to the cottage . |
| 4 | Perhaps that is why Heather felt more at ease with the likes of you and I than with her family and the friends they chose for her . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ That 's why Simon had so many men with him . |
| 6 | Christopher Petrie and Jane lived for a year as neighbours : he in the manor and she in the stables-converted cottage , which she made much cosier and more inviting than the manor — one reason perhaps why Christopher spent so much time there . |
| 7 | That was the most personally evocative thing of all , Sabine thought , wincing , and she could understand why Hugh had always shied away from clearing out his wife 's things . |
| 8 | ‘ It would , of course , ’ Theda agreed , able even in the pain he had caused her to understand now why Benedict had never trusted his godmother . |
| 9 | There 's some great games there , but why Tetris scored so highly I 'll never know . |
| 10 | Kosi shivered , seemingly unable to understand why Ace giggled softly . |
| 11 | ‘ Going out by the gun-room window , ’ said Thomas , ‘ which master announced to all of them was faulty , and that was why Rover slept there . ’ |
| 12 | Probably not in this essay as such , but in that area of Pound 's conversation of which this essay is a distillation , we find the reason — so I believe — why Yeats said admiringly of Landor in 1917 : ‘ He had in his Imaginary Conver - sations reminded us , as it were , that the Venus de Milo is a stone . ’ |
| 13 | It is hard to explain why confidence broke precisely when it did . |
| 14 | It explains why Stamford had so many churches , rather than the more common single church , as at Grantham and Newark . |
| 15 | But , I mean that 's why Victor came away was n't it ? |
| 16 | Presumably that is why Philip chose precisely that moment to raise again the spectre which was to haunt the Old King 's last years . |
| 17 | He says the tests did n't show up originally and that 's why things progressed so far . |
| 18 | She wondered why Seb had never fallen for her . |
| 19 | What would have happened if penicillin had not been discovered , or if years of patient research had failed to explain why sulphonamides acted only on a limited selection of microbes ? |
| 20 | Inside the ark were the tablets of the law — the supreme verbal statement of God 's holiness ( 26:16 ) ; at one and the same time the reason why God dwelt alone ( for none can match his holiness ) , and why by means of blood a sinner might enter his presence ( for the blood speaks of life laid down in payment for sin ) . |
| 21 | I understood how and why Jean-Claude had so enthusiastically taken on this work . |
| 22 | This may be one reason why fertility recovered somewhat after its initial wartime decline , to reach a peak in 1944 ( 781,478 births ) , unmatched since 1923 , only to fall again in late 1944 and 1945 as mass armies were once again able to operate overseas ( see Registrar-General 1954 ) . |
| 23 | Many more middle-class than working-class girls fell into this group , which was thought to explain why PMP seemed less important for them . |
| 24 | ‘ Poor Copenhagen do n't know where they are going yet and I think that is why UEFA brought forward their meeting . |
| 25 | And why Jimmy looked so pleased when told that the General Election deposit was £500 , and not £1,000 as he 'd supposed . |
| 26 | The clash between Balcon 's nationalism and the Ostrers ' requirement that he pursue international popularity led to the signs of strain that are evident in much of the Gaumont-British output , and it is easy to understand why Balcon became so disillusioned with the idea of international production . |
| 27 | He could never understand why June became so irritated by his ‘ never reading the directions ’ . |