Example sentences of "why [pron] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean about the job , that 's why I got fast you see ? |
| 2 | overpower , you know , creep up on you , I , I 'd , it 'd just get the better of me Eric that 's why I got really the other one you see and that , I , I have n't come to any harm not having it , and erm I 've just got to get rid of this because it 's , I 'd do a lot more Eric if it were n't for the television , I know I 'll miss it when I get rid of it you see , it has been described as a plug-in drug |
| 3 | Why I kept almost forgetting . |
| 4 | Why I spent all Saturday weeding and the next day more had appeared . |
| 5 | That 's why I ran away . |
| 6 | That is why I came today instead . |
| 7 | That is why I came here : to claim kin with him , to be guided by him . |
| 8 | ‘ This is why I came here this afternoon . ’ |
| 9 | Tim told her : ‘ You know why I came here . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ That is why I came here . ’ |
| 11 | That 's why I came here first . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ This was among them , and that 's why I came here . ’ |
| 13 | Yes , that 's why I came here . |
| 14 | But that 's not why I came across — Staff Sergeant MacDonald has found a potential major problem … . ’ |
| 15 | So that 's why I came home , not that I wanted to come you know , to give it up . |
| 16 | ‘ No , certainly not , that 's why I went home , to talk to them both . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ And I expect she told you why I went there ? |
| 18 | And why I went there to buy them , was because it was the same climate as , and the trees , there was no setback in the plants do you see , they were starting growing straight off cos they 'd been , was the same climate . |
| 19 | A little The reason why I went there , my brother was living two or three here . |
| 20 | and that 's , that 's , that 's why I went totally off beam Steve . |
| 21 | Well this is , this is why I thought perhaps erm I did n't want to ask Jim too much or he would know I was buying them for him you see . |
| 22 | Was it because I was out of reach of the prying eyes of the men in my family and their questions about my comings and goings , and far from my mother 's interrogations about why I slept on my stomach , or why I took so long in the bathroom ? |
| 23 | ‘ That is why I asked earlier if you were interested in the death of King Alexander . |
| 24 | And that was why I drove eastwards along Lake Geneva . |
| 25 | ‘ We were really expecting to win which is why I scored so well . ’ |
| 26 | Talk about I reckon that , er Evelyn 's niece said er I said that 's how they used to dress boys , I said ho she said why I said probably |
| 27 | No , he has n't , that 's why I said slightly coloured , rather than Pakistani |
| 28 | Well that 's why , that 's why I said well we would |
| 29 | That 's why I said ter scarper . ’ |
| 30 | Good luck to them , I 'm not convinced in my own mind and I mean we 've interviewed these people that there are people internally ready yet , that 's why I said perhaps we should |