Example sentences of "why [pers pn] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why I had too much . |
| 2 | Worrying ahead had never been one of my habits , which was why I had mentally allowed Bill 's importance to get so out of hand . |
| 3 | At times I wondered why I had ever embarked upon my personal research study . |
| 4 | That 's why I had so many . |
| 5 | His daughter 's latest love — and why she had so precipitately left him , he was about to find out . |
| 6 | They were the reasons why she had never wanted children . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She knew now , consciously at last and with absolute clarity , why she had always reacted so intensely to Luke Scott . |
| 10 | She knew now why she had always disliked him . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Did it have you any any idea why you had so much support , all all of a sudden ? |
| 13 | Just er er why we had only three , right ? |
| 14 | My hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield wondered why we had so many people in prison and in police cells . |
| 15 | No wonder their coach Tony Rodgers could scarcely restrain a grin at the end as a cluster of Northampton committee men tried to work out why they had also travelled with little sense of direction , wit , wisdom or work rate . |
| 16 | In our main 1979 survey , people were asked without prompting to say why they had recently bought on credit rather than paid cash . |
| 17 | All over the country hurt and disillusioned journalists and would-be journalists wondering why they had never received a reply could only presume that they had been rejected . |
| 18 | I was first taken to see these ‘ houses ’ by my father when I was nine ; I have often wondered since then why they had never become a tourist attraction . |
| 19 | And because they were not so well known the audiences were always enchanted and wondered why they had never heard them before . |
| 20 | This was why they had all been calling him ‘ sir ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ You look well , Lili , ’ he remarked , also without warmth , and I wondered why they had ever been friends since they did n't like each other . |
| 22 | That was why it had all happened . |
| 23 | For a moment , for the first time in his life , he began to realize why his grandfather had never lost his love of Mother Russia , why it had always been in his blood . |
| 24 | Once , therefore , a national curriculum for England and Wales appeared on the agenda , the general reaction was to wonder why it had never been seriously considered before . |
| 25 | Oh that 's why it had so much impact , because it really was different on that . |
| 26 | Although the Critique had been intended to rescue Marxism from the sclerosis of Stalinism , Sartre found that his theory of history , far from explaining what had gone wrong when the most radical political theory turned out in practice to be one of the most oppressive , had rather shown why it had necessarily happened that way . |
| 27 | Did Boy ever ask himself why he did n't dream about men , when he got home from The Bar — why he had instead these strange dreams of shoots , bulbs and roots ; roots kept in the dark , waiting to flower , needing a gardener 's attention ? |
| 28 | Brucie should have asked his old mucker why he had apparently given up his comedy career to become a fulltime golfer , but he seemed more interested in sticking to what appeared to be a well-prepared script . |
| 29 | Brucie should have asked his old mucker why he had apparently given up his comedy career to become a full-time golfer , but he seemed more interested in sticking to what appeared to be a well-prepared script . |
| 30 | Brucie should have asked his old mucker why he had apparently given up his comedy career to become a full-time golfer , but he seemed more interested in sticking to what appeared to be a well-prepared script . |