Example sentences of "why [pers pn] never [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know why I never drove at home . |
| 2 | I think , actually , that she was always a snake during the daylight hours , which is why I never saw her except at night . |
| 3 | I will never understand why I went to Cookham on my first sentence — I got a YP [ young prisoner 's sentence ] and do n't know why I never went to borstal — they still had them then . |
| 4 | The acid test was when I told him why I never had any money to spend , but he was very understanding . |
| 5 | He asked why I never took a case in Benedict 's Private Wing . |
| 6 | Do you know why I never took any of those women home , Jessamy ? |
| 7 | Come to think of it , even when the taxman wrote to me , he spelled it c-u-r ; which is why I never wrote back . |
| 8 | That 's why I never heard were n't it ? |
| 9 | she just lost her husband and that was why I never said |
| 10 | She had always understood that Janine 's mother was never off the doorstep , that 's why she never came herself . |
| 11 | The launch of the Agatha Christie Society will put an end to one of her biggest mysteries — why she never had a fan club . |
| 12 | I tucked into bacon and eggs and fried bread and pondered on the great philosophical issues of life such as why you never got fried black pudding for breakfast any more . |
| 13 | I do n't know why you never learned yourself to write your precious words . |
| 14 | ‘ I could n't understand why you never showed yourself when you were interrogating me . |
| 15 | Probably , subconsciously or , I dare say , consciously , you knew how you would react if you had a baby and that is why you never wanted one . |
| 16 | Do n't know why we never realised it before but Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive officer , Scott McNealy is the company 's largest single shareholder with about 2.1m shares or 2.2% of the outstanding stock , making him worth about $60m . |
| 17 | Do n't know why we never realized it before but Sun chief executive officer , Scott McNealy is the firm 's largest single shareholder with about 2.1m shares or 2.2% of the outstanding stock . |
| 18 | I also wondered about why we never saw Nellie 's Dad and eventually I asked her about him . |
| 19 | Before that contract for the helicopter support ship was awarded , I think we all knew well that whoever did n't get it was in trouble , and that of course is why we never took sides . |
| 20 | Often the outcome is so rewarding , managers wonder why they never thought of doing it before . |
| 21 | ‘ I think one reason why they never married was that Uncle Phil would n't have asked her . |
| 22 | Shall I tell you why they never did ? ’ |
| 23 | So that was why they never appeared on TWW . |
| 24 | Why it never arrived , or trail his foot |
| 25 | It is of course possible that he was wrong in his initial assumption — which would explain why he never expanded his ‘ proof ’ in his notes — but we have to remember that the man was a mathematical genius . |
| 26 | She wanted to know why he never brought anything home , why he had no reading book . |
| 27 | He both wore and drank night-caps : the one made of flannel by one of the Macleod ladies , the other a little unaccustomed brandy , which occasioned him to reveal to his hostess why he never drank . |
| 28 | That is why he never took up any of the opportunities to teach that he had in his later life . ’ |
| 29 | Why he never troubled to publish his knowledge , I do not know , except that he was an aristocrat , and so perhaps considered it beneath him to publish . |
| 30 | One man , trying to find his own tears , turned to looking at why he never cried for his father . |