Example sentences of "why [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | That is one reason why I 've just started to learn the piano . |
2 | That 's why I 've never married . |
3 | ‘ I naturally believe that the financial profits of the drug-suppliers are offensive , ’ Ellen said , ‘ which is why I 've only used cocaine on a handful of occasions . |
4 | I mean about the job , that 's why I got fast you see ? |
5 | 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 |
6 | But why I mean so stupid . |
7 | That 's why I charge so much . |
8 | why I come straight across . |
9 | ‘ You can see why I remember so little . ’ |
10 | That 's why I object strongly to the Office 's plugging me in as an Automatic Nurse for one night ! ’ |
11 | Why I kept almost forgetting . |
12 | And why I sit here , husbandless , dependent upon social security supplemented by such pitiful amounts of money as I can wring out of the national press , and Bernard genuflects once more , fled back to his baptismal church , terrified by the very notion of living outside it . |
13 | Why I spent all Saturday weeding and the next day more had appeared . |
14 | That 's why I ran away . |
15 | That is why I came today instead . |
16 | That is why I came here : to claim kin with him , to be guided by him . |
17 | ‘ This is why I came here this afternoon . ’ |
18 | Tim told her : ‘ You know why I came here . ’ |
19 | ‘ That is why I came here . ’ |
20 | That 's why I came here first . ’ |
21 | ‘ This was among them , and that 's why I came here . ’ |
22 | Yes , that 's why I came here . |
23 | But that 's not why I came across — Staff Sergeant MacDonald has found a potential major problem … . ’ |
24 | So that 's why I came home , not that I wanted to come you know , to give it up . |
25 | ‘ No , certainly not , that 's why I went home , to talk to them both . ’ |
26 | ‘ And I expect she told you why I went there ? |
27 | 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 . |
28 | A little The reason why I went there , my brother was living two or three here . |
29 | and that 's , that 's , that 's why I went totally off beam Steve . |
30 | 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 . |