Example sentences of "why [noun prp] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is why Patrick has never set much store by material things . |
| 2 | She could see why Ian did too . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm beginning to understand why Garry went overboard for you , ’ he said huskily . |
| 4 | That 's why Haliborange have just brought out a new Multivitamin Liquid containing essential vitamins A to E in the proportions that a growing child needs . |
| 5 | In fact she had wondered before why Johnny had always worn civvies , as he termed them , on his visits to the cottage . |
| 6 | Then he tells me about the clothes allowance , and then I know why Sue looks so dishy three times a week , and then I start to salivate because you get to keep them ! |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ That 's why Simon had so many men with him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | There 's some great games there , but why Tetris scored so highly I 'll never know . |
| 13 | Kosi shivered , seemingly unable to understand why Ace giggled softly . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | It explains why Stamford had so many churches , rather than the more common single church , as at Grantham and Newark . |
| 17 | The reasons why Dagenham performs so poorly are complex and partly historical . |
| 18 | But , I mean that 's why Victor came away was n't it ? |
| 19 | Presumably that is why Philip chose precisely that moment to raise again the spectre which was to haunt the Old King 's last years . |
| 20 | She wondered why Seb had never fallen for her . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | Disposal of waste is big business , and one of the reasons why Britain receives so much is our maintenance of low prices of disposal . |
| 23 | This is why Peter gets so steamed up with the sales people from the software houses . |
| 24 | I understood how and why Jean-Claude had so enthusiastically taken on this work . |
| 25 | Eastwards , Cliff Lane goes past the old school , the post office and a row of cottages to the cliff top , where it is demonstrated why Mappleton has recently achieved tremendous publicity as it is the next English village in danger of being swept into the North Sea . |
| 26 | That must be why Glasgow has so many museums . |
| 27 | Many more middle-class than working-class girls fell into this group , which was thought to explain why PMP seemed less important for them . |
| 28 | Keith can not figure out why Potter looks so funny . |
| 29 | If we ask why Gandhi lays so much stress on the relation between Truth and ahi s , we have to look again at his view of the Self . |
| 30 | This is Walter Savage Landor ; and this short article explains why Landor figures repeatedly , and always with respect , not just in The Cantos and in Pound 's later criticism , but in Yeats 's poetry and prose also . |