Example sentences of "why he [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God knows why he woke up that night . |
| 2 | That was why he relied chiefly on Simenon , an author for whom he preserved a high opinion all his life . |
| 3 | Exactly why he chose not to proceed will be a matter for debate in financial and footballing circles for some time . |
| 4 | Wickham wanted to know whether Hunter-Blair had explained why he chose not to deliver the copy himself . |
| 5 | Why he chose not to act until the following March is unclear . |
| 6 | With this particular letter I can not say why he chose not to , but he receives so many letters that he can not physically respond to all of them . ’ |
| 7 | With this particular letter I can not say why he chose not to , but he receives so many letters that he can not physically respond to all of them . ’ |
| 8 | And another reason why he grew more and more weighty was his refusal to accept Guff . |
| 9 | Why he seemed so determined to treat her as a friend when all her instincts told her that he was in love with her . |
| 10 | ‘ Apparently you ca n't miss , but only Brian Harley has got one so far , and this is mainly why he cleaned up on the Safari circuit . |
| 11 | Then there was the element of fascination — I know practically nothing about him , nor what his business activities are or why he spends so much time in foreign countries . |
| 12 | ‘ I never did understand , an old man like that and a five-star general to boot , why he went around dressed up like a nineteen-year-old Second Lieutenant , ’ said Truman , reminiscing years afterwards to Merle Miller . |
| 13 | Well that 's why he went probably ! |
| 14 | ‘ I know why he went there . ’ |
| 15 | As the corporate lawyer put it , when asked why he went along with producing completely bogus insurance policies as part of the Equity Funding Scandal : ‘ I did n't think anything of it ; it was something the company needed done , that 's all ’ ( Blundell 1978:171 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ That could be why he went home that day feeling groggy . |
| 17 | Instead she and Jennifer absent-mindedly watched aircraft taking off and landing on the company runway , then another thought suddenly struck her and she said , ‘ Do you know why he came back from Australia ? ’ |
| 18 | Then if Mr Major takes a cool look at why Mrs Thatcher was overthrown , why he became Prime Minister in 1990 , and why he came so near to defeat in 1992 , he will see a cycle of excessive boom , high inflation and then prolonged recession . |
| 19 | The driver then has the ticklish problem of explaining to the missus why he came home by bus . |
| 20 | Mr Clarke said that he commented to his wife : ‘ That must be the reason why he came across . |
| 21 | ‘ We ca n't find out why he drove around his own land when he could have walked . |
| 22 | That is why he manoeuvred frantically , and brilliantly , to fend off the challenge to his party leadership last month . |
| 23 | That is why he spent as much time as he possibly could outside the ring , talking about anything but the council tax . |
| 24 | When we compare such a view with that of Althusser , we can see why he feels so strongly that the scope of Marx 's theory has not been recognised . |
| 25 | She knew why he sounded so strangled when she saw herself . |
| 26 | I suddenly realized why he smoked so much and felt queasy all over again . |
| 27 | He is a teacher , I thought : that is why he talks so well . |
| 28 | I think Eddie was frightened , and that 's why he gambled so heavily at the end . ’ |
| 29 | Why he looking there for ? |
| 30 | That was when she understood why he looked so strange . |