Example sentences of "why we [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ca n't think why we ever got rid of the old bat . |
| 2 | Maybe next year , we 'll wonder why we ever liked it , but today it 's one of the queerest and most exciting things in pop . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I also wondered about why we never saw Nellie 's Dad and eventually I asked her about him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This is why we recently proposed the development of ‘ Newton Institutes ’ based on the model used in other countries to build on the strengths of basic research to encourage innovation in industry . |
| 8 | This is why we now put ‘ Cichlasoma ’ in inverted commas — we have to call these fish something , and the parentheses indicate that the name we are using is not a correct scientific one . |