Example sentences of "why you [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now by good Saint Loy — and eke by Saint Beth , Why ye lie here , boy , so barren of breath ? |
| 2 | ‘ The sea is why you slept so well . ’ |
| 3 | Now you know why you eat so many of 'em . |
| 4 | Yeah , that 's probably why you nicked off with it , cos it , it was clipped on to my Walk , er the Walkman when I came to your house . |
| 5 | You should n't have doubted the depth of my love for you but I understand why you felt so insecure . |
| 6 | ‘ May I ask why you sold out ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ C-ca n't think why you p-put up with me . ’ |
| 8 | That 's why you end up with nine pints is it ? |
| 9 | why you looking there ? |
| 10 | ‘ Honestly , Dunbar , I do n't see why you put up with her . |
| 11 | Still , I do n't know why you put up with it . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's why you stick together . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Which is why you passed out . |
| 14 | It is also important to look at why you took up the job in the first instance , even if 20 years have elapsed in the meantime . |
| 15 | ‘ Why you took up with him on this unlikely enterprise . ’ |
| 16 | Let me ask you Donna why why you carried on taking it ? |
| 17 | Why you 've just got to laugh |
| 18 | So that 's how you look after your bandages and all these things that we 're going to show you you 'll find in those little sections in your first aid book so if you get confused or why you 've only got to look up in the book . |
| 19 | I 'm simply asking why you 've suddenly started calling her Linda . ’ |
| 20 | So it , it 's as you say it 's a very tough , hard life and in order to survive , people really do need the help of other people and that 's why you 've really got to conform to a large extent in the society and you have n't got a lot of choice about erm you know wh what you 'd like to especially if you 're , if you 're young and female and not much men not if you want to get any wives that is . |
| 21 | 'Is that why you 've never told me before what happened with you and Peter before we all went to New York ? |
| 22 | And do n't they wonder why you 've never married him ? ’ |
| 23 | She does n't understand , you see , why you 've never been home . ’ |
| 24 | Never , but you do n't usually get any from me that 's why you 've never asked . |
| 25 | I did wonder why you had n't called sooner- ’ |
| 26 | Er , well , they had a difficult job , they had a difficult job you see , because they 'd got to keep explaining to you why you had n't got a rifle . |
| 27 | " He wanted to know why you had n't been to class lately . " |
| 28 | Penny , tuppence , three ha'penny returns and every denomination of tickets was recorded so that you so showed the erm number of tickets , erm it was possible for a at the end of the week to record what the takings were , per route and the mileage and so , as I told you before , the mileage played a great importance in that you were able to say how much that route was producing per mile run and the erm , in those days it , the erm the receipts worked out , daily receipts , weekly receipts and the progressive total in that year , were always published by the Ipswich Evening Star , round about Tuesday or Wednesday and if you missed them , there 'd be somebo member of the public ringing up to why , answer why you had n't put it in , it was , you know , looked upon then you were , were public transport and the public team that you belonged to them . |
| 29 | I thought that was why you had n't been round cos I never come |
| 30 | Did it have you any any idea why you had so much support , all all of a sudden ? |