Example sentences of "why they [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was probably another of the reasons why they became so obsessed with loyalty , with the idea that you were part of some élite squad . |
| 2 | No wonder their coach Tony Rodgers could scarcely restrain a grin at the end as a cluster of Northampton committee men tried to work out why they had also travelled with little sense of direction , wit , wisdom or work rate . |
| 3 | In our main 1979 survey , people were asked without prompting to say why they had recently bought on credit rather than paid cash . |
| 4 | All over the country hurt and disillusioned journalists and would-be journalists wondering why they had never received a reply could only presume that they had been rejected . |
| 5 | I was first taken to see these ‘ houses ’ by my father when I was nine ; I have often wondered since then why they had never become a tourist attraction . |
| 6 | And because they were not so well known the audiences were always enchanted and wondered why they had never heard them before . |
| 7 | This was why they had all been calling him ‘ sir ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ You look well , Lili , ’ he remarked , also without warmth , and I wondered why they had ever been friends since they did n't like each other . |
| 9 | The Perks come from the third planet of a G class system in the region of Betelgeuse , where they live in warrens , underground , which is perhaps why they took so readily to the tunnels of Plenty . |
| 10 | Those jobs where we 've done badly because we can learn why they went badly and make sure that they do n't happen again . |
| 11 | The interviewees ' subjective evaluations of the service provided by the Drugs Council are intimately related to the reason why they went there in the first place . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , besides Chuck Berry and the others , but that 's why they got it , that 's why they understood generally , because they were so close to the music that was played by black people — not for radio airplay , but because that 's what was in their hearts . |
| 13 | I do n't know why they 'd ever had a little place yonder but there was crofts near everywhere , |
| 14 | About how Mr Harker was going out of business , which was why they 'd all been pushed harder than ever the last few weeks . |
| 15 | if they 'd keep for Christmas that 's why they charged so much for them , those Mackintosh reds and that , and I mean it told you then in one of those magazines that were , John was reading that he said make sure that you wash those apples before you eat them . |
| 16 | Nobody quite knows who decided all these things were dangerous and evil , or why they did so . |
| 17 | The reason why they did so was that in the case of man neoteny was an evolutionary trend largely in the service of ego and superego development . |