Example sentences of "[is] why i [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That is why I asked you to meet me . |
| 2 | Which is why I wanted you to take over the investigation from young Ebert . |
| 3 | That is why I want you to listen carefully to the dreaded DOs and DON'Ts I am about to give you . |
| 4 | He 's alive and well and at present in the Tower of London which is why I want you to go to England for me . |
| 5 | She is — was — outstandingly able , that 's why I asked her to join us . ’ |
| 6 | That 's why I asked you to join us as soon as was possible . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's why I want him to know he can talk to us . |
| 8 | That 's why I want you to lie low for a couple of days , while I look into it . ’ |
| 9 | That 's why I want you to take the twins to sea . |
| 10 | It was bothering me , that 's why I wanted her to go up with us |
| 11 | It 's why I wanted you to come this afternoon . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's why I wanted us to get moving . |