Example sentences of "that [be] why [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , that s why I said it was a bit worrying before . |
| 2 | That is why they attacked me with a bomb . |
| 3 | ‘ He put his arms up to protect his face and that is why they took it all . |
| 4 | That is why we chose them as one of our opponents in the build-up to the World Cup , ’ Vogts said . |
| 5 | ‘ That is why we felt it was important to talk to each Scottish Homes tenant face-to-face in their own home to explain our promise to them . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ That is why I asked you to meet me . |
| 7 | That is why I kissed you . |
| 8 | ‘ That is why I kissed you , señorita . ’ |
| 9 | That is why I said I would ‘ seek to agree ’ with the Chancellor : there is little by way of logical leverage that I could bring to bear upon them . |
| 10 | That is why I took him for an agent . |
| 11 | That is why I took it . |
| 12 | That is why I killed him . |
| 13 | Maybe that is why I invited you here after all . |
| 14 | That is why I described what happened earlier as a stupid procedural diversion . |
| 15 | That is why I created my own festival in Salzburg each Easter . |
| 16 | Your lips are not cherries but strawberries , and that is why I crushed them . |
| 17 | That is why I lost my shirt to John Olver for the Canada match . |
| 18 | ‘ That is why you accepted him . ’ |
| 19 | That is why he appointed him Lord High Protector — he knew and trusted him implicitly . |
| 20 | He conceded that his knowledge of the language was slight ; that is why he referred me to his young assistant . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ That is why she wanted them to remain here . ’ |
| 22 | That 's why we got one I think . |
| 23 | that 's why we made her the supervisor |
| 24 | You know , that 's why we thought we 'd come back cos we thought we had n't talked much . |
| 25 | ‘ The quote was a few hundred under the other offers we had , that 's why we accepted it . |
| 26 | That 's why we knew it would be good to bring it to a close . ’ |
| 27 | That 's why we did it . |
| 28 | I mean that 's why we lost our moto er motorcycle industry |
| 29 | That 's why we bought him . |
| 30 | That 's why we won it on the line . ’ |