Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] why he " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could guess why he might have had trouble with the sort of people Barbara described : she said she had watched what happened but the men had not spotted her . |
| 2 | ‘ Yeah , but you can imagine the problems that Gus would have at that time , and I could see why he would react like that . |
| 3 | I could see why he was angry : the windscreen of the Shogun was well-smeared with yellow paint and he 'd obviously reacted by turning on the windscreen-wipers , the worst thing he could have done . |
| 4 | Well yes he might , yes , I could see why he would know , yeah . |
| 5 | You know , " he hissed , " I used to wonder why my father left you to go out and fight against the British , I used to wonder why he sacrificed everything … but the more I learn about you , the more I realize why ! " |
| 6 | I think I can understand why he chose the 18th century . |
| 7 | I can understand why he has been invited to coach . |
| 8 | I can understand why he did it , to be quite honest . |
| 9 | Erm , if it is the one this morning , I can understand why he has n't done one today |
| 10 | Well to be honest I can understand why he 's not asking them . |
| 11 | I can see why he asked me to sit down ! |
| 12 | Given Duchamp 's long residence in America , and his contacts with and influence on American art , I can see why he might be included , although most of the time he was a presence on the scene here he was n't working publicly . |
| 13 | I can see why he 's not scored so often this year and why we 're now being linked with Ferdinand . |
| 14 | ‘ I can see why he 's eating out of your hand at present , ’ he said cuttingly . |
| 15 | I can see why he had that heart attack . |
| 16 | As a result he is very fat and suffers from constant agony due to chronic indigestion , which may explain why he is so fierce . |
| 17 | ‘ My people are upstairs talking to Beryl and going through Francis 's room , looking for anything which might explain why he was murdered . |
| 18 | It is of course possible that he was wrong in his initial assumption — which would explain why he never expanded his ‘ proof ’ in his notes — but we have to remember that the man was a mathematical genius . |
| 19 | Presumably he had used his wiles on the pretty blonde receptionist on duty to elicit this information , which would explain why he was here on the fifth-floor landing harassing her . |
| 20 | She could see why he would want it . |
| 21 | Add to this his new duties at the Berlin Staatsoper and you can see why he is , without question , one of the most powerful musical figures today . |
| 22 | You can see why he did n't want to acknowledge a family connection with someone who was convicted of murder . |
| 23 | ‘ You can see why he has that odd name — that peculiar nose with its heart-shaped blob of white fur on the very end . ’ |
| 24 | Given the radical nature of his views , one must ask why he remains a priest . |
| 25 | No one could understand why he volunteered for the Commandos . |
| 26 | No one will explain why he should have had a turtle-shell to lie in instead of some more orthodox cradle , but during the anti-monarchical excesses of the French Revolution this venerable carapace is said to have been saved from destruction by a naturalist of Pau , who was able to switch it for one without any such incriminatory associations from his own collection . |
| 27 | We can understand why he took a walk each evening . |
| 28 | When we compare such a view with that of Althusser , we can see why he feels so strongly that the scope of Marx 's theory has not been recognised . |
| 29 | It may explain why he is making such a mess of the job . |
| 30 | So if Luke had contracted the same strain it might explain why he could n't phone her — |