Example sentences of "[pers pn] know [adv] why [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ MY OFFICIALS looked sick … but somehow I have seen a shaft of light ; I know clearly why I am there . |
| 2 | ‘ I know now why you did what you did in the hall , ’ Murtach said . |
| 3 | I 'm not saying , twenty-five years later , that big Dave 's metaphor was quite as incisive as Virginia Woolf 's , I 'm just saying that I know now why he was n't entirely wrong . |
| 4 | So I knew exactly why I wanted to conduct it . |
| 5 | " I knew exactly why you did n't come and I thought you knew why I did n't come to you . |
| 6 | She knew finally why she had stayed to suffer in this way , so she could explain to him and he would see . |
| 7 | Now , a couple of soothing hours later — she 'd spent most of that time at the Killearn workshop — she knew exactly why she 'd reacted as she had . |
| 8 | She knew then why he had done it , why he had kissed her and taken his time . |
| 9 | She knew now why she had been born , born for his love only . |
| 10 | She knew now why she had always disliked him . |
| 11 | We know now why they wanted aboard the Ariadne . |
| 12 | Consequently the professional should discuss what has happened with the parents and make quite certain they know exactly why they have been advised to adopt certain practices . |
| 13 | The way we know at all as human beings means not only that none of us knows everything but that none of us knows absolutely why we know anything . |