Example sentences of "why i [be] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You wonder why I am warning you , instead of rounding you all up ? |
| 2 | It is why I am sending you away . ’ |
| 3 | Most people who notice it at parties are too polite to ask what it is and why I am wearing it , but to the few who do I say ( because I find it embarrassing to explain ) that it is concerned with the story of the sinking of the Bismarck ; and then relish the look of puzzlement on their faces . |
| 4 | In which case , it seems worth asking why I am considering them at all within the limited confines of this book . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't think why I am telling you all this , ’ she said , embarrassed . |
| 6 | Ellen 's is a true story ; perhaps it is even the reason why I am telling you Flaubert 's story instead . |
| 7 | ‘ That also is why I am telling you this . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know why I am telling you all this . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Good , ’ said Miss Hardbroom , ‘ then you will understand why I am giving you one hundred lines which will say ‘ I must tell the truth at all times . ’ ‘ |
| 10 | That is why I am asking you now to become a Friend of Save the Children . |
| 11 | Yes , why I am asking you or I did I say |
| 12 | Speaking as one who is struggling to maintain a reasonable level of racing fitness , I often question myself as to why I am doing it . |
| 13 | Why I am driving you home . |
| 14 | Anyway , it 's one of the minor unfortunate facts of life that a detumescing willy is prone to trap stray pube hairs under the foreskin as it scrolls forward again , and that was why I was adjusting my clothing as we braked for the bend above Cairndow . |
| 15 | That 's why I was thinking I might hang on to the Volvo for another two years until you 've got your own car and then I can buy what I really want . |
| 16 | As I say I , that 's why , that 's really why I was expecting you more towards twelve o'clock time . |
| 17 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Why I was bedding you if I was about to be married to someone else ? ’ he asked softly . |
| 19 | I saw it erm I ran it — I ca n't remember why I was running it , oh I think I wanted to look at an actor erm , oh no , it was at a festival and I had to sit through it and I was very disappointed in it , I found it slow and rather obvious and erm a little lacking in bite . |
| 20 | that 's why I was asking them for , I just want to make it plain my Lord |
| 21 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 22 | I said that 's why I 'm phoning you . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , of course , that 's why I 'm phoning you . |
| 24 | Which is why I 'm buying it . |
| 25 | and it keeps on cutting out , that 's why I 'm stopping it by the way . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's why I 'm shortening it , ’ said Madge Grimsilk from the floor . |
| 27 | But I do n't know why I 'm telling you this , because you 're going to do exactly what you want to anyway . ’ |
| 28 | " That 's why I 'm telling you , " he said , " because you 're my darling Nico 's greatest friend . " |
| 29 | I do n't know why I 'm telling you all this . |
| 30 | Oh they could n't si , yeah do n't forget yo , well I do n't know why I 'm telling you , but , you know your ri , your age range . |