Example sentences of "why i [am/are] [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 | I said that 's why I 'm phoning you . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , of course , that 's why I 'm phoning you . |
| 16 | Which is why I 'm buying it . |
| 17 | and it keeps on cutting out , that 's why I 'm stopping it by the way . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's why I 'm shortening it , ’ said Madge Grimsilk from the floor . |
| 19 | But I do n't know why I 'm telling you this , because you 're going to do exactly what you want to anyway . ’ |
| 20 | " That 's why I 'm telling you , " he said , " because you 're my darling Nico 's greatest friend . " |
| 21 | I do n't know why I 'm telling you all this . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | That 's why I 'm sending you with him to Lisbon . |
| 24 | In fact , that 's why I 'm meeting him . |
| 25 | Which is why I 'm tripling it from this moment . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I wonder why I 'm finding it difficult to believe a single word uttered by those gorgeous lips , ’ he murmured . |
| 27 | That 's why I 'm keeping her with me . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ That 's why I 'm keeping her at my place for the moment . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You may wonder why I 'm following you . |
| 30 | Now , what I was gon na do now was go through this quoick transformation right , you 're not gon na be asked t to produce it in an exam or anything like that , but the reason why I 'm doing it now is that you will need it for your er , your Q M exam not er your exam , your project right , cos there is a similar applicat , it 's quite a commonly used tool you 'll find er , where wherever we have a , erm , an expression with an infinite number of erm possibilities or an in infinite number of arguments . |