Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] why [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | well I have , I 'm making adjustments , what I mean , what I 'd finished it , I did n't bother to try it cos it did n't work , now I found out why it do n't work I have to change the rod , I 've got the rod in the wrong place |
2 | ‘ MY OFFICIALS looked sick … but somehow I have seen a shaft of light ; I know clearly why I am there . |
3 | ‘ I know not why he troubled — keeping us both standing about catching our death of cold ! ’ |
4 | ‘ I know now why you did what you did in the hall , ’ Murtach said . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ‘ I remember now why I left the Army ’ George muttered through clenched teeth . |
7 | So I knew exactly why I wanted to conduct it . |
8 | " I knew exactly why you did n't come and I thought you knew why I did n't come to you . |
9 | She says but I do n't why they do n't tells the old man they told me . |
10 | size I do n't why I do n't know if we still do those . |
11 | I do n't why I pay other people ! |
12 | I 'm going to bed cos I 'm actually knackered and I do n't why I 've been sitting here talking |
13 | Well I used to ride a motorbike a and my father had a Triumph motorbike because he bought I do n't why he , why he bought it and he was terrified of it cos it was very fierce ! |
14 | I do n't why it 's changed . |
15 | He said : ‘ I do n't why it happened , but it did n't affect my golf . |
16 | I do n't why it 's for children |
17 | I remembered again why I preferred my bike : when you are shattered you can get off and walk . |
18 | I wonder briefly why they speak in this telegram way when they have something important to say . |
19 | I see now why you 're so anxious to get me married off to Honor . |
20 | I see now why you were so evasive when I said I had n't power of attorney . ’ |
21 | ‘ I see now why you said I could give it back to you when the time was right . ’ |