Example sentences of "why i [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is one reason why I 've just started to learn the piano . |
| 2 | This is it , I 've tried , this is why I 've not talked to somebody else about it , because nobody else is listening . |
| 3 | I do n't know why I 've not noticed it before . |
| 4 | I know there 's not , maybe that 's why I 've Where did you get that lemonade up the stairs Raymond ? |
| 5 | That 's why I 've never married . |
| 6 | ‘ I naturally believe that the financial profits of the drug-suppliers are offensive , ’ Ellen said , ‘ which is why I 've only used cocaine on a handful of occasions . |
| 7 | I always go hammer and tongs at my running and then wonder why I end up with chest pains sore throats , dead legs , etc . |
| 8 | I do n't know why I mean why I like Polo . |
| 9 | But why I mean so stupid . |
| 10 | That 's why I charge so much . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's why I come up here . |
| 12 | why I come straight across . |
| 13 | ‘ You can see why I remember so little . ’ |
| 14 | That 's why I object strongly to the Office 's plugging me in as an Automatic Nurse for one night ! ’ |
| 15 | And why I sit here , husbandless , dependent upon social security supplemented by such pitiful amounts of money as I can wring out of the national press , and Bernard genuflects once more , fled back to his baptismal church , terrified by the very notion of living outside it . |
| 16 | I 'll tell you something , Dr. Briant , I do n't know why I put up with you and your arrogant ways , that I do n't ! |
| 17 | ‘ That 's why I put in for the R.F.C. We 're literally the only sportsmen left . ’ |
| 18 | Erm , so that 's why I put down six , so , you could also put , you know , if you want to , it all down to the matter of doing the same job , |
| 19 | That is why I ask where the recovery will come from in housing . |
| 20 | Mind , God knows why I keep on recording the children for posterity , the way they are now . |
| 21 | Yes , well I think that 's why you that 's why I keep on trying to come back to the regulatory system , because what you really in fundamental form a pension is a contract between an employer and an individual , you know you pay me so much money and when you get to a certain age I will pay you . |
| 22 | That 's why I take so long over it . |
| 23 | People are always asking me why I dress strangely , or saying , ‘ What does your mother think of your outfits ? ’ |
| 24 | This is one of the reasons why I set up my Foundations . |
| 25 | I tell you why I get up , I get up because I came back from that conference . |
| 26 | Probably why I get so screwed up . ’ |
| 27 | I know he is , that 's why I get so irritated with him cos I see my failings in him so clearly ! |
| 28 | I do n't know why I get too flattered you know . |
| 29 | ‘ People have probably begun to wonder by now why I spend so much time in the club , ’ he said evenly . |
| 30 | That 's why I crawl down holes and chuck myself off cliffs and ride the bike — it 's been the only way I could feel alive , but since I met you I 've come alive in other ways , ways I 'd forgotten long ago . |