Example sentences of "[pron] why he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did Boy ever ask himself why he did n't dream about men , when he got home from The Bar — why he had instead these strange dreams of shoots , bulbs and roots ; roots kept in the dark , waiting to flower , needing a gardener 's attention ? |
| 2 | It comes down to asking himself why he is so much on the defensive . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman should ask himself why he is so keen to see people who are entitled to vote not able to do so . |
| 4 | I ca n't tell you why he did it . |
| 5 | ‘ And I 'll tell you why he came to you , shall I ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 've told you why he was killed . ’ |
| 7 | Was it apparent to you why he would call for P C to come into the room ? |
| 8 | I 'll tell you why he 's probably not going to be on the mar market committee because his daughter had a |
| 9 | You why he 's racing ? |
| 10 | It was easy enough to rationalise , to calmly explain to herself why he had done that , but her senses went their own way , remembering not the insult but the strength of his arms , the tang of his skin , the instinctive feeling that his lips had wanted to soften and soothe her . |
| 11 | As she had dressed she 'd kept on asking herself why he had come . |
| 12 | ‘ I asked her why he was n't married , and she did n't want me thinking there was anything wrong with him , so she told me . |
| 13 | I asked him why he had decided to marry me . |
| 14 | I asked him why he 'd lost his own teeth and he said the cause had been pyorrhea . |
| 15 | She asked him why he could not leave her alone , in view of what the other man had already done to her , but he turned off the lights and told her to undress . |
| 16 | Mungo was about to ask him why he called it that , but hesitated , certain that either Vic or Emily , or both , would think him over-inquisitive . |
| 17 | I was a fool ; I ought to have let it go at that , but I asked him why he did n't approve — and had a regular tirade ! |
| 18 | ‘ I once asked him why he did it and he just said he and Parul were sexually incompatible . |
| 19 | When Madame Denis asked him why he went to such lengths , he answered , ‘ Esther , one should do like the good God ; from time to time one should go and live among His own . ’ |
| 20 | A few days later while driving him home , she asked him why he 'd hit her and , she alleged , ‘ He went crazy again , punching me so I nearly lost control of the car . ’ |
| 21 | My friend asked him why he was carrying the crop . |
| 22 | Once , on a rare occasion before their marriage when they were left without a chaperone , she had asked him why he had n't married before ? |
| 23 | Several months ago at a party I asked him why he had n't written a book about his years in the Himalaya . |
| 24 | Interviewing Giorgio Moroder earlier this year , I asked him why he and his co-producer , Pete Bellotte , had decided to extend ‘ Love To Love You Baby ’ into a 17-minute orgasmic epic . |
| 25 | A few days later he had a letter from a listener asking him why he 'd told them that his gas bill was arriving the following day . |
| 26 | Good-natured critics in the dressing-room wink and ask him why he saves all his best cricket for New Zealand . |
| 27 | Dick fancies that the Examiner has asked him why he has not thought of rigging a drogue ( a thought which has in fact harassed Dick for some time ) . |
| 28 | When W. H. Auden once found him playing that game and asked him why he seemed to relish it , he reflected gravely and then replied , " Well , I suppose it 's the nearest thing to being dead " . |
| 29 | Section 28 varies the decision in Leachinsky in that Lord Simon said that if the facts were obvious , if , for example the suspect has been caught red handed , it was not necessary to inform him why he had been arrested . |
| 30 | I asked him why he so dearly wished to walk in a street as dank as a sewer , and to play by the waters of an oily , rat-infested canal , when we had the exquisite reaches of the Seine at hand , and the gardens of his school friends . |