Example sentences of "[vb base] know why " in BNC.
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| 1 | It feels as though my whole world is collapsing about my ears — and I intend to know why ! ’ |
| 2 | If you want to know why Phillipe Starck appears in just about every magazine , why Tokyo is still the in-place for designers , and why no one gives a tinker 's cuss about public design , your chance to find out is at a public debate next Friday under the gaze of Rubens 's corpulent characters on the painted ceiling of the Banqueting House in Whitehall . |
| 3 | If you want to know why the charts are no good these days , therefore , do n't blame Radio One : blame Billie Holiday , Stax , Sam Cooke , Blind Lemon Jefferson even . |
| 4 | Horror writer Stephen King on the secret of his success : ‘ People want to know why I write such gross stuff . |
| 5 | I want to know why Ewan Famber wanted to die . |
| 6 | ‘ Yet now , all of a sudden , you want to know why I think it 's so important . |
| 7 | They want to know why it has great psychological appeal . |
| 8 | IF YOU want to know why journalists and printers are obsessed with adopting new technologies , look at p139 of last week 's issue ( 20 January ) . |
| 9 | As Maxine Waters , the US congresswoman for South Central put it , in a sermon in the First American Methodist Episcopal Church last Sunday , ‘ People want to know why I 'm not saying exactly what they want me to say . |
| 10 | If you want to know why things have turned out as they are , you 've got to go back to the beginning . ’ |
| 11 | When I work in a particular area I want to know why a landscape looks as it does . |
| 12 | I want to know why Froggy was so confident that his financial ship was about to dock . |
| 13 | Grieving parents want to know why Grantham Hospital officials failed to react sooner to the mysterious deaths and illnesses on Allitt 's ward . |
| 14 | I want to know why you 're having me watched , why you need to know every move I make , why you must have control over everything I do . " |
| 15 | Econometrics appears to help in determining budgets , and in the deployment of media expenditure — but when an econometrician tells me I should adopt a ‘ drip ’ pattern on TV rather than a ‘ burst ’ pattern ( see page 115 ) , I want to know why . |
| 16 | Now advertisers want to know why they 're still paying this premium to be first , when being first means that they 're actually fourth , fifth , sixth or seventh . |
| 17 | They want to know why I 'm drinking Diet Coke . |
| 18 | It 's like , I 've already been asked , and I 've refused , and I want to know why is it people put so much pressure on you to get married ? |
| 19 | And if you write a letter they do n't like , they bring it back and want to know why you 've written certain things . |
| 20 | And I want to know why . ’ |
| 21 | I want to know why it 's there at all . |
| 22 | I want to know why my husband was heard screaming . ’ |
| 23 | And they want to know why … ’ cos the other children have got them and why ca n't they have this and why ca n't they do this … it 's hard , it 's really hard on them . |
| 24 | ‘ Prentice , I believe you seem determined to fuck your life up , and I just want to know why . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I want to know why she was n't stopped there , ’ an angry voice from the other side of the room interrupted him . |
| 26 | And if you 're not , they want to know why you 're not . |
| 27 | They want to know why we have to send in so often for reimbursment . |
| 28 | I want to know why I 'm being victimised against . " |
| 29 | I want to know why they did it and especially why they did what they did with the head … |
| 30 | ‘ I want to know why you came to look for me . ’ |