Example sentences of "i know why " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more I work with oak , the more I know why . |
| 2 | However , her favourite roles came in two Glenn Miller movies Sun Valley Serenade ( 1941 ) , as the band 's vocalist ( Pat Friday dubbing her singing ‘ I Know Why ’ ) , and as one of the Orchestra Wives the following year . |
| 3 | ‘ I know why you 're at that school . |
| 4 | As they went downstairs , Marjorie said thoughtfully , ‘ I think I know why , now . ’ |
| 5 | Now I know why he whacked me , I would whack me too . |
| 6 | I know why . |
| 7 | Blind with rage : I know why they say blind — I could n't see him , I could n't see anything — I did n't think what to say , I was just saying it , shouting it , fury pouring out of me like hot tar — my hands were on my hips and clinging on so as to stop myself tearing his straggly hair out , gouging his eyes out , strangling him till his voice went gurgle-croak and his body went limp . |
| 8 | ‘ I think I know why I flunked my exams , ’ I said between huge mouthfuls . |
| 9 | Mark : I know why . |
| 10 | ‘ Now I know why you wear those glasses . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I know why there 's water ’ he said slowly . |
| 12 | And I said , ‘ I know why you picked the name Roger Short , because Shorty Rogers did an album once on a label he was n't supposed to , and changed his name from Shorty Rogers to Roger Short . ’ |
| 13 | But there is no issue for which simply to deduce from socially prescribed principles combined with factual propositions would be anything but a mechanical conformity ; I know why I should do the prescribed thing only if , at least at my moments of fullest awareness from other viewpoints , I feel moved to do so . |
| 14 | Now I think I know why Moslems wrap their women in black from head to toe . |
| 15 | But I can see that you are bewildered , and I know why . |
| 16 | I know why you are so jumpy , Mama , but you must n't think you are the only one who is being put out . |
| 17 | I know why my experienced colleague and I were both having trouble with the yarn looping at the edges . |
| 18 | I know why . |
| 19 | I hear some people in court and I say to myself ‘ I know why you are not here every day ’ . |
| 20 | Even in its earlier LP format this had always struck me as one of the very finest of the Hall é/Pye; recordings , and now I know why . |
| 21 | But I know why I feel guilty . |
| 22 | I know why you left Delta . |
| 23 | Sales of her autobiography , I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , and of Maya Angelou : Poems have enjoyed an enormous boost . |
| 24 | ‘ I know why I did it ! |
| 25 | " I know why , I think it 's because now there 's a reason why I must . |
| 26 | ‘ I know why you 're so easy to talk to , ’ Clare said . |
| 27 | I 've no doubt you 'll ‘ take care of me ’ … and I know why , you canny bastard ! ’ |
| 28 | Now I know why your Adolph Hitler says you 're the master race . |
| 29 | Mickey Aronson could not resist nudging his landlady beside him and whispering : ‘ Now I know why Klugman is going to Palestine . |
| 30 | I was puzzled at first but now I know why they do it , why they stretch their throats like that . |