Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] why [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice . |
| 2 | ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it . |
| 3 | She is far more likely to obey the rules if you discuss them with her , so that she knows why you make them . |
| 4 | It seemed so quick and easy when the time came that she wondered why she had waited so long . |
| 5 | FRACTAL geometry is one of those concepts which at first sight invites disbelief but on second thought becomes so natural that one wonders why it has only recently been developed . |
| 6 | It was only when they came out of the rearmost door and found a temporary hut facing them with Radio Room marked on the door , that they realised why they had n't found it the first time . |
| 7 | It 's worth pointing this out to your students too , so that they understand why you set the tasks you do when you use video with them . |