Example sentences of "[pron] ask why [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In preparing my speech I recalled ( as the reader also may ) the occasion during my first watch in Tartar when the first lieutenant had shown me the various instruments on the bridge , and that when I asked why one had a canvas cover , he had said , ‘ Oh , that 's the Mountbatten station-keeping gear , and we keep it covered because the captain finds it quite useless . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ No , no , we are not brave , we are very frightened ’ , was the inevitable response when I asked why they always fled . |
| 3 | When I asked why they chose me , George said , because you are the President of the Oxford Drama Club/my bank manager/my oldest friend/the boss/have known us for twenty-five years/you are the tallest/you have the loudest voice/ , and Martha said , because you have known Annabelle since she was fourteen/a baby/a child/all her life/at school/at college/you tell the best jokes . |
| 4 | Of course , I began to suspect — it was terrible and at last I asked why my father did n't write to me . |
| 5 | I asked why he could n't just plead guilty . |
| 6 | ‘ I asked why you want to know . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I asked why you had to be going . ’ |
| 8 | I ask why he is following me . |
| 9 | I believe you 're the officer that 's responsible for it can I ask why there was nothing in the report . |
| 10 | ‘ May I ask why you moved out here ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ May I ask why you sold out ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ May I ask why you did this , Axel ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ May I ask why you did n't do that in the first place ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Might I ask why you left it ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ May I ask why you did n't say anything when I explained what I was doing in Venice ? ’ |
| 16 | Can I ask why it 's storing up misery for the children ? |
| 17 | ‘ But first , ’ Husband said again , glancing quickly at Agnes ; ‘ may I ask why our sister service is represented here ? — no matter how prettily . |
| 18 | With unfailing respect , may I ask why I was not called on the Yarrow statement ? |
| 19 | But Gaily could not bring himself to ask why she did not return to it . |
| 20 | ( Remember the story of the small boy who asked why his French visitor called something a shoe when it was obviously a cabbage . ) |
| 21 | Yet there were also incentives for Louis IX to come to terms : Joinville reports that Louis replied to his critics , who asked why he should give away ‘ so great a part of your land , that you and your ancestors have conquered , and which has been forfeited ’ , that he had given Henry , Aquitaine , Gascony and the three dioceses ‘ to create affection between my children and his , who are cousins-germain' . |
| 22 | On the road he met a friend who asked why he had not brought any ammunition . |
| 23 | ‘ You asked why they are here ? ’ |
| 24 | Mary must have noticed my changed mood because she asked why I was so miserable . |
| 25 | She asked why I had said nothing about that accident on the bypass , or seeing Old Red and General Francis on my holiday . |
| 26 | Then she asked why I was laughing again , and I said that that was n't what had happened , and she looked angry , and I had a shower . |
| 27 | There are even those who ask why they can not be inspected by those who advise them . |
| 28 | I may have been called a pillock and a dickhead , but no one asked why I had tried to brain my companion . |
| 29 | If one asks why it is bad to hold logically inconsistent factual beliefs , the most obvious part of the answer is that if one does so , one guarantees that one will have a false belief within this area of one 's thought . |
| 30 | Yet it is inevitable that at the present time of confusion and reform we ask why we should be dependent upon these two great blocks of examinations , at these two particular points in a student 's school career . |