Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] know why [pers pn] " 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 | She is far more likely to obey the rules if you discuss them with her , so that she knows why you make them . |
| 3 | So the only thing I need to address is finding time to put curriculum statement in and we need to clarify that situation so you know why you 're at and quite happy . |
| 4 | ‘ So he knows why I 'm going ? ’ |
| 5 | I know that you want me , and I know why you would marry me . |
| 6 | " but I know what 's going on , and I know why I 'm here and why you 're here . |
| 7 | I 'm damned if I know why I did n't tell you in the first place , back when all this started happening . |
| 8 | And you know why we 're here as well as I do . |
| 9 | We have a lot of privacies , and a lot of things until we change them , and you know why we changed it , because you went out and saw your clients and told them products and they reported you , and you came back and said but what about this , what about this ? |
| 10 | I hear what you say , and you know why I 'm not going to debate that with you again today . |
| 11 | Well you know it 's a bit difficult and you know why it 's difficult |
| 12 | Sally-Anne opened her eyes , tried to sit up — a mistake that , everything reeled around her again ; but memory had returned and she knew why she was in this room … and even why she had reached there , but not how . |
| 13 | Carrie had seen the accountant 's bill for the previous year 's work and she knew why he never complained . |
| 14 | ‘ Do that , ’ urged Gwenellen , ‘ and ask if she knows why he 's never married . |
| 15 | If we knew why she was killed in that way we would be closer to the truth . ’ |
| 16 | Children who are able to understand explanations and who enjoy a relationship of trust and affection with their parents usually listen to firm demands and prohibitions from them — especially if they know why they are necessary . |
| 17 | No one really wants to know about him , and he knows why he agreed to do the film , why on the last day of shooting he dismissed it as a ‘ stinker ’ , what he thinks of it now . |
| 18 | But I know why I feel guilty . |
| 19 | ‘ No , sir , I do n't know that , but I know why he was waiting at the gate . |
| 20 | However , as Jencks ( 1987 ) has pointed out , intriguing as the adoption studies findings are , they are of no practical interest unless we know why they arise — and at present we do not . |
| 21 | But we know why they 're |
| 22 | Under his gaze she had to go to the sitting-room where she had slept , while he knew why she went and knelt by the sleeping-bag , which was only just out of his line of sight . |