Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] know why [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to know why they did it and especially why they did what they did with the head … |
| 2 | We are pensioners with no help from Income Support so I want to know why we should pay for these people , a lot of them are much better off than we are and can afford to smoke and drink . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to know why she was n't stopped there , ’ an angry voice from the other side of the room interrupted him . |
| 4 | I want to know why my husband was heard screaming . ’ |
| 5 | I want to know why it 's there at all . |
| 6 | 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 . " |
| 7 | ‘ I want to know why you came to look for me . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I want to know why you left Gloucester , ’ stated fitzAlan . |
| 9 | ‘ And I want to know why you cried , please . ’ |
| 10 | I want to know why I 'm being victimised against . " |
| 11 | ‘ If I 'd known why it mattered so much to you I 'd have tried harder to make you accept the truth , ’ she said , yielding to her own regrets for a moment . |
| 12 | I mean that 's all it , as I say , I do n't know why I did n't think of it cos in the she well I do know why I did n't think of |
| 13 | ‘ I wanted to know why you need all this detail . |
| 14 | ‘ I wanted to know why I could n't have children and what was wrong with me , rather than talk to other people who could n't . ’ |
| 15 | I wanted to know why she thought I would be the least bit interested in all that drivel I had just had to sit through . |
| 16 | Hick , speaking as the England squad completed its pre-Indian tour preparations at Lilleshall yesterday , added : ‘ I wanted to know why my form in the one-day internationals was good , while I could n't do it in the Tests . |
| 17 | Do n't you want to know why he 's been looking for you ? ’ |
| 18 | " Do n't you want to know why I did ? " |
| 19 | Do you want to know why I 'm wearing two pairs of knickers because |
| 20 | And , seventy seven people say yes , and twenty three people say no , and are n't you fascinated to know why they voted that way ? |
| 21 | You want to know why he 's coming . |
| 22 | ‘ Yet now , all of a sudden , you want to know why I think it 's so important . |
| 23 | Will you need to know why she needs to tape record ? |
| 24 | She wanted to know why he never brought anything home , why he had no reading book . |
| 25 | She wanted to know why he had not written to her . |
| 26 | If you suffer from its effects , you need to know why it happens and what you can do to reduce its impact … or to eliminate it altogether . |
| 27 | We wanted to know why we , and all other complicated things , exist . |
| 28 | We need to know why there was a war , and what factors in the early fourteenth century were influential in encouraging it . |
| 29 | They want to know why we have to send in so often for reimbursment . |
| 30 | They want to know why I 'm drinking Diet Coke . |