Example sentences of "[vb past] why [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aberdeen 's Eoin Jess , in the starting line-up for the first time , was the most consistent player throughout but the longer the game went on , the more Malta demonstrated why they have proved so difficult to beat . |
| 2 | Eoin Jess was the most consistent player throughout but the longer the game went on , the more Malta demonstrated why they have proved so difficult to beat . |
| 3 | Riven forgot why he had come , and stood in grudging admiration for their speed and sureness . |
| 4 | I guessed why she had brought me round into the shadow . |
| 5 | All at once he pictured again the sun striking the glass and understood why it had done so . |
| 6 | He knew why they had swept him from his horse and he was terrified of what they would do to him . |
| 7 | She knew why she had pulled away from him the night before — because she could n't allow herself to become remotely interested in him . |
| 8 | She had known Sam all her life and though he was a worthy and hard-working man , she knew why she had held back from agreeing to marry him . |
| 9 | And then he knew why she had come . |
| 10 | She also knew why she had come here with him today . |
| 11 | All right , he now knew why she had come — not to follow him as he 'd thought , but to deliver the letters ; but that still did n't explain his anger . |
| 12 | To him , she was still the same Alyssia , and heaven only knew why he had slept with her . |
| 13 | Lalage knew why he had told her . |
| 14 | She knew why he had come and what he would tell her , and she did n't want to hear it . |
| 15 | She knew why he had come before he knocked on her door . |
| 16 | Knew why he had come . |
| 17 | ‘ When I saw you again I knew why I had waited so long to marry . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Ranulf believed the French were responsible ; Corbett at first agreed , but then queried why they had waited so long and privately concluded that the attackers were from Lord Bruce 's retinue . |
| 20 | But then her pride and her curiosity had got the better of her again , and she remembered why she had agreed to the meeting in the first place . |
| 21 | Her voice rose , as she thought she realised why he had kissed her earlier . |
| 22 | IT 'S NOT easy , in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington , to explain the importance of The Oval cricket ground in Kennington , yet such was my lot when in 1978 , shortly after my family and I had left South Africa following certain differences of opinion with our government , President Jimmy Carter kindly invited my in and asked why we had chosen Britain and not America as our country of refuge . |
| 23 | She asked why I had said nothing about that accident on the bypass , or seeing Old Red and General Francis on my holiday . |
| 24 | I may have been called a pillock and a dickhead , but no one asked why I had tried to brain my companion . |
| 25 | Martinho never asked why I 'd stopped . |
| 26 | When the student asked why he had written " your " slippers , the melamed answered : " Yold ! |
| 27 | DAVID went to sea and rose to command a naval ship ; after losing an arm in a naval battle , he was offered but refused a knighthood ; in his book Memorials of Ochiltree , David Ramsay says that when David 's brother James Tennant asked why he had refused the honour , he replied , ‘ Deed , Jamie , I just considered it little better than a nickname . ’ |
| 28 | He asked why he had continued to use it to destroy the character of a witness after being warned that it was confidential . |
| 29 | Then Joseph realized why they had come upon the city so completely by surprise ; it was the uncanny silence . |
| 30 | Recalled to the present by the cold of the flagstones numbing her feet and automatically aligning the cup handles , she suddenly realized why she had remembered that summer teatime in Martyr 's Cottage . |