Example sentences of "i [vb past] 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 | Then I realised why my own trousers were short and on the tight side . |
| 9 | I realised why I was wrong about good theatre , about how it can enthrall in a way cinema and television rarely does . |
| 10 | I guessed why she had brought me round into the shadow . |
| 11 | Now I knew why they were so sad , and why they were poor . |
| 12 | I knew why he was fearful . |
| 13 | Now I knew why there were so many badly-written books — Mark was proof-reading them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I knew why I was famous : I was a good lyric writer and had ability on stage . |
| 16 | You 're right , are n't you Yes , once he got going , I knew why I 'd been holding back . |
| 17 | ‘ When I saw you again I knew why I had waited so long to marry . |
| 18 | I saw why it was receding . |
| 19 | Then I saw why he was so confident . |
| 20 | and I thought oh fancy paying all that bloody money , I thought why it 's only a cooker |
| 21 | Later I understood why our national hero was so unpopular : he was the Tory minister who had called out the troops against the miners in the 1920s , an action much more pertinent in our mining town than the defeat of Hitler . |
| 22 | I understood why I had been urged to hurry . |
| 23 | We got along well because I was sympathetic to his cause , and I understood why he was so disturbed by the obvious discrimination by the white man . |
| 24 | on there because I I I I , this following instructions I remembered why I put it now we are , but one you were saying that |
| 25 | I mean I , I enquired why it went to the District Council Environment and Planning Committee rather than the Coastal Planning Committee and the one reason I was told was speed , they could get the thing brought up there that much more quickly . |
| 26 | They keep questioning me , always asking where I was what I did why I did it , did all of them where I was who I was with who am I trying to kid why do n't I just admit I did it well if I did n't do all these things , who did ? |
| 27 | I said why they 'd come for her would n't they ? |
| 28 | I said why what 's wrong with it ? |
| 29 | I said he said no , I said why you want against her , he said yeah , he said what and he said I would of got up and actually run . |
| 30 | I said why she said er she , he said ooh , she said oh hallo and he said erm hallo how are you ? |