Example sentences of "i know [adv] why " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ MY OFFICIALS looked sick … but somehow I have seen a shaft of light ; I know clearly why I am there . |
| 2 | ‘ I know not why he troubled — keeping us both standing about catching our death of cold ! ’ |
| 3 | Shaking this off with a gasp and a struggle , I uplifted myself upon the pillows , and , peering earnestly within the intense darkness of the chamber , hearkened — I know not why , except that an instinctive spirit prompted me — to certain low and indefinite sounds which came , through the pauses of the storm , at long intervals , I knew not whence . |
| 4 | What a world you might open up to me … yet all we ever speak of together is guilt and death , I know not why . |
| 5 | ‘ I know now why you did what you did in the hall , ’ Murtach said . |
| 6 | I 'm not saying , twenty-five years later , that big Dave 's metaphor was quite as incisive as Virginia Woolf 's , I 'm just saying that I know now why he was n't entirely wrong . |
| 7 | So I knew exactly why I wanted to conduct it . |
| 8 | When I tried it , it was so beautiful that I knew exactly why people keep doing it . |
| 9 | " I knew exactly why you did n't come and I thought you knew why I did n't come to you . |