Example sentences of "ask i why [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she asked me why we treated social services staff differently from everyone else . |
| 2 | One day when we were vacationing in Santa Fe in 1943 my daughter , Jennifer , who was then 3 , asked me why she could not see the picture I had just taken of her . |
| 3 | ‘ I saw my bank manager at the end of last year and she asked me why I was spending so much on food . |
| 4 | Back in the changing room at the end of the period Alec Davidson casually asked me why I always put my shoes inside my satchel during the gym lesson . |
| 5 | ‘ When my friends asked me why I left the ministry , I told them the focus was too narrow . |
| 6 | ‘ While we were being taken there , one of the gunmen asked me why I was hanging out with white guys . |
| 7 | Nellie rounded on me angrily and asked me why I wanted to know . |
| 8 | A friend of mine once asked me why I always sought to heighten experiences , and could not be satisfied with the middle ground . |
| 9 | Also , some cheeky oik ( ca n't remember his name ) asked me why I never put any of my personal scores in this section . |
| 10 | When they asked me why I did n't have a British passport that 's when the immigration problems started . |
| 11 | This woman , an assistant governor , I think , asked me why I did it . |
| 12 | They asked me why I tried to do it — whether I was attention-seeking ! |
| 13 | She asked me why I tried to commit suicide . |
| 14 | I got there and they asked me why I did n't get there sooner . |
| 15 | Instead , she asked me why I thought I drank so much , and I told her why I thought I did . |
| 16 | My father asked me why I said these awful things . |
| 17 | People are always asking me why I dress strangely , or saying , ‘ What does your mother think of your outfits ? ’ |
| 18 | And there was a question in her voice ; it was asking me why I 'd asked such a thing . |
| 19 | Only after they were built did the Manager of Shawcraft ask me why I had n't made the base more cone-shaped . |
| 20 | ‘ Ah , but I need to know for sure , you see , because I have some doubts , and before you ask me why I should be so concerned I will assure you that this time it is partly for my own self-esteem that I would like to know . ’ |
| 21 | They all ask me why I am so clever . |
| 22 | people ask me why I do music . |
| 23 | ‘ Englishman , you have not asked me why I am here … ’ |
| 24 | My dates used to ask me why I was always hanging out with faggots . ’ |
| 25 | Merton 's clothes on this show had by now reached previously unfathomed depths : shrunk , unironed Magic Roundabout T-shirts and lumberjack shirts without washing instructions ( on the one occasion Merton wore a smart suit , he stopped the show mid-way through and exclaimed : ‘ Is n't anyone going to ask me why I 'm looking so smart today ? ’ ) . |
| 26 | Do n't ask me why they chose that game . |
| 27 | When I went to that rodeo with Jerry and I was n't home until after midnight , Harry did n't even ask me why I was so late — and he knew the time because he 'd been down to see if Islay 's foal was better . |
| 28 | tell me , did n't even ask me why I wanted to know . |