Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl he got sacked because of . ’ |
| 2 | Er a a and with a family row in in it as well you can imagine the work involved was a bit more than initially might have been expected and I got criticized because the bill was bigger than I had first estimated cos I did n't expect there 'd be trouble from the father . |
| 3 | Michael , 45 , who quit boozing because it threatened to wreck his life , has given up another ‘ vice ’ — being too generous . |
| 4 | ‘ Earth stopped dying because of the AOL . |
| 5 | like to look after my mother , er she was one , and she died now erm she died two years ago , I think she was one of the first to go and er , the other one they fetched him out of the street the chap then they corresponded with him up to the war but , but after that , they , I do n't know whether they stopped writing because of the war , I do n't know , but they never , never got in touch with them never again so |
| 6 | no I did n't , I stopped paying because |
| 7 | Not angry but loving calls , which the midwife tried to hush because she had never encountered young women who could yell abuse so lovingly ; , |
| 8 | The marriage stopped working because we stopped talking , and when things started going wrong , instead of addressing the issues head on , I began volunteer work for the Samaritans . |
| 9 | I stopped working because I decided that the only way to make it was to go full time . |
| 10 | I guess she really liked those , she only got moved because of er the |
| 11 | ‘ I got done because they wanted a scapegoat . |
| 12 | By the mid-fifties , party programmes and party politics no longer seemed to matter because nothing major was at issue , and so the theory of responsible party government appeared to be increasingly irrelevant . |
| 13 | The previous year she had produced a lovely baby boy called Tom and despite great efforts to reduce her weight , nothing seemed to work because all the diets left her feeling hungry . |
| 14 | Then he holes the putt , and I knew he 'd won because he was three shots in front . |
| 15 | times for auctioning though was er when shops went bankrupt , er especially chocolate shops , cos then we had a good time after he 'd done because we usually got loads of chocolate which was a luxury . . |
| 16 | And er that 's how I performed the , but I kept it to myself all these years you know and never told anybody what I 'd done because I think it was terrible . |
| 17 | goodies that they 'd got because they all worked in the docks ! |
| 18 | She 'd cried because she thought he was going to be hit . |
| 19 | Swansea deserved to win because , hard though they tried to disguise it , they actually were the better side , and in Robert Jones and the accomplished Tony Clement , they had half-backs capable of rising above the long grass slicked by rain and the inevitable slippery ball . |
| 20 | Chapman made no excuses — ‘ I say frankly there are none , — and agreed that Newcastle deserved to win because of their superiority in the second half . |
| 21 | But I 'd disappeared because I 'd a man shouting ‘ fruit and vegetables ’ ( in those days , you had to have your name and address on your cart ) . |
| 22 | There was the same combination that I had seen before : collected in groups that seemed threatening because you were not part of them , and between these bright areas black , empty alleys full of odd forebodings . |
| 23 | KATE was left sitting alone once more as Ace stormed off , but she hardly noticed he 'd gone because all she could think about was how the fuel blend had let them down . |
| 24 | I sha n't be coming to New York this spring as I 'd hoped because Monsieur Félix has decided to open a branch of the Maison de Verveine in London instead of New York ! |
| 25 | I felt relieved once I 'd started because at last I felt I was doing something about my life . |
| 26 | But he seemed to think because you 'd had your stroke almost a year ago that I should be over it ; his exact words were that I was looking for sympathy . |
| 27 | The basic view is best expressed by Skinner himself : ‘ A person disposed to act because he has been reinforced for acting may feel the conditions of his body at such a time and call it ‘ felt purpose' ’ , but what behaviourism rejects is the causal efficacy of that feeling . ’ |
| 28 | It could be the case that version A was perceived as a radically sceptical play and that the B version later came to dominate because the authorities were unhappy with the other version which more manifestly challenged orthodoxies . |
| 29 | Melville explains , ‘ The downside got overlooked because of the crusading side , but eventually I got the sex mag blues . |
| 30 | For what it 's worth , I merely took the opportunity to discuss a radio-related matter with him when we happened to meet because I 've kept missing him at work these last couple of days . |