Example sentences of "the time because " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of field-work a constable newly transferred to the Neighbourhood Unit from one of the sections expressed his difficulties in adjusting to the new round of duties , stating that it was more difficult to pass the time because nothing seemed to happen ( FN 17/12/87 , p. 16 ) : establishing informal contact with the public was not yet itself seen as doing police work and boredom was unappealing . |
| 2 | And that meant a lot to me at the time because all the paintings I was doing were subjects from my childhood years . |
| 3 | Some people wear it all the time because they think it acts as a barrier against the weather but I believe in letting your skin breathe so I always wear as little as possible . |
| 4 | England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe . |
| 5 | The British film Genevieve ( 1953 ) was unusually piquant for the time because the old car 's destination was tacitly acknowledged to be a ‘ dirty weekend ’ in Brighton . |
| 6 | They fit tightly most of the time because of the damp , but when we have a hot dry summer they shrink and you can lift them up easily . |
| 7 | ‘ I supported the principle of the community charge at the time because I thought the principle was right . |
| 8 | Some of the deaths are blamed on polonium , an element whose presence during the accident was deliberately kept secret at the time because of its military sensitivity . |
| 9 | Such criticism was doubtless deserved at the time because his films were to Hollywood what some of today 's tabloids are to the newspaper industry . |
| 10 | ‘ McCabe was probably my favourite at the time because he was so intense for three or four years . |
| 11 | If there is no other system of air-conditioning , and the window can not be open all the time because of draughts or security , it should at least be opened once or twice a day for a spell . |
| 12 | ‘ You ca n't keep challenging it all the time because otherwise they just stop listening to you . |
| 13 | ‘ It does n't seem fair for us to lose all the time because of Sarah , Tawny . ’ |
| 14 | Bill was seldom able to put together a consistent run of appearances in our 2nd Division seasons 1921–25 but , when he did play , his graft and pluck were always appreciated by our fans and the press of the time because Palace continually struggled in Division Two and the hard-working , tenacious attitude which Bill always showed was a valuable asset against powerful and more skilled opponents . |
| 15 | I was very annoyed and upset at the time because there were other girls of my age in the dale and they could go and I could not . |
| 16 | He did n't know how to cope with someone who was nice to him all the time because all the other people that he knew best ( including his parents ) had always been unkind to him . |
| 17 | In Lancaster , where I 'd come out , there had always been a mixed scene ; in many places outside the big towns , most of the lesbians and gay men continued to hang together for at least part of the time because there did n't seem enough of us to consider doing much else . |
| 18 | The West Stand will be out of commission at the time because of the ground 's redevelopment , which has started with the construction of stands to replace the north and south terracing . |
| 19 | She felt sick all the time because of the baby , and she ate nothing . |
| 20 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |
| 21 | Or that you ca n't use ‘ person with a physical impairment ’ all the time because the phrase is too long ! |
| 22 | Flushed and triumphant after this orgy of extravagance , they left the store at last , keeping an eye on the time because Mabel must n't be late with the boys ' tea whatever happened and then they had a long , annoying wait at the bus-stop . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Of course , she gets away with it most of the time because she 's so pretty . |
| 25 | However , Beecroft 's attempts , little noted at the time because they were mounted from Fernando Po , proved much more successful than the highly publicized expeditions that set out from England . |
| 26 | He knew the time because they had arranged to meet on the hour but he was a few minutes late and she was waiting . |
| 27 | He remembered the time because it was the last fare he carried before taking a tea-break . |
| 28 | I wondered at the time because it was professional jealousy after all , I suppose . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I was embarrassed at the time because it was a serious occasion but secretly I was also very flattered . |
| 30 | But by the time I 'd got to the summer term the things that had failed had failed and I knew why , and I was n't feeling too inclined to change them particularly at the time because they had n't failed to the point where the class was in chaos . |