Example sentences of "[adj] because [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 2 | it 's easier because you missed some booklets out , . |
| 3 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
| 4 | He got to No 10 because he had 18 months earlier forced Neville Chamberlain to readmit him to the Cabinet . |
| 5 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 6 | I got muddled because I thought that teacher , it 's just a psychology . |
| 7 | Gloucester 's power was valuable because it ensured royal control of a significant and troublesome part of the country . |
| 8 | Gloucester 's power was valuable because it ensured royal control of a significant and troublesome part of the country . |
| 9 | They were lucky because they had each other . |
| 10 | Edmund was lucky because he got this chance to do a university you see in |
| 11 | She said when you came and I rang to confirm it all she said you 're very lucky because he agreed thirteen pounds and we do n't do it for under fifteen pounds now . |
| 12 | The government put this here after ‘ Forty-six because they wanted one spot of safety in a wilderness of hatred , and because they thought they might as well get some good of this country once they 'd ruined it . |
| 13 | This was the case in the Weimar Republic , where the parliament , although endowed with strong formal powers , was vulnerable because it lacked public support . |
| 14 | Anyway , one day I had tickets to see Mike Oldfield and I was really upset because we had these gigs and so I had to sell them . |
| 15 | He would get upset because he forgot some books and say he was stupid . |
| 16 | It was terrific because we had young boys out there . ’ |
| 17 | On the other hand , there were those feminists represented by Josephine Butler who believed that prostitution was evil because it destroyed human dignity but who also believed the prostitute had a right not to be harassed , and if she was an adult she even had a right to choose to become a prostitute . |
| 18 | I was really really happy because we had nine days off school I was very relieved . |
| 19 | County boroughs totally opted out of the surrounding county council 's affairs , but for the other types of subordinate authorities the situation was complicated because they performed some functions for themselves while other functions in their areas , such as education , were run by the county council . |
| 20 | Until then Frank had been safe because they had each other , and the things that troubled him were half buried and might well have sunk past danger . |
| 21 | Only last week Davis scored a course record 65 at Knebworth ( unoffical because he enjoyed preferred lies ) to win the Hertfordshire boys ' title at the expense of Hamilton , who also lost out to Davis in 1991 . |
| 22 | The impact of these discoveries was considerable because they reinforced other fears amongst individuals whose concern with social issues had not previously been notable . |
| 23 | Her experiment was successful because she exacted high standards of cleanliness and co-operation ; but it also involved her exceptional degree of commitment , and although her success was often cited and sometimes emulated , it could no more serve as a general prescription than the 5 per cent philanthropy of Peabody and others . |
| 24 | I mention him in particular because he understood that opera concerns those ecstatic moments when a man or a woman has to use a means of expression other than the spoken word . |
| 25 | Conversation was difficult because she walked several yards behind Joe , and always crossed the street at least two cars ' lengths away . |
| 26 | The cost of feeding and clothing a giant child was astronomical because they demanded large quantities of food and needed large pieces of cloth to cover them . |
| 27 | Many defendants have been fined of more than a thousand pounds , simnplky because they earned reasonable salries . |
| 28 | He explained to me that it must be stronger because it contained stronger bonds and more of them than any previous material . |
| 29 | ‘ Customers said it was great that we were open because it showed some normality in the town . ’ |
| 30 | She made the decision to go out on her own because she wanted more freedom to pursue her many interests . |