Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] because [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And you did n't want her to know about the letters because it would rake it all up again ? ’ |
| 2 | He is happy to write about the monarchy because he believes royalty is ‘ the point where divine qualities become ordinary human qualities ’ . |
| 3 | I was going to ask Mike if he wants to come as an observer because he 's never been to conference and erm |
| 4 | The Chief Constable of the RUC added confusion to the parades policy by announcing that he would permit an Orange church parade on the Sunday before the Twelfth to pass through the Tunnel because it would be a ‘ peaceful , dignified , church parade ’ but insisted that the Twelfth march had to be re-routed . |
| 5 | A friend who had a key let herself in and called upstairs , but I did n't want anyone to come into the bedroom because they might catch whatever it was I had . |
| 6 | ‘ Inmates want to work in the kitchen because it means they can be out of their cells for most of the day and can have a bit of extra food , ’ he says . |
| 7 | I 'll explain it to you , if you 've got to stand in a circle because you ca n't see from over there you wo n't actually ever do this yourself , but you may well see it being done , in fact you probably will . |
| 8 | It was like watching a film or a play and you 're totally caught up in what 's going on and you 're taken out of yourself and everything suddenly has colour and meaning and magic and you forget that outside the rain 's tippling down and tomorrow 's homework has n't been done and you 've got to wash the car to pay Dad back for the money you borrowed to come to the film because you were skint till the end of next week . |
| 9 | Now listen , I want nobody to come over the step because you 're trailing these covers and you 'll get them wet , so inside ! |
| 10 | I would have to guess at the others because I did n't do erm sums on the other ones it was only on the last play but if it 's on the same sort of erm proportions , then I would say somewhere around thirty percent of the audience are concessions . |
| 11 | Klein et al ( 1965 ) found that many older people hesitated to talk about the past because they did not want to meet with rejection , and that many actually needed help and encouragement to reminisce . |
| 12 | Ma was twisting a handkerchief in her hands , and her nose was as red as the apples Anna had been forbidden to pick in the garden because they were to be kept till Christmas . |
| 13 | It is hardly fair to expect a widow , for instance , to sell at a discount because you ca n't find the cash to meet a fair valuation . |
| 14 | Now I do n't expect you to play like the pros because we spend many hours working on every aspect of our game . |
| 15 | I took the trouble in my own district to look into the subject because I could see the way the demand for less services . |
| 16 | I was more of an outsider than ever , but something in me must still have wanted to belong to the family because I was still making deliberate attempts to communicate with the other members . |
| 17 | But tree warden Christine Darter felt nothing was likely to grow on the banks because they were heavily shaded by overhanging trees . |
| 18 | They 've asked him to look at the case because it makes a mockery of justice . |
| 19 | There is no reason to look at the ceiling because it no longer exists . |
| 20 | I believe that er we did n't er consider going to look at the development because it was quite clearly in the minds of a large percentage of us that it was contrary to the town plan and so we did not think it was necessary to do that . |
| 21 | Now , I volunteered to go into the Mediwell because I 'm I do n't like it down there and er , Linda will go into the centre of New into the centre of North Shields with a particular person a a form teacher or whatever , probably . |
| 22 | One has to develop routines to cope with the situation because it is far too complicated a situation to be handled in any other way . |
| 23 | If we are to vote for the family because it is good , warm and loving , what are we to do if it turns cold ? ’ ; it well-nigh accused Labour of giving ‘ a sharp twist to a competitive spiral of wholesome image making ’ ; and it stated that the Tory Government must be defeated by ‘ the issues ’ . |
| 24 | Many councillors said they felt compelled to vote against the motion because they believed in the tenant farmers freedom of choice . |
| 25 | They were able to deal with the problem because they discovered a stream running through an eighteenth-century tunnel next door . |
| 26 | An his wife Carol Ross said : ‘ We ca n't change much to do with the pub because it 's a Grade A listed building . |
| 27 | It might have had something to do with the murder because she seemed to think Ken Harris would be interested . ’ |
| 28 | It 's nice to use on the move , because of the way it 's weighted ( DOS notebooks tend to tip away from you ) but slightly harder to use on the desktop because you have to adopt a Phantom Of The Opera keyboard technique to type properly . |
| 29 | Last night Le Saux said : ‘ I want to apologise to the fans because I obviously regret what I did . |
| 30 | Platt has had to wait in the wings because he is one of four foreign players fighting for the permitted three places . |