Example sentences of "[pers pn] because [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Yek offend you because we do not think you are human . |
| 2 | I would tell Miss if I was you because I do not like to see |
| 3 | I do not write to you because you do not know the truth but because you do know that it and because no lie comes from that truth . |
| 4 | There are beds in warehouses , but many young people will not use them because they do not want to sleep next to someone who is mentally ill or loused up or alcoholic . |
| 5 | Many people stare good opportunities in the face but are unable to recognise them because they do not know enough about the field . |
| 6 | Jews despised and hated Gentiles : despised them because they did not belong to the elect ; and hated them because they lorded it over God 's chosen people . |
| 7 | Their newspapers provided odd bits of information , such as plutonium-poisoning maps that frightened readers rather than reassuring them because they did not know how to interpret them . |
| 8 | In a study by Taylor of library guides in London polytechnic libraries she found that the users often did not read them because they did not know they were there . |
| 9 | He said many people who were given council houses subsequently lost them because they did not know how to pay the rent and cope with bills . |
| 10 | He had come home on 30 March and , referring to Sutherland , had told her : ‘ That bastard had the cheek to lose the head with me because it did not work . |
| 11 | ‘ I do not know if you are so frank with me because you do not care how I react , or if it is honesty which prompts you . |
| 12 | ‘ Whatever they do will personally sadden me because I do not want to see my constituency chopped up , ’ he said . |
| 13 | That happens to be all right for me because I do not have to commute regularly but it could be a consideration . |
| 14 | Sam found himself completely cut off by his own side of the family , who considered he had married beneath him ; while John had a furious row with him because he did not think Sam good enough for Marie . |
| 15 | When Pat Arrowsmith gave out similar anti-war material to British troops , this time related to Northern Ireland , the justices before whom she appeared acquitted her because they did not think the publication to be ‘ insulting ’ . |
| 16 | A man hit her because she did not want to kiss him . |
| 17 | Will the Prime Minister promise the House that no senior citizen , sick or disabled person need die from hypothermia or any illnesses resulting from it because they do not have the money to heat their homes ? |
| 18 | It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we can not sell it because it does not belong to us . |
| 19 | There was no legislation to enforce the use of the safety lamp and many miners did not like it because it did not give out as much light as a candle . |
| 20 | She did not report it because she did not think she would be believed . |
| 21 | If they sent an ambulance she supposed she would get into it , but if they did not , then she would leave it because she did not have the energy to take herself to hospital . |