Example sentences of "[noun pl] because [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many electors undoubtedly withheld votes from some of its constituency candidates because they judged them sure to be defeated . |
| 2 | Haldane and Hogben 's Marxism made them critical of pedigree studies because it taught them that biological determinism should be supplemented by economic determinism . |
| 3 | ‘ You believed you were vampires because someone told you that too . ’ |
| 4 | All of these groups were rooted in social relationships , and were initiated by the children because they found it useful and enjoyable to work together . |
| 5 | She had refused to breast-feed her two children because she thought it disgusting , and my father in middle age had spent many wakeful nights , not cavorting in the pleasure grounds of a foreign city , but walking the floor feeding his children from a bottle while his new wife lay in a sedative-induced slumber . |
| 6 | We broke into the single , locked cupboard , and although we only found some new clothes and shoes with jewellery stuffed up inside the toes we assured each other that Aisha received money from her lover and liked leaving me in the house with the children because it made it easier to cheat on her husband . |