Example sentences of "[noun pl] because [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He liked producing plays because he enjoyed creative work , and he was good as a leader and director .
2 The defendant garage was liable in damages because it took eight weeks to repair a motor vehicle when a normally competent garage would have taken about five weeks .
3 A COURT date has been fixed for a North-East mum claiming £200,000 damages because she had two babies after being sterilised .
4 And one was allowed ten minutes anyways because you had that type of job .
5 ‘ The wards were full and a very enthusiastic doctor said that , for the first time , he could use his training to help his patients because he had immediate access to vaccines and medication , ’ reports Robins .
6 Yeah well I was only in Gwindy for three years , then I went to Lewis Girls because I lived this end of I had to go to I loved Gwindy school .
7 Schoop was , however , found guilty on the same charges because she gave further details to Hans Kopp when he telephoned her later the same day at his wife 's suggestion .
8 But , and I have no concerns about sports ground sale , we 've regulated the numbers because they had some concerns about the and that , that itself has caused 's fellow supporters some problems , but we 've actually restricted the number of people who can use the sports ground .
9 In fact , the number of left-wing activists was never large but their impact was out of all proportion to their numbers because they found new methods of protest which caught the imagination of much larger numbers .
10 The two schools came to different conclusions because they asked different kinds of questions and had different views as to what counted as an explanation , and of how an explanation should be evaluated .
11 We called up all the record companies to see shows and they let us go and see all the shows because we had American accents and we were crazy .
12 But he 's slightly ahead of some of the others because he had three weeks with me last summer and I saw a lot of him . ’
13 But at the end of the road was the big white house where Edward Morris lived , a gracious house standing out from the others because it sported white railings which guarded the small , well-kept garden .
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