Example sentences of "[vb past] because [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another gave me a slice of dark brown bread with a piece of sausage on the top which I ate because I did not want to hurt his feelings . |
| 2 | The idea was considered but rejected because it did not meet the Government 's timetable . |
| 3 | In relation to a repetition test , he argues that the negro children who failed because they did not repeat the teacher 's utterance in the same form were really being failed for a different attitude to surface detail . |
| 4 | ‘ We failed because we did not raise people 's hopes sufficiently . |
| 5 | First , it failed because it did not benefit the poor as much as it did the middle classes . |
| 6 | It concerned a contract to provide a made-to-measure set of teeth and it arose because they did not fit . |
| 7 | William and Justine died because you did not love me . |
| 8 | ‘ But the rest of our family insisted because we did not want him to be endangered . |
| 9 | No need to go to bed when Amabel went because she did not like to keep the servants sitting up and had had nightmares , ever since Gemma 's birth , about accidents with bedtime candles . |