Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was n't because I saw some guy and said , ‘ Hey , he gets a lot of girls , ’ or I saw some guy and said , ‘ Man , I want to be that guy , ’ because there 's no-one on earth I want to be . |
| 2 | Sadly much of the animosity generated about Cochrane and Bennett originated from within No 5 Group and a great deal I was able to counter before it reached tap-room levels , I never felt I was running with the fox because I had great feeling and admiration for both these Olympian " gores , in fact , Cochrane invited me to move to No 5 Group with him when he left No 3 Group , but I declined as I was in mid-tour . |
| 3 | My name is Scruff and I am a very good dog but I 'm awfully expensive to keep because I needed two operations and I am still not fully recovered . |
| 4 | Sometimes colleagues may read my signals wrongly ; they think that , because I wear short skirts and I 'm not afraid to let the conversation get personal , I must be looking for an affair . |
| 5 | It is not a question of being frightened of the dark ( although it can be pretty spooky on an out-of-the-way water ) , it is because I enjoy good company and a long night becomes more enjoyable with someone there to chat with ; to share the pleasure of catching big fish , or the lesser pleasure of blanking . |
| 6 | The Bishop , reading Peter 's thoughts , would have liked to have put his arms around him , would have liked to have said , I can not make you Archdeacon because you have insufficient judgement and experience , but you are a good priest , a conscientious priest , and I am wretched to disappoint you . |
| 7 | Because she spent endless time and money searching for her father , for the man on her birth certificate who did n't exist ! |
| 8 | Hers was also a significant name because she had black hair and her disappearance was reported on May 17th . |
| 9 | all her sister 's energy and thinking her sister should , I mean she had a sister living with her and her sister had her own family with her , er a Mongol son , well I 'm afraid Margaret should n't of taken that attitude because she said ooh everywhere I go now there 's only me , now that 's being selfish , because she had three children and she should n't really of expected all her sisters to keep coming , they were living with her , you know |
| 10 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 11 | He also said that he found his responsibilities ‘ a very great strain ’ , because his aunt was such a difficult , domineering person , and he would like to see her in a Home — partly because she needed more care and more company . |
| 12 | and you know it 's a case of whether you believe that we 're in favour because we got this money and therefore we 're likely to get |
| 13 | We 'd been in the same form for two terms without really speaking because we had separate friends and in any case at St Edward 's you were seated according to your exam results at the end of the previous term , so it was n't likely we 'd be close . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Anyway , one day I had tickets to see Mike Oldfield and I was really upset because we had these gigs and so I had to sell them . |
| 16 | I 'm not forcing them to be anything because we have other bands and artists who we can force and push to success . |
| 17 | These writers criticized the industry for being a second-rate imitation of Hollywood , but that was because they despised American cinema and the ‘ box-office bogey ’ , not because they appreciated the economic gap between the two industries . |
| 18 | All voiceless sounds are fortis because they require more air and more energy in order to create the same turbulence in the air and therefore the same amount of volume as voiced sounds . |
| 19 | The differences suggest that those in the non-manual occupational groups were more likely to choose early retirement than skilled manual workers , presumably because they had greater resources and hence more freedom of choice . |
| 20 | For example , in North Wales , Derbyshire and the main part-time farming areas ( North Yorkshire , Wester Ross and Orkney ) , the number who were confident in all stock tasks was fairly high , no doubt because they had little option but to tackle stock work . |
| 21 | Colin Hughes and Patrick Wintour , who wrote Labour Rebuilt , describe his communications strategy in terms of the Labour Party : ‘ Mandelson and Gould succeeded , not because they exploited slick advertising and media management more effectively than the Conservatives , but because they forged themselves an approach to political strategy which has never before been seen — certainly in the Labour Party , and arguably , ever in British politics . |
| 22 | Rows with in-laws are distressing because they cause divided loyalties and may indicate a battle between families to prove which is the most important . |
| 23 | The deer were to be removed , because they ate young trees and crops . |
| 24 | It is for this reason that the Anonymous Fellowships are ; o successful because they bring specific understanding and hope from previous sufferers who are now in recovery . |
| 25 | And 2,000,000 refugees in all the former Yugoslav republics are at risk because they lack proper food and shelter . |
| 26 | Their accounts look very different from the nationalized industries because they adopt budgetary accounting and also because they adopt fund accounting . |
| 27 | Staff would begin to cluster in groups , perhaps because they needed common equipment and facilities , perhaps because they discovered common ground in what they taught . |
| 28 | Some hemiplegic patients are incontinent , either because they have poor sensation and can not feel when the bladder or bowel needs to be emptied , or because they do not pay attention and so forget to go to the toilet , or ask to be taken . |
| 29 | The proportion of the former who are not interested in regular working , because they have other interests or other commitments , is relatively high , although it is influenced by the level of unemployment overall as well as in the local labour market . |
| 30 | Also , they are mainly here because they have small children and no earnings of their own . |