Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They liked me because I told them dirty jokes , made good after-dinner speeches , did a reasonable job for them in terms of links with government and that kind of thing , and had a bit of class . |
2 | Because I saw her predicted grade card |
3 | Because I felt them last night and felt ooh this sticky anyway oops |
4 | And I know I , one , it , because I felt it one day . |
5 | I was happy that he was being made to go to the hospital to have his ankle set in plaster , and because I found him very simpatico I was determined to go and see him there . |
6 | ‘ Only because you perceive it that way . |
7 | I 'm not going to get angry because you call me stupid names . |
8 | ‘ Only because you steered it that way , ’ Belinda said crossly . |
9 | Because you gave me ten milligrams and t the five 's not very strong . |
10 | ‘ They only stand for it because we bring them hard currency , ’ Jim explained , as he accelerated away . |
11 | Thus , by selecting the right ‘ task ’ , we have constrained a system we know , because we designed it that way , to be organized redundantly to give a double dissociation . |
12 | But that 's because they have them twenty-four hours a day . |
13 | Chris : Because they give you different choices and you can sit with your friends and it 's better … in the winter it 's better than walking home . |
14 | He found that Turner by 1833 was painting trees unknown to any botanist ; probably he painted them because he saw them that way ; and indeed with the help of a lens the lecturer could turn a picture of a common tree into a Turner tree for the audience to see for themselves . |
15 | I do n't think it was just because he made it back-to-back wins , either . |
16 | He must have liked the sound it made because he gave it another couple for luck ; my courage rising , too , I gave it two more . |
17 | In her analyses of Freud 's conception of female sexuality , she demonstrates that Freud 's view of women as lack or as absence forces them into the discursive position of the hysteric because it denies them autonomous identity and obliges them to mimic the voice of the dominant male if they wish to be heard at all ( 1974:66–71 ) . |
18 | Madam , Nearly two million of us belong to the National Trust because we believe in what it stands for , and because it offers us superb value for our annual subscription . |
19 | Many people feared involvement in popular education because it made them immediate targets of the Contras . ’ |
20 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
21 | And that 's , I think , important because it gives us some concept of how far we would have to go to get there , as it were , apart from seeing it . |
22 | I think it 's probably better for us to stay away from all the f—ing scenes in Sydney because it gives us original ideas on life . ’ |
23 | Because it brings me some comfort . ’ |
24 | Hank came in and did a lot of recordings , which I was glad of because it gave me some relief . |