Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was there a bit because I was hiding something from my mother . |
| 2 | Because I was writing it in R E |
| 3 | It 's odd because I was watching him on Football Focus yesterday , him and Bob Wilson , and I was trying to stay awake |
| 4 | ‘ I knew it could n't be the murder weapon , ’ he gravely told Wickham , ‘ because I was using it on Friday evening , hours after MacQuillan was found dead . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ That was only because you were tearing her to pieces . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , I was down there because they were questioning me about some old clothes . |
| 7 | because they were paying it over here until we had to pay |
| 8 | Addressing a special session of the Cortes ( parliament ) on Feb. 1 , Alfonso Guerra , who at no time condoned his brother 's alleged activities , acknowledged that Juan had used the government office but said that this was because he was helping him as deputy secretary of the PSOE , and he denied that private activities had been carried out in the office in his presence or with his knowledge . |
| 9 | My mum was really upset because he was accusing her of having an affair with another man . |
| 10 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 11 | we 're used to a lot of Shakespeare 's archaisms because he was studying them at A level and Shakespeare 's got so a special sort of band of them that he uses . |
| 12 | And you know she treasures it because it was given her by a grateful patient centuries ago . |