Example sentences of "because it [verb] [pron] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I even joined a group for divorced men but in the end I left because it fed my negativity instead of alleviating it . |
| 2 | Scottish merchants grumbled rather more about the new dispensation ; they were perfectly willing and able to be Europeans , but any outlet for trade would do , and there were complaints — in 1524 , for example — about the Auld Alliance with France , because it affected their opportunities not only in Flanders and Spain , but also in England . |
| 3 | There was no denying that the new corset had an impressive effect on her waist , but the dress disconcerted her — the first true evening dress she had ever had — because it left her shoulders quite bare as well as a considerable amount of — of , well , upper bosom , and all her arms . |
| 4 | ‘ I had an uncle who was dying of emphysema , ’ said Betty , ‘ and he used to implore people not to make him laugh because it took his breath away , and I could never understand what he could find to amuse him . ’ |
| 5 | Dorothea had told Florence Ames the story of Gaily in the church twice before , and neither of them was yet tired of it , Dorothea because it pleased her friend so to hear it , and Florence because it pleased her that the man had been somehow vindicated , turned out to be as good as she had thought , and a friend . |
| 6 | because it bite my finger so |
| 7 | It 's one of the reasons we 're doing this as well , because it gets our products out of the people directly . |
| 8 | Diana enjoyed herself enormously at the birthday party not least because it brought her sister down a peg or two . |
| 9 | It must have had the throat of a raven because it cuckooed its way up and down the valley for weeks on end . |
| 10 | Christianity is not true because it makes its claims more boldly or more loudly than anything else ( or belief would be taken over by bravado ) . |
| 11 | But it 's hard to talk because it makes your jaws so cold ! |
| 12 | Information after " those early dayes ' must lessen the deictic force of the utterance because it shifts our attention not to some presupposed referent seemingly outside the discourse ( what " early dayes ' ? ) but to something qualified within the text itself . |