Example sentences of "because it [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | because it bite my finger so |
| 5 | Diana enjoyed herself enormously at the birthday party not least because it brought her sister down a peg or two . |
| 6 | It must have had the throat of a raven because it cuckooed its way up and down the valley for weeks on end . |
| 7 | 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 . |