Example sentences of "because [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a daughter , Rosemary Worty , who looked up to me because I locked her up one night . |
| 2 | You know how they 're always shouting at me because I hit them too hard ? |
| 3 | At first I could not speak because I hated him so much . |
| 4 | I did it because I loved her too much . |
| 5 | It was my own fault , I suppose , for not telling you the whole truth , but I did it for your sake , because I loved you so much ! ’ |
| 6 | But erm did not pursue this er because I considered it too dangerous erm and any information you gained would not be conclusive . |
| 7 | Merely because I reminded him how unlikely he was to catch an heiress . ’ |
| 8 | From socialist Sunday School she moved to the Independent Labour party , which she left in 1920 because she found it insufficiently radical , and joined instead the recently formed Communist party of Great Britain . |
| 9 | No one had ever been able to knock her for six , and if this man affected her at all it was because she disliked him so much . |
| 10 | Mind you I did n't say that I , I , I , I was faithful to that one , but I could n't leave it because she needed me so much . |
| 11 | It was as if , because she bore them so much love , the actions of her children had the power to anaesthetize some of her most cherished convictions . |
| 12 | You must be especially proud today , because she liked you so much that despite all the difficulties of her first marriage , when she met you she decided to try it again . |
| 13 | Did you know that in London — because they had them there first , of course , some years ago — in London , the — well , beatniks really , are n't they ? |
| 14 | But is it because they left it too late or something then ? |
| 15 | Eventually they murdered him because they disliked him so much . |
| 16 | Mr Paddy Ashdown , the Liberal and Democratic leader , said the other community members had ‘ not found her irritating only because they found her totally irrelevant . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He gave me so much — quite apart from sexual fulfilment , which was part of it , and a very exciting and wonderful part because he taught me so much about sex . ’ |
| 18 | On the other hand an ambassador might refuse a present because he thought it insultingly small , because his mission had been unsuccessful , or because it seemed that the monarch he represented was about to go to war with the one whose court he was leaving . |
| 19 | Tolkien did know ‘ The Little Mermaid ’ , though he did not like it ( Letters , p. 311 ) , probably because he thought it too sentimental . |
| 20 | I was so downhearted and at such a low ebb because he made it painfully clear I did n't figure in that great club 's future , however much I loved the place . |
| 21 | He kept telling his gentle mother , both before and after the death ( in 1911 ) of his more authoritarian and rabbinical father ( the first Lord Swaythling ) , that he could not marry a Jewess because he found them so unattractive . |
| 22 | He valued advice because he found it almost impossible to make decisions . |
| 23 | Soon he was joined by other Europeans and henceforth it became a common sight to see one or other of the ladies or gentlemen of the " confident " party slapping away at the trough where once the dhobi had slapped ( for on the day after the Collector 's appearance the dhobi had vanished from the enclave , either because he considered it too dangerous to remain any longer now that the commander of the garrison had assumed the caste of dhobi or , more likely , because he resented the competition ) . |
| 24 | It used to be important because it made it more difficult to score with groin kicks , and it led to narrow stances with the leading foot turned inwards . |
| 25 | Preston half understood this because it was in him , too , but he rejected it , also , because it scared him too much . |