Example sentences of "was because [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , something was expected and hoped of me there ; I was credited with a future , and I called some fondness into being , even though this was because they did not know what lay under my surface . |
| 2 | ‘ I honestly believe he did not know who it was because he did not do it . |
| 3 | I am afraid it was because he did not want to get entangled with the left on such an emotional issue . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps it was because he did not defer to her , flatter her , praise her beauty and her charm , admire her ready wit , as all the men she had known before had done , when what they really liked and deferred to was the knowledge of her father 's immense fortune and the certainty that she was sure to inherit a great part of it . |
| 5 | It was because he did not know . |
| 6 | Indeed , quite early on , I tried to work out in my mind what it was that made his personality ( though he did not like the word ) so compelling ; and I came to the conclusion that it was because he did not let me down in my own estimation of him . |
| 7 | Mahmoud did not say that this was because he did not trust them . |
| 8 | Since the point has now been taken that in my judgment in that case I did not support that particular passage from the Master of the Rolls ' judgment , I should state that the reason was because I did not find it necessary to do so in the particular circumstances of that case . |