Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I first went into therapy because my doctor could n't explain my constant flu symptoms , and because I carried so much tension .
2 Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling
3 And because I had only one chair , we used to sit on the edge of the hard , narrow bed and draw up the table so that we could write on it together .
4 It took me about six months to even be able to hear what he 'd done ; I just could n't relate to it because I had so many preconceptions about what I thought it should be .
5 All the more ironic , too , because I woke up this morning feeling bloody marvellous after a really late and heavy night with the TV and the B & F. Was the phenomenon a new jet-lag deal , or the terminal mutiny of my whole bodybag ?
6 Because you lost so much body water in the heat , small boys brought tumblers of iced water at the end of every set .
7 She did n't look much like my idea of a prostitute either , but that was because she had n't any make-up on .
8 She was fascinated when he said he came from London — as far as she was concerned he might as well have come from the Moon , because she had as little likelihood of ever visiting either . ’
9 For a few moments she felt nineteen again , unsure and nervous , easily browbeaten because she had very little self-confidence .
10 We used to joke that we almost got nose bleeds when we stood up to our normal size because we spent so much time at floor level . ’
11 What I find though , erm , becau my , because we got so much stuff coming in for the shop anyway , like the lettuce or the fruit and veg , my parents don , you know , like most people go , yo your mother probably goes , how many , how often does she make a shopping trip ?
12 It would be too late so she said I really want to go because we went out last night you know
13 As Charles observes : ‘ If you want an insight into why Diana is not just some sort of spoilt toff it is because we had very contrasting lifestyles .
14 Certainly , David Flatman 's Bargain Bookshops , which did discount heavily on its bargain books during the Christmas season , ‘ because we had too much stock ’ , found that this helped to get rid of slow moving titles .
15 ‘ We started because we had so many enquiries about holiday courses , and it has been a tremendous success , ’ says Angela Payne , deputy director of the college .
16 But guitarist Paul Laventhol explained , prior to the gig : ‘ This is just a one-off , because we had so many people wanting us to get together for a show .
17 Then I had some from Mid Wales , and they were slow in staring , because they took about twelve months to settle in there .
18 He asked them why elephants did n't ride bicycles and explained that it was because they had n't any thumbs to ring the bell with .
19 He said they had to allow the Japanese to retain their arms because they had not enough men to collect them .
20 For most diurnal raptors it was difficult to obtain large enough samples , not through any shortage of pellet collections but because they contained so little bone .
21 She was already turning against the frills of earlier years , partly because they consumed so much factory time .
22 Whether because people really did not know how to interpret the revolution in England or because they wanted fairly complete independence and correctly suspected that William was going to exercise much the same overall powers as Charles and James had done , there was a revolt in New York that took some months to suppress and the colonists of Massachusetts at the beginning of the 1690s were no more reconciled to English rule than in the past .
23 Maybe , in fact , it 's because they hit so many balls off the hard , unyielding floors of a driving range .
24 This was at first very difficult because he knew as little English as I knew German .
25 He was cleared by the doctor to come back because he had basically renal failure .
26 He used to say he could drink quite a bit because he had very low blood pressure .
27 Because he had too much time , he 'd go to the club afternoon and night .
28 Because he had only two wins to his name that year , James decided to struggle on in F3 in 1971 while other drivers of his generation , such as Fittipaldi , Lauda and Pace , moved up .
29 Athelstan was an ‘ emperor ’ ( if he was ) because he ruled over several kingdoms ; the kings of León-Castile in the eleventh and twelfth centuries were sometimes called emperors for a slightly different reason , that they had aspirations to rule over other peoples .
30 The 90-pupil school in Reigate , Surrey , did not have the chance to assess him because he attended only three mornings in two weeks , she said .
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