Example sentences of "because [pers pn] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Girl 's do n't ‘ do ’ the season any more ; it 's not like it was in the past , ’ said Sophia Burrell , 17 , who confessed to having missed most of the grooming session laid on by Lucie Clayton School of Modelling , ‘ because I had to do a law course ’ . |
| 2 | Erm , well my particular case was cut and dry , no medical miracles , as I say , could help me because I had lost a baby at six months during the labour and erm in order to save to my life I had a hysterectomy so there was no possibility of I V F , etcetera , etcetera . |
| 3 | I said I would , but I would n't see him for a couple of days because I had to take a train . |
| 4 | I moved there because I had to find a way to support myself . ’ |
| 5 | I came up to London last night by the last train because I had to face a Monday morning of solid Cabinet Committees . |
| 6 | Although her reports usually arrived by post , she brought them along in person on one occasion , because she had written a poem and wondered if it was worthy of publication . |
| 7 | She squeezed her eyes shut and lowered her head , hiding behind her curtain of auburn curls , battling with the tears , battling with the fact that it mattered because she had made a mistake again . |
| 8 | The defendant 's mother became suspicious because she had overheard a conversation about drugs . |
| 9 | She had to wait until her passport came back because she had cashed a traveller 's check to pay the bill . |
| 10 | Just because she had to leave a meeting suddenly did not mean she would relinquish her authority . |
| 11 | Another controversy was caused by Justice Stevenson effectively blaming the woman for getting raped because she had hitched a lift , giving the rapist only a suspended sentence , and summing up thus — ‘ It was , as rape goes , a pretty anaemic affair . |
| 12 | Then she would glance through the books she had bought , because she had to make a report on them . |
| 13 | They were so dependent on Britain for their trade and knew that they were accepted into the EC only because we had become a member that it was not a subject that exercised them overmuch . |
| 14 | There were several hundred birds and , because we had rounded a corner and surprised them , they panicked and went rushing off in a tight bunch , making an accurate count impossible . |
| 15 | Because we had to find a nurse to ask |
| 16 | Because they had taught a topic , it followed that the children had learned it . |
| 17 | ‘ It was a conscious decision to sign to Rough Trade because they had done a lot of good work in the past and right from day one they were our friend which is the most important thing . |
| 18 | Because they had to exercise a bit of faith . |
| 19 | He said that France was still shipping the missiles to Argentina because they had signed a contract . |
| 20 | The chorus of televisions was tuned to an American game show in which competing families were leaping up and down and screaming with apparent incontinence because they had won a trip to Disneyworld . |
| 21 | In a war-time article on Smollett he remarked that several writers had recently tried to ‘ revive the picaresque tradition ’ , instancing Waugh and Aldous Huxley — adding that the experiment had not been entirely happy , if only because they had betrayed a sense of strain in an effort to be shocking . |
| 22 | It was only because he had noticed a tree with a particular marking carved into the trunk , which he had himself incised , that he found the cave at all . |
| 23 | However , the trailer 's loss was not merely nominal because he had lost a sale . |
| 24 | I do n't remember what I recited , but I do remember being acutely embarrassed on another occasion when people were telling anecdotes , and I recounted one about a soldier being saved from a court martial because he had heard a clock strike thirteen at midnight , and this fact had saved him from being found guilty of sleeping on duty . |
| 25 | Most children would rather learn about Julius Caesar who was a real person with a long nose , killed by his own friends because he had become a dictator , than study the rise of Meroe or Axum which have little interest to an eleven-year-old . |
| 26 | Well , the city was n't a nice place to live because of all the silly laws the merchant had passed , and people started to leave it and go to other towns and other countries , and the merchant was spending so much time passing new laws and trying to make people obey the ones he 'd already passed that his own business started to fail , and eventually the city was almost deserted , and the merchant found that he owed people much more money than he had in the bank , and even though he sold his house and everything he owned he was still broke ; he was thrown out of his house and out of the city too , because he had become a beggar , and beggars were n't allowed in the city . |
| 27 | He was there simply and solely because he had attended a service when help forms were given out . |
| 28 | A little later , another customer complained about the employee because he had started a relationship with the customer 's wife . |
| 29 | The father of one family had no contact with their Irish Catholic grandparents because he had married a Protestant — although he did later inherit one of the grandfather 's pawnshops . |
| 30 | When he addressed the audience it was to remind them of ‘ one of my lovely wives ’ — a sly reference to the Fifties tour when he was hounded by the British press because he had married a 13-year-old . |