Example sentences of "because they [vb past] not [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh well they said that 's because they 'd not got that section finished |
| 2 | Because they had n't done any management , Debbie felt Landlords were entitled only to the 10 per cent tenant-finding fee and therefore owed her £2,400 ( 3 months ' rent plus the deposit ) . |
| 3 | But Hindley and Catherine were angry because they had not received any presents , and refused to let the strange child share their room . |
| 4 | Cami knickers and french knickers became popular because they did n't take much material and were economic in coupons . |
| 5 | They were the better kind that managed that because they did n't have much money to buy them , so . |
| 6 | There was no anaesthetic because they did n't have any . |
| 7 | Rock was rebelling against my parents , but jazz was rebelling against my parents as well as all my peers , because they did n't have any idea what I was talking about ! ’ |
| 8 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 9 | There were no games , partly because they did n't know any , partly because all five were united , in this if in nothing else , in the belief that dice , cards , charades , were a frivolous waste of time . |
| 10 | The Security Council always tut-tutted when anybody suggested that it was trying to starve anybody to death , but if sanctions were going to be effective then people would die because they did not get enough to eat . |
| 11 | John 's firm having been established for nearly forty years by this time , the rival Lawrence Girls were definitely more earthy in character , with not a snob amongst them possibly because they did not have such a long tradition . |
| 12 | Relationship between trade and between members of state , strictly competition and I said I 'd be the one erm relative case , just to demonstrate the course , Lord , erm I 've usefully used the time this morning to do a , a brief aden am moire of the point , the relevant photographs and the , just in case , if I can just hand that out ena enable me to , to speed through the admission , my Lord if I can just er take the through it and apart , my Lord paragraph five is triggered by an agreement which effects trade between members of states , er in windsurfing the court considered an argument that the causes and the contested agreement which had been struck down by the commission did not forward then article eighty five because they did not have that trade between members of states , the court replied , that argument must be rejected , article eighty five does not require that each and individual cause in the agreement should be capable of affecting into community trade , community law or competition applies to agreements between undertakings which may effect member of states , only if the agreement as a whole is capable of effecting trade is it necessary to exam which other clauses of the agreement which havers there object , let's just say or , or effect the restriction of competition . |
| 13 | The collapse of the coup was blamed by RAM on strong US support for Aquino , as well as their own failure to attract visible popular support , chiefly because they did not convince enough people that they had the experience to run the country . |