Example sentences of "because they [vb past] n't [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Cami knickers and french knickers became popular because they did n't take much material and were economic in coupons . |
| 3 | They were the better kind that managed that because they did n't have much money to buy them , so . |
| 4 | There was no anaesthetic because they did n't have any . |
| 5 | 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 ! ’ |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |