Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [adv] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just temper , Daddy , darling , ’ she muttered under her breath , her anger threatening to bubble to the surface , only failing to do so because of the sickening throb in her forehead . |
| 2 | They do not want to operate independently because they are unable to do so . ’ |
| 3 | They would wait five miles ahead , not daring to go further because of my leg . |
| 4 | We may tend to assume that other companies and cultures operate with the same sorts of motivations and criteria of success as we do , despite the fact that Japanese companies , for instance , turn in a very low rate of profit compared to those in the United Kingdom , and indeed do not need to do so because of the low interest charges and ready availability of capital in their country . |
| 5 | His father told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life , but he was finally persuaded to do so because it was pointed out to him that if the British Army did not send back the Cossacks , the Soviets would not send back British POWs . |
| 6 | ‘ This is one of the biggest road construction contracts ever undertaken in Northern Ireland and we have not had to go overseas because we have the local skills to do it . ’ |
| 7 | But we are not going to condemn merely because we do n't understand . |
| 8 | She said she 'd given it a lot of thought and decided she 'd just got carried away because it was all such fun . |
| 9 | I knew Mum would not have done so because they did n't get on , although I never found out why . |
| 10 | But I might not wish to do so because I might believe it to be wrong to buy an Italian car for one reason or another . |
| 11 | If an asylum claim that is not justified under the United Nations convention is to be the means of obtaining settlement in the United Kingdom , we need at the very least to explain , particularly to the minority communities legitimately settled here , why their friends and relatives who would like to come and join them are not allowed to do so because they told the truth when they made their applications , whereas others who are prepared to make an unfounded asylum claim can remain indefinitely . |
| 12 | As children , we were not allowed to go there because of the risk of attack from a tiger or leopard , but sometimes , I would follow a group of hunters to trap sambar , muntjac or wild boar . |
| 13 | Many a teenager has been drawn into behaviour he would rather have avoided simply because he finds himself unable to stand up to his peers or to be the one who is ‘ different ’ . |
| 14 | This will certainly be the case if the people concerned at the local level take this view , failing to grasp the strategic role that they have always claimed but often failed to deliver convincingly because of time spent on day-to-day operational matters . |
| 15 | I know when we 've er sold the house , when our children all went and left us , the house was for three bedrooms , right , and I , I said to my husband I do n't want to stay here because they built the school outside behind our er , erm back yard , and every , all the rubbish that kids throw threw over and I said to him I do n't want to stay now kids , kids gone , children gone leave , left home , got married and went to off , I said I do n't want to live here , I do n't want to retire to , to stay at home and listen to the kids at school all day long and have the rubbish thrown over the hedge |
| 16 | ‘ She would n't have gone just because H.B. told her off . |
| 17 | ‘ — that it would n't have counted anyway because he would not have been able to use the words with a true heart . ’ |
| 18 | Anyone looking for refinement and smoothness would be well advised to look elsewhere because these cars are mechanically harsh and lumpy with a mighty thirst when extended . |
| 19 | But what you do as a removal man is you get hold of the cord that you 've pulled away from the side of the frame , put a knot in it , a loose knot , then leave go gently because again if you do n't leave go gently if it 's an old cord when it gets to the reaches the knot it 'll snap and you 'll still lose the weight inside . |
| 20 | Certain parts of me were defined by the grass that I dented with my feet or the cushion that I hollowed with my back and had an identity both in time and space ; but the breasts and cunt he briefly fondled existed only because touched at his will and through his perception of them . |
| 21 | But that 's something Labour and the Liberal Democrats — who arguably need advertising more because so many of the popular papers support the Conservatives — ca n't afford to do . |
| 22 | Some people can never dare to move closer because of the inevitable withdrawal that must follow ; the prospect feels too chilly by contrast . |