Example sentences of "[pers pn] because [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environment officials — who argue that the convention should be theirs because it concerns conservation rather than aid — now appear to have won their case . |
| 2 | And here , here am I , and then I 'll say you know of course I you know I 'm indebted to you because I realize that , you know , Anna-Marie is quite prepared to go out with other men if she wants |
| 3 | It 's the safest way of acting — no one can argue with you because you know all the answers . ’ |
| 4 | If they said to us we 're not going to insure you because you have black people staying people staying it would be illegal but because it 's poor people they can dictate to us . |
| 5 | Although it could have been a genuine geographical variation , the fear was that staff were failing to record them because they thought this might lead to unresolvable problems which would jeopardise planning . |
| 6 | Now , normally in this programme when we talk about womens ' magazines , people are inveighing against them because they carry various advertisements that they find offensive or exploitative , but are women 's magazines actually erm performing quite a useful job by filling in the gaps that that schools and parents are are failing to address ? |
| 7 | We leased it to them because we need that area . |
| 8 | It 's not very nice to wear them because you get that is the end product . |
| 9 | ‘ My position was one of timid and humble listener … ’ said the Spanish painter Remedios Varo , speaking for many of her Surrealist sisters , ‘ I was together with them because I felt certain affinity ’ . |
| 10 | If I see a person is charged and sentenced because of drugs , I do n't really like them because I think that 's why there is more crime in this country . |
| 11 | I said , ‘ Cynthia would n't let him ’ , which was silly of me because it aroused several emotions in my mother . |
| 12 | Well I would expect that the Prime Minister would , I think this nonsense that is behind all this is that because I am talking to Gerry Adams , they do n't want to be seen to be talking to me because it looks this fingerprint argument |
| 13 | Doctor 's obviously a more frugal character than me because he had this room and the radiator was turned off . |
| 14 | Well I , this this is something that 's always staggered me because he worked seven days a week , down the mine feeding horses you see , had to be fed , and watered seven days a week . |
| 15 | Then why were you so mad with me because I made those arrangements ? ’ |
| 16 | In other respects , however , the summer school was very useful for me because I met many of the leading people in the field . |
| 17 | A number of women have told me they voted for him because they felt sorry for him , because he was a trier , a bit of an underdog , because he was a hubby figure , the man they would most like to buy a pullover for , a man who knows where his slippers are . |
| 18 | At times this was very difficult for him because he had chronic bronchitis and therefore coughed a great deal . |
| 19 | I 'd also got an injunction against him because he became violent , and that was all right for a bit . |
| 20 | At parties he does not join in and he gets very upset when you try to do anything with him because he gets frustrated . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Liza Jane ’ and ‘ Pity the Fool ’ were released at the time we joined him because he brought this record along and said , ‘ What do you think of this ? ’ |
| 22 | It was also important for him because he believed that matriliny , the reckoning of group membership in terms of who one 's mother was , was associated with a high status for women . |
| 23 | ‘ I sympathise with him because he missed most of pre-season training with an ankle ligament injury . |
| 24 | I can smell the faggy smell even when he has brushed his teeth a couple of time and rinsed with mouthwash ’ ) and drinking ( ‘ If my husband has been drinking I do n't like to kiss him because he has stale breath ’ ) . |
| 25 | He had been frightened somewhere in a tight locked-up place inside him because it seemed impossible that they would land safely , and the final swaying descent had made him ill . |
| 26 | As she said when talking about their courtship , ‘ I wanted to marry him because I felt good with him . |
| 27 | Also I did n't want to get too close to him because I felt some of his rotten luck might rub off on me . |
| 28 | Perhaps she 'd intrigued him because she had such lovely eyes , unusually blue against the dark hair , and clear and direct like those of Sarah Morey . |
| 29 | Had anyone ever taken the mickey out of her because she looked untidy ? |
| 30 | And then , on top of such bad news , came another message , a letter from Phoebe saying she could not after all repay Wilson 's kindness by standing in for her because she had this very day been ordered back to England and arrangements she had no part in had been made . |