Example sentences of "because [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You believed you were vampires because someone told you that too . ’ |
| 2 | They liked me because I told them dirty jokes , made good after-dinner speeches , did a reasonable job for them in terms of links with government and that kind of thing , and had a bit of class . |
| 3 | Because I saw her predicted grade card |
| 4 | I admit that I prefer the longer film , but that may be because I saw it first . |
| 5 | Cos I , I want to send him into the shed because I had him first |
| 6 | Because I had it all when we had breakfast . |
| 7 | ‘ Because I made it crystal-clear , right from the start , that I did n't want you here , complicating my life . |
| 8 | P. Oh , my worst day — get up , eat food , watch TV , sit in 'cause I 've got no money because I spent it all on Sunday , then off to work till 2am to earn more skating money . |
| 9 | Because I felt them last night and felt ooh this sticky anyway oops |
| 10 | He recalled : ‘ I certainly gave two very bad TV interviews that gave the impression that things were all wrong , all uptight , but that was because I felt it necessary to defend the players . ’ |
| 11 | And I know I , one , it , because I felt it one day . |
| 12 | I was happy that he was being made to go to the hospital to have his ankle set in plaster , and because I found him very simpatico I was determined to go and see him there . |
| 13 | ‘ I was a bit young to go there because I found it difficult to get to know people , ’ he says . |
| 14 | I left the team because the low pay would not cover the cost of my share in a mortgage to buy my own flat , and because I found it difficult to reconcile the separate roles of paid worker and friend , when Helen and Elizabeth recognised no such distinction . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was because I found it hard to define his place on the island . |
| 16 | because I bought them all before t I started |
| 17 | and when we were having this argument on Wednesday he said I said we what what was your reason then for not paying me for that when I was genuinely sick and he said er oh he said because I gave you such a good bonus last week , I said what was that then , he said erm twenty five pounds , I said no you did n't ! |
| 18 | And you , Opal , you will exult in it because you made it possible . |
| 19 | Well they 're it 's probably because you packed them all in there too tight . |
| 20 | ‘ Only because you steered it that way , ’ Belinda said crossly . |
| 21 | Because you gave me ten milligrams and t the five 's not very strong . |
| 22 | Today , it 's known as Lolly 's Lagoon because she saw it first . |
| 23 | Grace had tried to persuade John long before to go to ballet classes , because she thought him small for his age and hoped the exercise might encourage growth , but he refused , saying ‘ Oh no , mummy , the boys will call me a sissy . ’ |
| 24 | She had refused to breast-feed her two children because she thought it disgusting , and my father in middle age had spent many wakeful nights , not cavorting in the pleasure grounds of a foreign city , but walking the floor feeding his children from a bottle while his new wife lay in a sedative-induced slumber . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's never been a great woman composer , ’ said my mother with an air of triumph , not because she delighted in this deficiency of her sex , but because she thought it percipient to have noticed . |
| 26 | ’ But he did n't , of course ; because she got it wrong . |
| 27 | She had given in because she found him irresistible and , looking at his strong brown back in the first grey light of dawn , she still found him so . |
| 28 | Felipe had definitely stopped being amused and Ana had appeared merely because she considered it polite . |
| 29 | She , she did n't mind because she 's winking and I thought ah is n't that nice of her , it is really because she organised it all and she do n't know me so that was very kind of her did n't you think so Bet ? |
| 30 | Now , in addition to that , and I do n't know if this is the source of the confusion , we 've also made provision in the ninety four five budget for another er camera site operation , except that it 's a lower figure because that does n't actually include the camera because we made it clear that as a result of the decision last time here we did n't want to create a , a permanent precedent that this committee always picked up the bill for the camera . |