Example sentences of "because [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Because I saw her predicted grade card |
| 3 | ‘ Because I made it crystal-clear , right from the start , that I did n't want you here , complicating my life . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I was a bit young to go there because I found it difficult to get to know people , ’ he says . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was because I found it hard to define his place on the island . |
| 9 | And you , Opal , you will exult in it because you made it possible . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | ’ But he did n't , of course ; because she got it wrong . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Felipe had definitely stopped being amused and Ana had appeared merely because she considered it polite . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Many electors undoubtedly withheld votes from some of its constituency candidates because they judged them sure to be defeated . |
| 18 | The chimes of bells which stood in every district of the city were being rung as they sat down — both because the ringers had been amply bribed and because they thought it politic to honour Artai and his chief supporter — and a small orchestra of trumpets and tambours had been hired by a steward and was accommodated in the yard , so that Burun 's speech of welcome to his guests , as well as their affable replies , were conducted with much opening and shutting of mouths and a deal of dumb show . |
| 19 | Because they paid us extra because nobody else worked with us , it was only me and you and my mother . |
| 20 | The covens were restricted to thirteen , possibly because they considered it unlucky for the enemy Christian church due to the number at the Last Supper . |
| 21 | All of these groups were rooted in social relationships , and were initiated by the children because they found it useful and enjoyable to work together . |
| 22 | it will need for him to phone the firm then because he got me direct |
| 23 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
| 24 | For some reason , Belgion had resented this observation , not because he thought it untrue but because he claimed to have said it first . |
| 25 | I do n't think it was just because he made it back-to-back wins , either . |
| 26 | He had been a little surprised that Miriam should surrender to this sort of jealousy , but perhaps he was not altogether displeased , because he found it feminine … in an attractive woman even faults and weaknesses are endearing . |
| 27 | He was n't an official nominee of this parish council , but he er was a person who attended the meetings and , and in Stuart 's , with Stuart 's resignation from this , because he found it difficult to get to , because of commitments , erm it 's suggested that the parish council might be able to identify one of its number in order to be able to at least continue some erm represent private representation on the Liaison Committee . |
| 28 | When the Mary arrived off Mogadishu , the master refused to enter the port because he considered it unsafe on account of the fighting that was going on there . |
| 29 | Everything seemed to be taken care of and everybody was on a real high because it left you free to do what you wanted to do without worrying about paying this week 's rent or buying a pair of shoes , or whether a valve in the amplifier had gone and you had to replace it . |
| 30 | Delight because it brought her close to him when the cottage was empty — despair because his talent was in his hands rather than in his composing ability . |