Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it had n't occurred to me to do that because I never had kiddiwinks . |
| 2 | I was always very nervous when trying to help a very dear elderly aunt , because I never did things quite the ‘ right ’ way ! |
| 3 | When England 's centre-forward played like he did tonight you have to score two goals because I always thought Wright would get one . ’ |
| 4 | Because you never liked Dawson , did you ? ’ |
| 5 | Inexorably her thoughts turned to suicide , not because she wanted to die but because she desperately wanted help . |
| 6 | It was n't as awful as she 'd anticipated , partly because she greatly admired Raimondo 's talent , partly because the audience was so small , just the sheikh , his wives , a handful of retainers , and a couple of the sheikh 's Italian business associates brought along to translate — although one of the businessmen kept giving her glances that made her uncomfortable . |
| 7 | She understood his need for sport , because she too enjoyed exercise ; what she did not understand was his need to punish himself with such dangerous activities . |
| 8 | People with haemophilia were at risk of HIV infection before October 1985 , because they regularly received injections of contaminated blood products which help their blood to clot ( Factor VIII and cryoprecipitate ) . |
| 9 | Coetzee , describing the leagues as part of a Conservative effort to get to grips with mass politics and the ‘ new religion ’ of socialism , explains the timing of their appearance on the grounds that prior to the 1890s ‘ the Conservatives had no need of recourse to such pressure groups because they already possessed access to institutions adequate for the defence of their interests within the existing sociopolitical framework ’ . |
| 10 | Florida 's Supreme Court ruled the men had no right to privacy because they willingly took part in criminal activities . |
| 11 | The vast majority of employers , he said , hardly took GCSE results into account when taking on youngsters , because they often recruited weeks before results came out . |
| 12 | The other teachers in the department were prepared to support Rick in this , partly because of their personal and professional regard for him , but also because they too knew things had to change because of the GCSE . |
| 13 | These preparatory remarks were rather hesitant and repetitive ; I did not feel that extempore public speaking came easily to him ; but his readings were good , because they totally lacked affectation . |
| 14 | The other thing is , you know Noel came , they had some money , what do you want , actually I could ask them because he also said things . |
| 15 | In 1966 , Peter Bogdanovich , by then an assistant director and part-time scriptwriter for Corman , was given his chance to direct a thriller called Targets in which Boris Karloff was cast because he still owed Corman two days ' work . |
| 16 | Too young and protected to go to festivals , she grew her hair long like John Lennon and loved John Lennon after Yoko because he too wore glasses but did n't care . |
| 17 | He was able to checkmate the French evolutionists ' efforts to use the duck-billed platypus as a link between reptiles and mammals because he alone had access to a good supply of specimens . |
| 18 | Drysdale is nicknamed ‘ Milky ’ in the Hornets dressing room because he once resembled TV 's Milky Bar Kid . |
| 19 | No breakfast , because he never took breakfast . |
| 20 | Because he never meant bitchiness , because he was kind like all good people who 've been hurt , he never minded . |
| 21 | Was it because he had n't spotted it , or because he felt it would be dishonest to do so , or because he never expected criticism ? |
| 22 | He did not love her , because he never loved women . |
| 23 | He was the most eloquent and persuasive participant at meetings and was hard to defeat in scientific argument — not least because he often interpreted data more correctly than the actual presenter . |
| 24 | Iraq did not need a nuclear device , because it already had stocks of binary chemical weapons and , he went on , any country which threatened Iraq with an atomic bomb would be " annihilated " by the chemicals . |
| 25 | All outlined how fab System 10 was , and how it would help them , with PeopleSoft rooting for database cursors and the new Open Client because it wants to offer customers better performance , distributed data management , system administration tools and very large database support , and Bachman promising to support System 10 — well , because it just liked Sybase so much . |
| 26 | All outlined how fab System 10 was , and how it would help them , with PeopleSoft rooting for database cursors and the new Open Client because it wants to offer customers better performance , distributed data management , system administration tools and very large database support , and Bachman promising to support System 10 — well , because it just liked Sybase so much . |
| 27 | This law was widely criticised as racist because it effectively barred entry from the so-called new Commonwealth while allowing continued emigration from the predominantly white old Commonwealth countries . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the peace was an Athenian triumph because it effectively acknowledged Athens ' empire by sea . |
| 29 | General Aoun 's ‘ war of liberation ’ against Syria served the Christian cause because it effectively postponed discussion of the reforms which Muslims believe are essential if their numbers are to be fairly represented in a future government . |
| 30 | Whores would sometimes don men 's apparel , leading to Charles I to issue an order forbidding it , because it now made whores more difficult to detect , but this was generally ignored by the soldiery . |