Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I then broke away because I saw two fighters above on the port side . |
| 2 | Mum was getting very panicky at 8.30 am because I had one sock on , a jumper round the wrong way and my shirt collar in a mess . |
| 3 | It was a problem to get the camera set up , because I had two classes , one before the other , I had to think about putting it up there and the set up . |
| 4 | She hates me because I am beautiful , and she is not ; because I had three husbands , and she never married . |
| 5 | Well I rang them up yesterday because I got two cheques left . |
| 6 | ‘ I felt nervous in the second half , because I knew one mistake could cost the game . |
| 7 | It was n't that expensive , either , my childhood , because I spent seven years of it with my mum 's sister in the States . |
| 8 | My name is Scruff and I am a very good dog but I 'm awfully expensive to keep because I needed two operations and I am still not fully recovered . |
| 9 | I remember you telling me that you were really proud of ‘ Rust Of Peace ’ because you played one rhythm track to Dave 's two on every track , and he is one of the best players of his ilk in he world . |
| 10 | Now the sides of the hold and the , the chains used go down , they did n't have wires they had chains go down and with a big ring on the top and then when you 'd the door out , knock the pin out and the door would drop down the mud and cos the ship would come up because she got two side tanks on er a tank each side to bring the ship out of the water . |
| 11 | She knew it was right to go to London University because she hoped one day to teach in Africa , and they had a special course in education in relation to tropical areas . |
| 12 | A COURT date has been fixed for a North-East mum claiming £200,000 damages because she had two babies after being sterilised . |
| 13 | all her sister 's energy and thinking her sister should , I mean she had a sister living with her and her sister had her own family with her , er a Mongol son , well I 'm afraid Margaret should n't of taken that attitude because she said ooh everywhere I go now there 's only me , now that 's being selfish , because she had three children and she should n't really of expected all her sisters to keep coming , they were living with her , you know |
| 14 | Peter added : ‘ It 's a shame because we had four teams ready to play this year — more than in any previous year . |
| 15 | but mind you we had much worse a problem that day because we had two sets of sniffer dogs who did n't like something and the first lot that were in and did n't like something that we 'd |
| 16 | I was really really happy because we had nine days off school I was very relieved . |
| 17 | and we do n't we needed her before because we had one typist , we do n't need that now , we c we can cover |
| 18 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 19 | Because they put 3 passes together 4 years ago does not make them a footballing side and they are only making friends now cos they are an easy touch . |
| 20 | The government put this here after ‘ Forty-six because they wanted one spot of safety in a wilderness of hatred , and because they thought they might as well get some good of this country once they 'd ruined it . |
| 21 | She said when you came and I rang to confirm it all she said you 're very lucky because he agreed thirteen pounds and we do n't do it for under fifteen pounds now . |
| 22 | But Coleridge , who knew him well , saw him as a happy man , because he had one aim in life : |
| 23 | And then do you see , he had taken most of the stuff from here , because he had four sawmills going do you see . |
| 24 | In Manchester , a deaf tramp who had roamed the country for 9 years was arrested as a spy because he had 55 Ordnance Survey maps in his possession , as well as two compasses and twenty crisp £1 notes . |
| 25 | He got to No 10 because he had 18 months earlier forced Neville Chamberlain to readmit him to the Cabinet . |
| 26 | But he 's slightly ahead of some of the others because he had three weeks with me last summer and I saw a lot of him . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
| 29 | The defendant garage was liable in damages because it took eight weeks to repair a motor vehicle when a normally competent garage would have taken about five weeks . |
| 30 | Provisions in the General Revenue Act of 1992 to make deductible against tax the current value of both tangible and intangible property donated to a non-profit organisation ( for example , a painting to a museum or shares to a hospital ) rather than their value at acquisition failed along with the whole bill when it was vetoed by President Bush last month because it contained forty tax increases . |