Example sentences of "because [pers pn] were [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is that why you did n't tell me , because you were thinking of me , of her … ’ |
| 2 | Yeah and and the other thing which I , actually I 've been laughing at here is because you were laughing at yourself when you were asking the questions . |
| 3 | I , I think erm I think it may have been that er you , they assumed you 're lacking confidence because you were laughing at yourself so much when you were asking the questions . |
| 4 | ‘ I know you 're a young girl because you were dancing like a young girl . |
| 5 | ‘ But I bring that up because you were asking about how you get back into it after that length of time . |
| 6 | What was this because you were standing in water a lot ? |
| 7 | ‘ We said that if David was out , then we were all out and would n't play against Bournemouth because we were sticking with the players still owed money . |
| 8 | There seemed to be a great urgency to get married , to live in London and start a family because we were trying to be the same as everyone else . |
| 9 | It was used in anger because we were living near Sevenoaks when the V one was over the doodlebugs and er they positioned er one of these barrage balloons just near our house you see . |
| 10 | Of course , that sort of thing has a really limited audience and , because we were living in Hawaii , there was nobody there to watch us anyway , so we were coming up with the most insane stuff we could do , basically just to please ourselves ! |
| 11 | We did n't sit down thinking deeply about what we had been doing or anything like that , largely because we were teaching at the same time . |
| 12 | Well in the last 2 days Firmin and Antonio have been getting more and more hostile ( which is n't hard to do given how Charlie and Matt are currently feeling about one another ) and you could really sense the Indians getting involved , following it all from their part of the raft as if their lives depended on it — which in a way they did I suppose because we were arguing about whether they had the right to be baptised and have their souls saved or not . |
| 13 | Erm , what I 'm , I 've just arranged somebody to redo our speaker syste our original system with tannoys , we blew our tannoys speakers , and I did n't bother getting them replaced because we were going for a rock crowd so we just used Bernie and Nigel |
| 14 | Because we were standing outside the Japanese restaurant , I told Chase to go in and order some take-aways for about two o'clock while Martin and I would scout either end of the Place for Bunny 's truck . |
| 15 | b my wife and I was only discussing it er day before yesterday I think it was , we were talking about it because we were talking about this sort of thing . |
| 16 | He simply said something about it 's being his land and Piers told him we had made a mistake and we all rode off as hard as we could because we were bursting with laughter — ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It had been bloody hard because we were sleeping with each other from very early on but we had always agreed not to get physical because I knew we should n't , ’ he said . |
| 18 | And because we were sitting in a bar in central Africa , and there was nowhere else they could go to buy a drink , they had no choice but to sit and listen . |
| 19 | I went , and then I went well he ca n't have looked around for us too well because we were walking by the side of the road . |
| 20 | It worked and I think it was honest because we were filming in hot places . |
| 21 | Here we had a man who we knew had serious problems that constituted a danger to himself and others , and we sat back , simply because we were waiting for him to admit he had a problem . ’ |
| 22 | Many children heard the news before their parents because they were listening to schools programmes on the wireless . |
| 23 | ‘ How 's that ? ’ the girl asked , but then the phone rang and there was no time to worry because they were swinging into action with the RTA , two victims of a car smash who came on a blue light with sirens wailing . |
| 24 | Rain comforted herself that however disruptive they were , they would not be in there long because they were dealing with everything else with extraordinary speed . |
| 25 | The older ones were pleased because they would get a lot of money , the younger ones were upset because they were thinking about the future . |
| 26 | We were just walking off the 18th — with yet another par , and yet another good one but without a birdie to the end — when the crowd started fidgeting because they were looking at the scoreboard . |
| 27 | This was important , because a national study in 1965 showed that one-fifth of women who were working part-time did so because they were caring for a sick or elderly person . |
| 28 | They were placed in mental handicap hospitals because they were suffering from a temporary mental illness , or because of ‘ moral incompetence ’ and never released . |
| 29 | I joined one band because they were playing at the Marquee , and at that gig I was spotted by Girlschool , who were looking for a guitarist . |
| 30 | The position of Rathbone and the NUSEC was potentially more radical than pre-War feminists because they were grappling with two new issues , first , the need to improve women 's economic position in the family ( earlier feminists had suggested celibacy as the only alternative to ‘ marriage as a trade ’ ) , and second , the necessity to get away from defining equality for women on men 's terms . |