Example sentences of "because she [vb past] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Norma Scott , aged 23 , failed to report her mother 's death because she did not want the council to discover the squalid conditions at her home in Bilsmoor Avenue , Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 2 | She turned up when Laura was married in 1984 and she stood at the back of the church because she did not want to detract from the bride 's big day . |
| 3 | She recently turned down £1,500 for a day 's work because she did not want to miss school . |
| 4 | Cecilia always left coming to Tina 's until noon was past because she did not want to find her daughter in bed . |
| 5 | Quickly in and out of the sitting-room she slid three hundred pounds from out of her sleeping-bag , not wanting Philip to know how much was there — but only because she did not want anyone to know . |
| 6 | This was the case with a significant number of the girls talking here , for instance , Lorraine and Cathy , both of whose mothers had had children in their teens , and consequently had felt very sympathetic to what their daughters were going through , and Debbie 's mother , who had been more upset because she did not want her daughter to have the same sort of life as she had had . |
| 7 | Rosa in the chapel with her head bent over her hands , her legs stiff from kneeling , thought , We will go away together , somewhere different from here , to Africa , he said , he wanted to go there , and I will take care of him , we are like each other , we are both … and she hunted for the word because she did not want to use the word ‘ misfit ’ , and found ‘ changeling ’ . |
| 8 | A man hit her because she did not want to kiss him . |
| 9 | But even if he had , she would never have accepted him , because she did not love him . |
| 10 | I need not be jealous because she did not feel anything ! |
| 11 | She did not report it because she did not think she would be believed . |
| 12 | He drew her to him , so that her head was near his waist , in a stiff sort of way because she did not give in to the embrace . |
| 13 | Now she was only safe with Felipe because she did not fool herself one bit . |
| 14 | She had not tried hard enough because she did not care enough . |
| 15 | Esther sent a card to Alix , too , but Alix 's mother forwarded it accidentally-on-purpose to the wrong address possibly because she did not care for a rather elaborate allusion to Lacrima Christi in the text , nor for the brightly coloured shiny modern Madonna which the card portrayed . |
| 16 | One intended to go to Gateshead college full time for a year to do five GCSEs , but was unable to get a grant or income support because she did not qualify under the 22-hour rule and so reluctantly decided to attend part time instead . |
| 17 | She decided that she did not want to stay because she did not like the job . |
| 18 | No need to go to bed when Amabel went because she did not like to keep the servants sitting up and had had nightmares , ever since Gemma 's birth , about accidents with bedtime candles . |
| 19 | Earlier this year she persuaded a judge to let her stay with her boyfriend 's family because she did not get on with her father , who had recently been reconciled with his wife . |
| 20 | Now she was perplexed and afraid ; perplexed because she did not understand what had happened , and afraid of what it might mean if she did . |
| 21 | Lydia spoke carefully because she did not wish to give the impression that she was attempting to divert Betty from Beuno for nefarious reasons of her own . |
| 22 | It was a route she chose originally because she did not have enough capital to expand at the rate business demanded . |
| 23 | If they sent an ambulance she supposed she would get into it , but if they did not , then she would leave it because she did not have the energy to take herself to hospital . |
| 24 | Because she did not have any preparation for pregnancy or birth , her labour and delivery were quite difficult , complicated by her having curvature of the spine which was not realised at such short notice . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , an awareness that Japan was acutely vulnerable to threats of superior force , a resentment that Japan was considered inferior because she did not conform to Western standards and models , and a perception that other nations were prepared to act ‘ unfairly ’ to maximize the advantages that could be gained from any particular situation , made Japan determined to achieve equal status with the so-called Great Powers , or indeed , to surpass them . |
| 26 | She said nothing because she did not know what to say . |
| 27 | She could not have said that she found him dull , because she did not know it , and was conscious only of her own failure , and her misery at her own personal inadequacy quite drowned any sensation of boredom . |
| 28 | She was worried because she did not know if the rules of the house permitted her to go out walking with Finn and , besides , they were going to be late for dinner . |
| 29 | When I look back I realize just what a hard time Mother must have had because she did not enjoy what one might describe as robust health . |
| 30 | She received no support from the father for the child , and had to rely upon charity and from what is called ‘ the food bank ’ because she did not receive enough money from the welfare services to feed the child . |