Example sentences of "because [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she had taken the trouble to go to school , lessons had often been called off because someone had vandalized some necessary piece of equipment . |
| 2 | it , it may have been because I had raised some concerns , concerning that particular er statement |
| 3 | My dad says I ca n't have sweets because I had to have some teeth out . |
| 4 | We watched you come home , we saw you go into the house and I was all for going right in after you and confronting Imogen , telling you the truth , because I had learned all about how she had dragged you from place to place , from house to house . |
| 5 | In that same year I was posted to South Shields on the south bank of the River Tyne and quickly became aware that I had an enormous burden to carry , simply because I had spent all of my previous service on ‘ the other side of the river ’ . |
| 6 | because I 'd said this , and I do n't know whether she was sussing me out |
| 7 | Money was a problem because I 'd spent all the dosh I 'd got for the car , and I needed my grant to pay off the overdraft I 'd built up . |
| 8 | She says : ‘ I felt immense relief when I found out I was pregnant , mainly because I 'd had this secret panic that I would n't be able to conceive . ’ |
| 9 | You were being frightened off because you 'd started asking questions , but I was to be killed because I 'd found some answers . ’ |
| 10 | would be T squared watch that by the way because I did say that 's D S by D T |
| 11 | ‘ I only came back because I wanted to take another look at you , to see if you 'd really changed . |
| 12 | We had split up because I wanted to spend more time with my mates . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The substitution was purely tactical because I wanted to get some height up front , ’ said Francis . |
| 14 | At that moment I wished she had n't , because she 'd got that tiny baby , and it was such an effort trying not to look . ’ |
| 15 | One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ? |
| 16 | She was quite good with delinquent adolescents partly because she seemed to have some insight into the impulse that makes the young and the violent turn on the weak and the defenceless … |
| 17 | I mean I was appalled because she kept making such a lot of mistakes . |
| 18 | It was as well that she did because she had forfeited most of her private life for the sake of her chosen career . |
| 19 | She was unconscious because she had taken some sleeping pills . |
| 20 | Because she had spent much of that day watching her mother supervise preparations for the traditional Gio ceremony observed by the family on each anniversary of her great-grandfather 's death , Lan knew the altar held all the favourite foods and beverages that the high-ranking courtier had enjoyed during his lifetime . |
| 21 | because she wanted to watch that programme |
| 22 | Emmie felt guilty because she did think that . |
| 23 | Lucy almost quailed beneath the onslaught of his wrath , but she persisted with her argument , mainly because she needed to have this point cleared in her own mind . |
| 24 | ‘ When we got that first call from the company , we thought they were going to sue us because we 'd used some samples on a record without clearing them , ’ laughs Geoff . |
| 25 | The listeners tuned in to the German wavelengths because they found Joyce amusing unintentionally or for his anecdotes , or else because they wished to hear both sides of the argument , or even because they did not trust their own authorities to tell them the whole truth . |
| 26 | I could n't have gone to a better place because they 'd got most parts of the country and one thing and another and I fitted their bill to a tee . |
| 27 | I feel it was an enormous privilege to have known them because they made work such fun . |
| 28 | Our teachers were the nearest guides because they had travelled these routes before us ( though of course we would n't teach ) . |
| 29 | Now although the only known brother of Æthelred named Edmund died in the early 970s , when Thietmar of Merseburg describes events in England in 1016 he tells how , after a battle in which Edmund was killed , the Danes fled from before London because they had heard that help was on the way from Edmund 's brother Æthelstan and the Britannis . |
| 30 | The districts were chosen because they had made some progress in care programming . |