Example sentences of "because [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She deserved it , she 'd been tormenting me for weeks , calling me Comic Stripper because I told better jokes than she did . |
| 2 | I then broke away because I saw two fighters above on the port side . |
| 3 | If you 're here because I said certain things about you after the race , you can sod off back south right now . ’ |
| 4 | And that 's only because I had good teachers — I do n't think that I have any special superhuman gift for it . ’ |
| 5 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's not because I had Christian parents , it 's not because I 'd some advantage over you , or you had some advantage over me , it is all of God 's graciousness , it is all of God 's giving ! |
| 8 | She hates me because I am beautiful , and she is not ; because I had three husbands , and she never married . |
| 9 | Well I rang them up yesterday because I got two cheques left . |
| 10 | Then why were you so mad with me because I made those arrangements ? ’ |
| 11 | It was n't that expensive , either , my childhood , because I spent seven years of it with my mum 's sister in the States . |
| 12 | I linked both books to the theme of ‘ Outsiders ’ , not because of the title but because I felt both books told the story of two lives lived on the edge of society . |
| 13 | Because I found historical films about men on horseback so moving I was pleased when my then wife , Jenni , set to writing a book about the wild west . |
| 14 | This , he explains , was ‘ partly because I used four-letter words in front of the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But it was because I needed other women , and I needed to be truthful about it . |
| 17 | I enrolled under my maiden name , because I wanted other students to know me as a person first , as opposed to a professor 's wife . |
| 18 | I did n't employ you on that business because you had other duties . |
| 19 | erm I think it made things a lot cheaper , because you had larger firms able , able to buy in bulk , and also the beginnings of the ready-made market . |
| 20 | it 's easier because you missed some booklets out , . |
| 21 | Because she lacked academic qualifications , Miss Green never conducted a Tutorial Class , but she revelled in her Terminal and , less frequently , One-Year courses . |
| 22 | She in her turn had discovered a man who might be charismatic in public , but privately was one who was also ruthless , single-minded , and a loner , an attitude that disconcerted her , because she recognised similar traits in herself . |
| 23 | Katherine liked to believe that she was n't vindictive , but she did have certain rules , certain standards , both for her house and her business , and one of the reasons she had been so successful both in Dublin and now in London , was because she applied those rules rigorously . |
| 24 | Because she took electric baths |
| 25 | Conversation was difficult because she walked several yards behind Joe , and always crossed the street at least two cars ' lengths away . |
| 26 | A COURT date has been fixed for a North-East mum claiming £200,000 damages because she had two babies after being sterilised . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | Her experiment was successful because she exacted high standards of cleanliness and co-operation ; but it also involved her exceptional degree of commitment , and although her success was often cited and sometimes emulated , it could no more serve as a general prescription than the 5 per cent philanthropy of Peabody and others . |
| 29 | Britain encouraged the growth of Zionism in Palestine in the early years of the First World War because she wanted American Jews to ally their country in the war against Turkey . |
| 30 | Schoop was , however , found guilty on the same charges because she gave further details to Hans Kopp when he telephoned her later the same day at his wife 's suggestion . |