Example sentences of "because [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're here because I said certain things about you after the race , you can sod off back south right now . ’ |
| 2 | Sadly much of the animosity generated about Cochrane and Bennett originated from within No 5 Group and a great deal I was able to counter before it reached tap-room levels , I never felt I was running with the fox because I had great feeling and admiration for both these Olympian " gores , in fact , Cochrane invited me to move to No 5 Group with him when he left No 3 Group , but I declined as I was in mid-tour . |
| 3 | And that 's only because I had good teachers — I do n't think that I have any special superhuman gift for it . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | ‘ My position was one of timid and humble listener … ’ said the Spanish painter Remedios Varo , speaking for many of her Surrealist sisters , ‘ I was together with them because I felt certain affinity ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This , he explains , was ‘ partly because I used four-letter words in front of the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 8 | But it was because I needed other women , and I needed to be truthful about it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I did n't employ you on that business because you had other duties . |
| 11 | Because she spent endless time and money searching for her father , for the man on her birth certificate who did n't exist ! |
| 12 | Because she lacked academic qualifications , Miss Green never conducted a Tutorial Class , but she revelled in her Terminal and , less frequently , One-Year courses . |
| 13 | Bubbly Julie , 45 , was awarded the Wales Tourist Board 's ‘ Welcome Host ’ title because she offered super service with a smile at her hotel . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Because she took electric baths |
| 16 | Because she pleased Pre-Menstrual Tension . |
| 17 | Hers was also a significant name because she had black hair and her disappearance was reported on May 17th . |
| 18 | She has set up her own training school because she found conventional training schemes offered no scope for the kind of message she wants to get across . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She went inside for a moment , because she loved old things — and St Peter 's , Overclyst , was very old indeed . |
| 22 | Perhaps it was because she liked Brown Owl so much that she wanted her to marry someone rather special and wonderful . |
| 23 | It was terrific because we had young boys out there . ’ |
| 24 | We 'd been in the same form for two terms without really speaking because we had separate friends and in any case at St Edward 's you were seated according to your exam results at the end of the previous term , so it was n't likely we 'd be close . |
| 25 | The detention of COWAN 's president serves as a lesson especially because we had similar experiences with Brooklyn Village in Acornhoek , between 1989 and 1990 . |
| 26 | We called up all the record companies to see shows and they let us go and see all the shows because we had American accents and we were crazy . |
| 27 | oh , not very well , we erm , we stopped going after Christmas because we had bad chests both of us |
| 28 | Because we encountered similar accounts repeatedly I am justified in pointing to shared models or myths . |
| 29 | And I think we succeeded in our Phalangist youth movement because we created young men who were prepared for politics . ’ |
| 30 | Second , about the same time , there was a view in Europe that non-Europeans were mentally degenerate because they lacked Western culture . |