Example sentences of "because [pron] [was/were] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I was born twin to Grainne … because the Royal Line must never divide … |
| 2 | I suppose , too , that I felt guilty : if I had behaved like a properly loving wife and refused to let Flora monopolize Richard so blatantly — which I only did because I was enjoying Adam 's company — the situation might not have arisen . |
| 3 | I , I remember being stared at because I was wearing trousers when I came to live in Scotland forty four years ago ! |
| 4 | Because I was telling Mary to see what she says do n't tell them she says , that your she says , do n't tell them that your windows are steamed up , she says , before you get the double glazing in . |
| 5 | The neck is made from maple , which was a surprise , because I was expecting mahogany . |
| 6 | M. B. I am quite candidly of the opinion that I would have left the police out of a feeling of resentment because I was overlooked time and time again for inferior men . |
| 7 | In fact , I first found out about Owen because I was treating Bronwen and David for ‘ stress ’ . |
| 8 | My sister ate , but I refused , not out of sacrifice nor because I was resisting temptation ( I firmly believed that meat would make me ill , as my mother said ) , but because I knew — though this formulation is the adult 's rather than the ten-year old 's — that the price of the meal was condemnation of my mother 's oddness , and I was n't having that . |
| 9 | ‘ Because somebody was asking Kenny about you when he had his accident . ’ |
| 10 | you were entitled to free treatment because you were getting Income Support or Family Credit or |
| 11 | What else have you got , have you finished your course because you were making appointments on that ? |
| 12 | And it was all your own fault because you were stinking pig greedy and ate all my chocolate . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Around five o'clock — she left early because she was meeting Giles . |
| 14 | Only Laura 's secure philosophy of family life enabled her to combine the roles because she was given school holidays and other crucial times off . |
| 15 | In the event she cycled much further , because she was given directions in the village to a riding stable . |
| 16 | When Alice said she had to go , because she was expecting Jasper , and stood up , Andrew did too , and seemed to hesitate . |
| 17 | Her new liver took straight away but she had to go on a ventilator because she was having problems with her lungs . ’ |
| 18 | Four months after Clare opened her toy shop , her bank manager advised her to close it as quickly as possible , because she was losing money at a steady and frightening pace . |
| 19 | And they needed the loan of extra pumps because she was making water . |
| 20 | None of it registered , because she was fighting tears that were perilously near . |
| 21 | Iran declared its neutrality in the First World war , but most Iranian sympathy lay with German because she was fighting Great Britain and Russia . |
| 22 | She thinks it 's because she was carrying Gemma . |
| 23 | there is Suzannah the whore in biblical legend and the prostitute who models as Suzannah , their stories parallel with that of Artemesia who because she was raped changes from virgin to whore all three were exploited and abused by men . |
| 24 | ‘ His , er , surcoat has both the lions of England and the lilies of France because we were laying claim to the disputed French throne at the time . |
| 25 | The first morning we spent weaving with every other needle , laying the wool across by hand ! this put me off right away , because we were using punchcard machines , so nothing would have been easier than to slip in Card 1 and go ahead with our weaving without any trouble . |
| 26 | ‘ Because we were having work done on our house , Sophie and I were staying in a rented place and it did n't have a phone . |
| 27 | When I auditioned with Mike , he gave me a list of twenty-five songs to work on and I thought I had to learn them all in five days , because we were starting rehearsals only a week later ! |
| 28 | ( I watched the videos once , because they were rated x , but I found them terribly dull , and the leading man looked like my girlfriend 's father . |
| 29 | Although some of the Mites were as old as fifteen , because they were called Mites , their routines were always childlike . |
| 30 | Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress . |