Example sentences of "because [pron] were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes ; and that 's what it was ; a badge of manhood ; because you sensed that before you went into the mine , because you were wearing the moleskin trousers . |
| 2 | Or did you not bother with the slap because you were enjoying the tickling so much ? ’ |
| 3 | Rudy were n't about because we were building the conservatory , we were off to Spain the next day |
| 4 | Probably due to the newness of our sample , this proved quite difficult to do , but by the end of the test it was getting easier , either because the sleeve was wearing in , or because we were developing the knack — you must push the sleeve right back . |
| 5 | The problem had hit Britain now because we were feeding the algae with phosphates and nitrates and causing blooms . |
| 6 | I always felt an affinity with Donna , I thought it was because we were born the same day — ’ |
| 7 | I went often , partly because I enjoyed dancing and partly because we were offered the most delicious cakes , of a sort that was almost impossible to obtain except on the black market . |
| 8 | picking up the staff costs there was some concern about putting that in there because we were awaiting the result of the T S G settlement . |
| 9 | Oh , that they knew er something of the Hebrew scriptures because they were expecting the Messiah were n't they ? |
| 10 | Will be passed on , but in this instance they all need to be shown how to work it , yes , mhm , so that concerned me a little bit , apparently because they were holding the mike right up to their mouth and it was distorting terribly what 's going on up there |
| 11 | The fire was built up higher than usual to guide them back to the camp , but also , Riven thought , because they were imagining the packs of grypesh coming after them out of the heights of the hills . |
| 12 | Because they were effecting the repair work themselves it had taken longer to complete than if they had let the Yard do it , but even so the tow had been under way again shortly after noon on the third day . |
| 13 | I would suggest that there were no pictures of the cup final pitch invasion by Linfield fans because ( 1 ) they were celebrating a brilliant goal , but more importantly ( 2 ) the police put the Glenavon fans further back than the Linfield fans because they were provoking the Bluemen . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , many did not reach this country , the United States , Canada or any other safe country but ended up in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and Dachau because they were denied the right to asylum . |
| 15 | That may be of course because they were denied the Liberal Democrats panacea for everything namely erm proportional representation . |
| 16 | There was a great crowd , singing , shouting , all very good-humoured — not , I think , because they were taking the situation lightly but because they were buoyed up by the feeling that here was something quite above ordinary political argument , a clearly defined moral issue on which people could stand up and be counted . |
| 17 | No , no just went in ordinary civilian wear , girls sometimes had some overalls because they were handling the ticket boxes , they were metal , they got wet , they rusted up and that was a filthy job for there was really , in those days it was a two box system , a man drew his box which contained a certain amount of tickets of different variable classes and erm , it was listed on a waybill , he was given a half an hour to check his box and join his bus at town centre . |
| 18 | Marie and me were on our honeymoon , staying with my brother in Darlington , when I got this letter from my mother saying we must come back immediately because they were starting the shoot . |
| 19 | By the end of the evening I had come to feel sorry for the waiters who had so debased themselves by their participation in the comedy ; not because they were cheating the state , but because they never responded to anyone except as an object , a part of the system in which they were trapped . |
| 20 | Well we were up there one time er at the Lothian region and we to be up and tell that this was imposing higher things on , higher prices on both the bus buses , because they were raising the bus fares at the same time , and they were increasing the lunch club . |