Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately not , the only two that I knew were Al ( Byrne ) and Kev Daly ( Who also played in the youth FA cup final ) Because I went to school with them — they were both 2 years below me but Al 's brother was in my year and Kev went out with a girl who sat in front of me . |
| 2 | If you tell him you have a pain in your chest , he just says , ‘ Well it 's because you came to prison , that 's why you have the pain . ’ |
| 3 | She got up later than he did because she went to sleep later , tossing and sometimes weeping , and in the end usually fumbling her way downstairs to get herself a drink . |
| 4 | You see , that was all school when I was a kid because we went to school in a chapel for part of the war . |
| 5 | Though a military race , the Celts , unlike the Spartans , were not controlled by women , because they inclined to homosexuality ; but , like the Spartans , they brought up their children austerely . |
| 6 | These were the children some of the teachers looked down on because they came to school with unmended holes in their jumpers , or no proper shoes , only canvas sandshoes to see them through the winter . |
| 7 | During the late nineteenth century , Medical Officers of Health , in particular , contended that women going out to work were responsible for raising the infant mortality rate because they tended to bottle-feed their infants and because , by carrying them out to nurse in the early morning , they exposed them to bronchitis . |
| 8 | The Africans were described as ‘ noisy ’ because they liked to party and sing and dance . |
| 9 | She wished he were not being so kind , so tender — even if it was because he hoped to cajole her into selling him her house . |
| 10 | Sidney pretended to be upset about this — at least I think he was pretending — because he said to Uncle , ‘ A's not friends wi' thee now — thee 's parted wi' my white dog ’ . |
| 11 | Daddy must have been quite young when he left , because he went to school at North Stainmore . |
| 12 | He kept dropping off in their presence because he went to work at three every morning . |
| 13 | Public prosecutor Andrei Makarov declared afterwards that it had been significant " not so much because it punished Ostashvili , but because it brought to light the forces standing behind this small figure and exposed the fascism which is growing in society " . |
| 14 | TI blames itself for telling the newsletter that that would be the ‘ average price for 1993 ’ because it forgot to factor in the industry practice of constantly repricing in the face of better yields . |