Example sentences of "because it [vb past] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet even that was cruel because it left her thoughts an active prisoner . |
| 2 | There was no denying that the new corset had an impressive effect on her waist , but the dress disconcerted her — the first true evening dress she had ever had — because it left her shoulders quite bare as well as a considerable amount of — of , well , upper bosom , and all her arms . |
| 3 | Dorothea had told Florence Ames the story of Gaily in the church twice before , and neither of them was yet tired of it , Dorothea because it pleased her friend so to hear it , and Florence because it pleased her that the man had been somehow vindicated , turned out to be as good as she had thought , and a friend . |
| 4 | But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now . |
| 5 | Diana enjoyed herself enormously at the birthday party not least because it brought her sister down a peg or two . |
| 6 | I did n't because it made her feet ache . |
| 7 | well Lindsey , mind she smoking when she was twelve and drinking and she did n't like it she says because it made her head go all funny and she did n't know what was going on , what was happening . |
| 8 | The main reason Clare did not allow credit was because it complicated her bookkeeping . |
| 9 | She was thankful for that , because it gave her time to think carefully about the extraordinary situation which had so unexpectedly arisen . |