Example sentences of "because [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I actually bought the Levin because my first choice was unavailable . |
| 2 | Because my first experience of love was here , I have never wholly transplanted myself from this soil . |
| 3 | ITV 's viewing figures are low because their First Division games are screened only in certain regions — but their choice last Sunday , Charlton 's goal-less draw with Birmingham , was a turn-off . |
| 4 | Perhaps she knew he wanted a son , perhaps she said her first marriage broke up because her first husband found out he was n't the father . ’ |
| 5 | And then , because her first effort had been wrong , it was hard to know , now , if or when she was ready . |
| 6 | Eismark said he felt guilty because his first marriage had never ended , he said it could never end — das wird nie vorüber sein — and it would always be a secret he must keep from his new wife . |
| 7 | In the case of the white boy , we can rule out the possibility of " mother-tongue " interference because his first exposure to Creole was almost certainly rather late in life and too late to " interfere " with his acquisition of LE . |
| 8 | IT would n't happen on this newspaper , of course , but in Washington a reporter got fed up with his editor having a go at him because his first sentences were too long . |
| 9 | It must have showed — or else Tom Russell was already far too skilled at reading her emotions — because his first words to her when they were seated in his red sports car were , ‘ Cat got your tongue ? ’ |
| 10 | He enjoyed telling it because his first attempt , to Franco , had been made in a desperate sort of pidgin-Italian . |
| 11 | Just because your first relationship did n't work ? ’ |