Example sentences of "because they had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1798 the threat of military invasion from Napoleonic France had only just ebbed when the Bishop of Durham announced to a startled House of Lords that it had come to his attention that the only reason the enemy forces had backed away from military invasion was because they had hit on a more sinister method of bringing Britannia to heel . |
| 2 | He had taken an instant dislike to both Bodie and Doyle , not only because they had bungled the surveillance job on the van containing his potential assassins , but because they dressed casually , more suited to a Sunday afternoon jog than the serious business of the Secret Service . |
| 3 | Their views do n't matter , because they had turned their backs on God . |
| 4 | At that time — at least to start with — we could pick up some of those who had been the least successful in their school careers , often because they had turned their backs on the opportunities open to them , and provide the first steps towards training and employment . |
| 5 | The dust blew round his feet and often he rubbed his eyes because they had filled with water . |
| 6 | Well we are we like doing the videos because er in the early days we had a lot of problems I suppose with ourselves and with the video people because they had planned ideas for the songs . |
| 7 | It did seem that the main force squadrons in other Groups had more casualties than we did , partly because they had to cope with fully awakened defences , gun and searchlight crews as well as fighters , after PFF had done their job , and perhaps also because they had a higher proportion of new , inexperienced crews who were usually the first to come to grief . |
| 8 | That was because they had extracted from Lord Owen , one of the authors of the peace plan , a concession at a meeting in Greece last weekend that would prevent Croat or Muslim soldiers from reclaiming territory from which Serb troops had withdrawn . |
| 9 | But the journey took longer than they planned , because they had to watch out for the evil troll who lurked under the bridge . |
| 10 | Because they had taught a topic , it followed that the children had learned it . |
| 11 | As planning progressed the four groups into which the staff were easily divided ( because they had taught on four different sites ) came together in their views . |
| 12 | We had a row with Lucas there because they had fitted fuel injection to Jimmy Clark 's Lotus , despite promising us exclusive use for the season if we persevered with it . |
| 13 | The head of the judiciary , Ayatollah Mohammed Ali Yazdi , at Friday prayers on March 20 mentioned the unprecedented access that ICRC delegates had recently been given to Iranian prisons , and said that the delegates should be replaced by a more competent team because they had given their " legal work … a political hue " . |
| 14 | ‘ It was a conscious decision to sign to Rough Trade because they had done a lot of good work in the past and right from day one they were our friend which is the most important thing . |
| 15 | Such as Agnes and Flora , two " unknowns " who sent her a postcard because they had seen her on " telly " and were sorry to hear she was poorly ; eighty-year-old Phoebe who kept them awake one night when she was in a distressed state ; the flower lover who treated the ward as a potting shed taking clippings from the various plants ; the " blether " of women she was invited to join round one of the beds when she was fit enough to take a short walk . |
| 16 | Our teachers were the nearest guides because they had travelled these routes before us ( though of course we would n't teach ) . |
| 17 | A ND you resist all eye contact , remembering the words of barrister Caradog Morgan who earlier this year , in defending one Victoria Carrington , freelance insurance consultant accused of assaulting two fellow passengers because they had joggled her newspaper and dared to look at her right in the face , said , ‘ There is a convention on the Underground that people do not look each other in the eye . ’ |
| 18 | the ones who are , who have seen it all before , and done it from last year , because they had to split a smaller section of them up into the first year . |
| 19 | They held me one night on a holding charge because they had to analyse the pharmaceuticals . |
| 20 | He knew that X would not sell him one because they had quarrelled . |
| 21 | Members of the CSJ , the NILP , the CPNI , the Belfast Wolfe Tone Society , the Republican Clubs and private individuals worked together because they had developed a personal commitment to the association , and not because they were directed by any outside agency . |
| 22 | In one case I know of , two friends resolved to escape because they had heard their parents ‘ scheming ’ of such marriages in the near future . |
| 23 | Curiously enough , there 's even a hint of a good age for Black artists : in the 1950s , before the Notting Hill race riots of 1958 and before the era of public subsidies , when Denis Bowen of the New Vision Centre and Victor Musgrave of Gallery One consistently showed unknown international artists , many of whom had turned up in London in the post-coronation years because they had heard of the Commonwealth . |
| 24 | The Palestinian Arabs left their homes because they were frightened , often because they had heard stories — accounts which were perfectly true — of the massacre of Arab civilians by Jewish gangs . |
| 25 | They knew of course that she was ‘ clever ’ because they had heard her being questioned by Miss Honey on the first day of term . |
| 26 | When hearing such tales those in the jungle would become quite terrified , and I once met a group of Chewong on the move with all their worldly belongings , having abandoned their settlement in order to resettle much deeper in the jungle because they had heard rumours that the Malays wanted Chewong heads . |
| 27 | For some reason , perhaps because they had heard it together , she equated that girl with the dead girl in her mind and thought that if bombers could actually see the people they were going to kill , see that they were young and beautiful and full of hope , they might not do what they did . |
| 28 | Not that they needed to hear what Mr Evans had to say because they had heard it before . |
| 29 | Because they had heard . |
| 30 | Now although the only known brother of Æthelred named Edmund died in the early 970s , when Thietmar of Merseburg describes events in England in 1016 he tells how , after a battle in which Edmund was killed , the Danes fled from before London because they had heard that help was on the way from Edmund 's brother Æthelstan and the Britannis . |