Example sentences of "because she [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's only because she thinks all you 've achieved is quite amazing . |
| 2 | Doctors fear Mrs Conlan may have taken her daughter away because she thinks further treatment is futile . |
| 3 | Love flared through her , she felt desire and sadness too because she knew this was a fleeting moment . |
| 4 | Alice , with a thousand terrible things to say about her father , kept them back , because she loved Jim , loved his helplessness , his vulnerability , and her own part in alleviating these wounds ; because she knew this man , or boy he was twenty-two — was really sweet , had a sweet gentle warmth in him ; and she knew that a spell of happiness , of success , would transform him . |
| 5 | She was told — and believed — that the woman Charles once called ‘ my old soak ’ ( because she absorbed all his worries ) no longer tended to his demands . |
| 6 | Alice too , because she looked peaky . |
| 7 | Had anyone ever taken the mickey out of her because she looked untidy ? |
| 8 | ‘ I really loved her , ’ he recalled , ‘ not only because she looked beautiful , but because she 's basic and natural . |
| 9 | She submits , not because she is threatened with or fears immediate violence , but because she feels helpless to resist in a situation in which he is all-powerful and she is powerless . |
| 10 | And more often than not , when I come back from me mum 's , I find little bits in the bottom of the bag because she feels sorry for us . |
| 11 | And that 's when I think it starts to get into into shady ground where where the woman has n't actually said no because she feels intimidated not by violence but by social pressure . |
| 12 | Because she spent endless time and money searching for her father , for the man on her birth certificate who did n't exist ! |
| 13 | Partly because she spent much of the day alone in the house painting , she welcomed company in the evenings and would press Rodrigo into more visits to Soho than he wished to make . |
| 14 | Jenny had formed relationships with several boyfriends , but these usually ended because she became over-dependent . |
| 15 | A woman sacked by the RAF because she became pregnant has been awarded twenty-two thousand pounds compensation . |
| 16 | The wedding had to be postponed because she became ill , and before it could take place , the King dissolved Parliament and revoked its laws . |
| 17 | She was miserable , not because she felt unhappy , but because she imagined herself rejected by society . |
| 18 | The water and the Juicy Fruit seemed to have done the trick because she felt great . |
| 19 | She said she had held the document back for so long because she was afraid it would re-open old wounds for my mother and because she felt sure it was better for us not to know what it contained . ’ |
| 20 | Although Tracey Cole 's case is extreme it 's not isolated , In January Pamela Wray hanged herself at her parents home in Oxford , because she felt inadequate . |
| 21 | The school 's offer of support put Clara in a difficult position , because she felt obliged to make the project known to her mother . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , Travis , ’ mourned Leith , and , because she felt helpless to give him any verbal comfort , she stretched out a hand of sympathy to his arm . |
| 23 | None the less , throughout the autumn and the cold winter that followed , those three hundred yards became three hundred years each and every time , the sign of her defeat , the sign of her capture — she felt herself a wild animal tamed and she devoted herself to Maggie with what appeared to be maternal passion mainly because she felt guilty at her lack of joy in it . |
| 24 | Carrie lingered , partly because she felt so sorry suddenly , and partly because she felt guilty . |
| 25 | ‘ Coming back to Sara : she went to post a letter , took a little walk in the rain , heard nothing , saw nothing and said nothing about it because she felt silly — is that it , sir ? ’ |
| 26 | Mary telephoned the therapist 2 months later because she felt unable to decide whether to return to her ex-husband or to stay with her boyfriend . |
| 27 | She muttered , her face becoming red because she felt embarrassed . |
| 28 | Peter Barkworth ends his Sassoon evenings by waving triumphantly a battered copy of the memoirs ; even with a more controversial figure such as Lillian Hellman , Frances de la Tour only accepted because she felt sympathetic and compatible . |
| 29 | Because she lacked academic qualifications , Miss Green never conducted a Tutorial Class , but she revelled in her Terminal and , less frequently , One-Year courses . |
| 30 | Bubbly Julie , 45 , was awarded the Wales Tourist Board 's ‘ Welcome Host ’ title because she offered super service with a smile at her hotel . |