Example sentences of "[adv prt] because [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not allowed to play when Mum and Dad were in because they could n't stand the din , so I had to wait until they were down the pub to enjoy myself . |
| 2 | One was new and had come instead of his uncle who was ill , but the guards would not let him in because they did not know him by sight and they nearly threw him into the ditch before they would even let him go home . |
| 3 | Now good that 's a really brilliant point on any graph to put the units in because they give marks for that , when they see your graph they want to see you 've put the units on . |
| 4 | There was er she said , Blue Peter , and they should have put it in because they 've got it in for the kids . |
| 5 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 6 | They came flooding in because they were deliberately organised by welfare rights groups in those areas . |
| 7 | Most often , the car parks , protecting your customer 's property , offering him or her protection ; the fire exits ( not to stop people getting in because they are already alarmed but to check that they are not obstructed ) ; the reception or foyer and other public areas so that management can see which parts of the hotel are being used by guests and roughly by how many , which is very useful if there is an emergency and you have to clear the building ; and finally as a good old-fashioned deterrent and for detection . |
| 8 | I think that generally they came in because they liked the style erm they , they , usually had er , in their minds what they wanted and because they go round and see all these fittings at night , I mean our shop used to be all the fittings were lit up at night so that you could have a look in , erm it 's very confusing I think when you , you 've got an awful lot of fittings in , in , in a shop and , and all of them lit , decide which one 's gon na to be the best for your house , but I think most of them already had ideas what , what sort of fitting they wanted and of course we used to do a great deal of |
| 9 | this is going to be easy he thinks , so you 've made your mind up before you go to the shop , but unfortunately when you get there there 's a , they 've got these special hundred gram bars in because they , they have n't got a hundred , there 's a big sticker on them saying ten per cent more chocolate , extra bit free , extra ten per cent free , on the smaller bars , so which ones do you buy ? |
| 10 | Right , the arch braces of course had to be put in because they were if you look at it you 'll see that they were actually sawn off . |
| 11 | The concert was a sell out , but younger fans , some with their parents , were disappointed to find they could n't get in because they were under sixteen . |
| 12 | A couple say they may move out of their house just two weeks after moving in because they 've become the target of thieves . |
| 13 | Yeah , they 're only in because they two big logs on |
| 14 | And sometimes it 's pretty hard to get the one on the end in because they 've , you 've got jugs and things , and so you 're pushing them all up . |
| 15 | It was Mary says er open the door and let him in because they 'll kill him and then down from the bedroom |
| 16 | Erm in March the top branch was erm Hugh erm interestingly enough erm in the south erm Nicholas erm was well down on recruitment , he was down minus twenty seven on his fore on his target , but was significantly up on his bus business that he brought in because they 've been focusing on er in on that . |
| 17 | We did n't see the ball go in because we were on the 9th tee , but we heard hell of a din behind and Tom said , ‘ Some guy must have holed out . ’ |
| 18 | Or do we tend to build things in because we 've already done that type of job and we know the job and things in subconsciously where ? |
| 19 | But they make me die because you , you you 're a day , I mean we got this sort of letter the bailiffs were coming in because we were a day late . |
| 20 | Mm , I think we need to call , we get , get a builder in because we need that , that roof seeing to at the back . |
| 21 | In fact of course we put failsafe systems in because we 've got so many statistics and everything , because if you start putting false data in , it will be identified . |
| 22 | actually plugs in because we we got the old fashioned sort of wiring . |
| 23 | She had given in because she found him irresistible and , looking at his strong brown back in the first grey light of dawn , she still found him so . |
| 24 | She was really odd , she showed me the way but she kept saying she would n't come in because she was n't allowed to set foot in there . ’ |
| 25 | Lane had been assisted by a woman police officer , Detective -Sergeant Phyllis Henley , a thickset girl , whom he had called in because she was an old friend or enemy of Roxie whose own life had not been without criminal excitements . |
| 26 | My mum said , she 's going my mum said , she was going to sign in because she was late , and then I was giving her a pen like |
| 27 | she must 've been holding it in because she did n't wan na wipe her bum with her hand and then you know it just burst out before she could get to the toilet . |
| 28 | Partly he 'd be in because he was really into leather himself and partly he was there because his girlfriend of the time , Nora — who now lives with Johnny Rotten — was in the shop just about every day . |
| 29 | Stapleton , who is almost back to full fitness after a close-season knee operation , brought Pearson in because he wanted someone who could take charge in training — and have the respect of the players . |
| 30 | It appears that he 's in because he can play both sides of the scrum . |