Example sentences of "because she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally did n't choose to dress Princess Diana for a disco because she thinks Diana is ‘ a bit boring really ’ . |
| 2 | The youth may want to buy a motor bike , but his mother wants him to purchase an old car because she thinks bikes are dangerous and will get him into bad company . |
| 3 | Doctors fear Mrs Conlan may have taken her daughter away because she thinks further treatment is futile . |
| 4 | Explain how you would deal with an agitated lady on the telephone who wants to speak to the manager because she thinks she left her watch on the washbasin of her room when she checked out . |
| 5 | ‘ She thinks I would n't be too much competition for her , ’ she said , ‘ because she thinks you 're not very much in love with me . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ That 's only because she thinks all you 've achieved is quite amazing . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's been worried sick because she thinks he 's still a suspect . ’ |
| 8 | Could you make sure that Jenny is clearly briefed then , because she thinks , this is version N3 , dated January '94 . |
| 9 | You 've probably all been in situation where you seen people zigzag across the road because they think they 're being followed the ladies will do it because she thinks a bloke is following her and the men are probably thinking does she think I 'm following her ? |
| 10 | No , she has n't age , because she thinks she 's she 's been a big girl , and she 's now a little girl . |
| 11 | Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy , for example , was associated with the suffrage movement , Butler 's campaign against the CD Acts , and the campaign for the Married Women 's Property Acts , while Millicent Fawcett , though withholding public support for Butler because she feared it would bring the suffrage movement into disrepute , in fact wholeheartedly approved of her work . |
| 12 | It was not because she feared drawing his attention to her presence . |
| 13 | And she also knew that the reason for her pettiness was because she feared that Silas was disappointed in Doreen 's refusal to help at the barbecue . |
| 14 | Nicky too must have recognised the uncharacteristic gap in his self-absorption and wondered what was coming , because she rushed into speech . |
| 15 | She 's wrong because she falls into the latter category . |
| 16 | CHAMPION golfer Fred Couples has walked out on his wife of 12 years because she embarrassed him by dancing on a table , friends claimed last night . |
| 17 | Halfway through lunch , this blonde , baby-faced girl started to kill herself with anxiety because she saw someone she knew but could not remember their name . |
| 18 | Because she saw that it Was true . |
| 19 | Dot did not know what Psalms were , but she felt she was beginning to understand about quiet and gentle greenness because she saw it all around her . |
| 20 | Clarissa was particularly solicitous to Charles because she saw that , having been very red in the face , he was now quite pale . |
| 21 | ‘ What are we going to do with you , Martha ? ’ the exhausted woman exclaimed , attempting jollity because she saw that the child was distressed by her failure . |
| 22 | One day , much to Dustin 's irritation , she asked the driver of the limo that was taking the two of them back to Manhattan to stop because she saw a wishing star in the sky . |
| 23 | Maybe because she saw the killing and could identify the man who did it . |
| 24 | Today , it 's known as Lolly 's Lagoon because she saw it first . |
| 25 | Was this just because she saw herself as a Frieda Lawrence figure , or was there some firmer basis for it ? |
| 26 | She could n't turn either way for help because she knew the answer would be ‘ it is your own fault ’ . |
| 27 | Had she risen to this intangible slight bait because she knew Hatton 's wealth had been dishonestly come by ? |
| 28 | She sat and stared along the Edge , down into the dale , not bothering to strain her ears and listen to the radio , because she knew it was pointless . |
| 29 | Unconsciously she put a note of hope into those half-scandalized questionings , because she knew I knew she would never be happy if I married . |
| 30 | She was in control now , because she knew the truth about Simon 's real character . |