Example sentences of "[be] because [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He thinks the ministry is an affectation and a waste of time , and on the other hand he thinks priests should be very good , and he does n't think I am because he 's known me for so long , so he 's annoyed with me . |
| 2 | We had to be because we had lost our real families |
| 3 | That 's erm moving along a little bit erm there 's also this business of of what I suppose in other contexts has been called blaming the victim , this business of children somehow inviting the the , if they have actually been abused , it must be because they 've invited it so erm that 's erm . |
| 4 | If they exercised them , it should be because they had earned them . |
| 5 | I think there must be because I 've seen it several times now and just in , in , you know |
| 6 | Now she began to wonder about that ; it could n't simply be because she 'd disliked him , since she 'd disliked clients before , but that had n't prevented her from giving them the same professional treatment she gave to everyone . |
| 7 | That is because we 've given them good service over the past three years . |
| 8 | Elrond 's adamant refusal to take the Ring is because he has considered its advantages but is wise enough to see that it would ruin him utterly . |
| 9 | I would like to think it 's because we have shown our ability to spend the money well in previous years . ’ |
| 10 | A school had only to ask and he would talk to the boys and girls , and dozens of boys came to King 's because he had met them in a train or at school . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's because you 've let him get away , ’ Whitlock snarled but the policeman snapped at him to face the front when he tried to look round . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's because you 've dropped them . |
| 13 | And that 's because I 've had it cut . |
| 14 | I suppose it 's because she 's got something else to think about now . |
| 15 | Because so many people so badly wanted it to succeed when it did they almost believed it was because they had willed it to . |
| 16 | ‘ Only one , ’ said Ken , ‘ and that was n't because I forgot it : it was because they 'd given me bad directions . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Like a fool , I told her that the only reason I 'd married her was because she 'd told me she was pregnant . |
| 18 | In the meantime , as I recall , er I I asked him who he was and I asked his wife who he was because he had asked what we were doing in his house and when he said his house , I thought then for the first time that perhaps this was n't who er we had on the floor . |
| 19 | Paddick told him it was because he had watched him at work for so long . |
| 20 | ‘ When I told Martin that I was 10 weeks ' pregnant with my second child , he enjoyed telling people how clever I was because I 'd arranged it between the interims and the final results ! ’ |
| 21 | The parson rode nearer , and after a moment 's hesitation , explained : ‘ It was because I 've discovered something of historical interest . |