Example sentences of "do [pers pn] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | When household chores get left , you feel guilty you have n't done them because you consider it 's your job . |
| 2 | So he thinks I should do you because he despises me , too , and he thinks I 'm God 's scum . |
| 3 | And so I should do you because you shave under your armpits and maybe you would have a baby and that would spite your father . ’ |
| 4 | I think someone else should have done it because it is not our vocation . |
| 5 | I 've always done it because I have a good time doing it . |
| 6 | He done it because he wanted to . |
| 7 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
| 8 | In others , they have done it because they have felt they have had to : perhaps they would have failed to attract and keep labour if the jobs had been too fragmented . |
| 9 | Of the women who admitted to New Woman magazine that they had slept with another man about 80 per cent said they 'd done it because they were unhappy in their current relationship . |
| 10 | Not really with me … ’ she paused and looked up into Miss Hatherby 's troubled face ‘ … she felt that you had done it because you did n't approve . ’ |
| 11 | She 'd done it because she cared . |
| 12 | I suggest that you make an ample settlement on the child and write and tell his new stepfather what you have done , and that you have done it because you are determined that no one else should have any financial responsibility for a child of your blood . |
| 13 | I think he done it because he was picked on a lot and most likely thought he had n't got a lot going for him . |
| 14 | Many times during this pocket lecture she could have turned and looked at her instructor , and put him clean out of countenance merely by looking ; but she had not done it because she was so sure that he was the young man from the entrance booth , a licensed enthusiast , and entitled to his brief moments of emotional escape . |
| 15 | ‘ You think I 've done it because of what you said ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You have probably done it because it is hot tonight , or maybe you have used up the trousers . ’ |
| 17 | I did n't enjoy deceiving Eric , but I knew it was necessary ; I could n't tell him I 'd done it because he would n't have understood why I 'd done it . |
| 18 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
| 19 | It 's only on Innsbruck that we 've done it because that 's what the market demands . |
| 20 | I thought they 'd done it because Ray I asked a question the other morning in the Tardis , cos it was on the board . |
| 21 | ‘ We can not do it because Gramm-Rudman-Hollings will not let us ’ has become a familiar refrain . |
| 22 | The dilemma threatened to spoil Sally 's happiness but one thing she was certain of — whatever it took she would do it because she could n't bear to lose him . |
| 23 | I 'll do it because they ask me to , but I do n't feel , like , ‘ Oh God , I 'm a big star signing autographs . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't do it because of him/her . ’ |
| 25 | I may be tempted to offer the spontaneous inclination itself as reason for my choice , and say I shall do it because I want to do it ; but in examining myself objectively I see that a fact about my wants and likes would be directly relevant only to a causal explanation of my actions , and could be used in deciding what to do only as I use any other objective facts . |
| 26 | Among the more imaginative excuses were ‘ I could n't do it because the dog was pining , ’ ‘ the file fell in the bin and the cleaners came ’ and ‘ my wife wanted to make love ’ , finanacial recruitment consultants Accountemps found . |
| 27 | Ben can do it because … well , he 's a man , and one expects it from a man . |
| 28 | And I suspect that if we offered them counselling from cater good catering advice on how to maximise their market return they 'll do it because I would n't hang about for a meal if I knew that they would n't give you a meal in fifteen minutes , I 'd go and eat somewhere else . |
| 29 | but you can do it because you know you can go back home as it were in to the other area . |
| 30 | ‘ A corporate finance house could n't do it because of competition with other corporate finance houses whereas we have no involvement in that respect . ’ |