Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] because [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also very noticeable in the United States how many American lawyers asked for assistance because they wished to refer work to an English barrister . |
| 2 | ‘ I only moved from Middlesbrough because I became a little stale . |
| 3 | I have never met anyone who objected to capitalism because it relied on the freedom of the individual to buy and sell , to produce and innovate , to save and invest . |
| 4 | I sighed and lingered over coffee because I know I 'd be in for a long session while I listened to June 's catalogue of woes . |
| 5 | Was this a new area for you when you came to Suffolk because we have the docks close by , chemicals coming in there and at Felixstowe , |
| 6 | I came to Taipei because I wanted this job , not to be with Florian Jones . |
| 7 | It must have been then that the two coaches came to light because we moved house in 1925 and quite certainly the coaches were never at the old house but appeared very early on at the new one . |
| 8 | What happened with perishables because you said there was no power no electricity no fridges no freezers nothing . |
| 9 | Tony O'Brien first got into photography because he did n't know what he wanted to do . |
| 10 | They piled into Deptford because someone heard a shot and phoned them . |
| 11 | ‘ You mean we lived in London because you thought it was what I wanted ? ’ |
| 12 | That 's why I think people got in debt because they 'd been having things that they could n't afford , I mean er , at one time you was never encouraged to ha er have things , now I mean the minute they see you 're getting low on your , oh have something else , have something else |
| 13 | [ Oh , by the way , when Bluff King Hal broke with Rome because he wanted to get amongst Boleyn 's petticoats , the tomb was wrecked and Richard 's corpse dumped into the River Stour . ] |
| 14 | But then Chant knew that sacred places — and Gamut Street was sacred in its way — survived on occasion because they went unseen , even in plain sight . |
| 15 | He worked on numbers because he thought they controlled people 's lives . |
| 16 | ‘ When I had the idea of setting up a promotions business , I immediately thought of Pete because I knew I could work with him . |
| 17 | She seems to have been a girl who drifted into relationships because she did n't like upsetting people . |
| 18 | You need one of those slave-driving old studio bosses if you ask me , not a sensitive graduate who went into movies because he liked the clouds in Antonioni and then turned himself into a nouvelle vague Deutscher all hot for Truthspiel . |
| 19 | ‘ I went into analysis because I realised I was a dangerous character — I mean this suicidal , self-destructive instinct I had . |
| 20 | ‘ We never submitted to the Italians : we went into exile because we supported the Sanusi ’ was not a thoroughgoing rejection of government . |
| 21 | In other words , whereas Fred grew in understanding because he started with experience and read to feed the interest which derived from it , those who started with the reading failed to develop understanding because the interest was not there . |
| 22 | She went to Indooroophilly because she lived there now , and in an evening that had turned rather sad and sour she did n't know what else to do . |
| 23 | Litigants went to court because they had adopted ‘ Western ’ legal values . |
| 24 | He never went to court because they said I was too young to give evidence . |
| 25 | As far as I 'm concerned , I went to Hector because I knew him and I knew he 'd let me have a boat cheaply , and I 've used it since then — since the fifteenth — for pleasure , and now to come over and look my people up . |
| 26 | He went to funerals because he liked to think of people being dead in coffins . |
| 27 | And I cried for Arnie because he 'd trusted me . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We have to try to build on what we did in Australia because we have n't time to do anything else , ’ McGeechan said . |
| 29 | Mostly , they bought on credit because they did not have the cash , or because it would take them too long to save it up . |
| 30 | The two essential points are that fewer than one in three had considered paying cash as a real alternative ; and that half said they bought on credit because they did n't have the cash , while about another quarter gave answers ( like ‘ needed it right away ’ ) which boil down to much the same . |