Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] because [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody read them but Clara , and she read them only because she read everything . |
| 2 | I just used them up because I wanted to make the camera to have a new film in for dad . |
| 3 | I started off with the three men in the middle of the park Saturday , we changed it round because I think we needed an extra striker at the Wolves , and I did n't think we played that badly . |
| 4 | I lifted them early because I did n't want to leave them any longer because they were going to get damaged and they were , they were a wet potato when they came up and they 've cooked wet , so I think that the amount of rainfall you have has a lot to do with it . |
| 5 | He identified her easily because everyone looked her way . |
| 6 | But Carmen , 40 , turned her down because she felt she already had too many children on her books . |
| 7 | Wurlitzer originally wrote a quite different last chapter to his novel but threw it away because it seemed too analytical . |
| 8 | It says the common folk , the crowds , the populous , they heard him gladly because he spoke as one having authority ! |
| 9 | Perhaps he just got fed up acting normal and decided to act crazy instead , and they locked him up because he went too far . ’ |
| 10 | I ENJOYED it most because it made me laugh so much . |
| 11 | I called you over because I want you to look after the new lady . |
| 12 | Henry liked his company because it was convivial ; the staying in bed disconcerted him partly because they went on having a good time together however energetically Finch adopted inertia . |
| 13 | and we do n't we needed her before because we had one typist , we do n't need that now , we c we can cover |
| 14 | He put on a tape of Vivaldi and then switched it off because he said they had too much to talk about . |
| 15 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 16 | She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . |
| 17 | so we saw them , er saw them actually because we live in a flat , and we saw them coming from the station , er one , one Saturday morning |
| 18 | Which meant , in effect , that though some parents chose to send their children there rather than to the Grammar School , many more sent them there because they failed their eleven-plus , that Beecher 's Brook of English childhood . |
| 19 | Those outside the card-playing school viewed her suspiciously because she seemed to get embarrassing crushes on a few of her colleagues . |
| 20 | I crossed it out because I thought it was gon na say cos I thought it said , survey managers are instructed to work at all times |
| 21 | Event Organiser Dave Sargeant said : ‘ Children In Need is a very worthwhile cause and we chose it again because we have a lot of fun while raising money with the various events . |
| 22 | Last summer I really lived it up because I treated myself to some peaches . |
| 23 | Er , you know , well of course they were young girls and er , you see and there 's , there was nothing we could do , you see , and , and er , anyway the doctor , as soon as the doctor did come , it was because th the young staff er they had to , they took her away to the mortuary , you see and erm then I , I had to carry on with her work and , and do the best I could and mine as well , you see , but of course er the Manager he appointed another Assistant Manager to go and collect the money which I used to do got it in because I took her times of duty as well and er , you see , and then after that er after several weeks I suppose it was , I do n't know how many because I forget how many , that they appointed me as Manageress and I was in that position for twelve years , you see and |
| 24 | She had believed Thomas was shy of the Dane , but now she realised that the child gave nothing out because he received nothing back in return . |
| 25 | She took it from him and sipped at the sweet sherry , reminded by its taste that he bought it specially because she did n't like sweet sherry . |
| 26 | He did it not because he liked people that night but to make a moral point about something or other . |
| 27 | But Ralph neither wanted nor expected much praise for what he did — he did it mainly because he wanted to prevent other children from experiencing the pain which he himself had felt , and , in the back of his mind , he knew Piggy would have approved . |
| 28 | Jinny remembered it clearly because it had been quite different from all the solemn newspaper cuttings Keith had shown her , and she had stopped to make fun of one or two of Harriet Shakespeare 's more nauseating remarks . |
| 29 | But what er what happened is when they rebuilt this building in the fifteenth century the masons found these and reused them reset them inside because they 'd lost their significance in over the three hundred years , so but they were useful structural er things . |
| 30 | I was on the pill at the time , but I deliberately left it off because I wanted someone to love . |