Example sentences of "because they felt [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 People got tired of interviewing him because they felt they were being made fools of .
2 Then again , it is always possible they tokenised the ban a ) because they felt they could get away with it ; b ) because the stars involved are too big to lose ( especially the photogenic Krabbe ) from the firmament of German sport ; c ) because if it could all be made to look like a mistake , world athletics might look that much cleaner ; d ) because they feared a backlash from the disenfranchised trio , in the form of wholesale revelations about the extent of drug use in athletics , both in Germany and all over the world ; and e ) arising perhaps out of D , they do n't feel like visiting a heavy punishment on their own girls , when there are many others the world over who are equally deserving of banishment .
3 They said they had decided to stop counselling , because they felt they needed to think about and digest what they had talked about so far .
4 It was no empty show or flippant rehearsal of an ancient practice : they were in deadly earnest , serious and secret about everything concerning the frog 's bone , mainly because they felt they were dealing with something that was dangerous .
5 That was a great week because they felt they were getting it for nothing , till it come to the end of the quarter and then they had to pay it .
6 Now erm the wealthy peasants or and sort of and , and other people who , who were possibly sort of er small landlords , they were trying to get involved in these associations because they felt they , they could see they were gathering pace and that the , the cost of exclusion would be very high .
7 There were those like Hugh Price Hughes who joined in the reaction against individualism because they felt it had narrowed the churches ' work among working people :
8 The light shows through the membrane-type front panel — which a couple of people here did n't like because they felt it looked a bit cheap .
9 The elements of the curriculum considered essential by LEAs were varied and some were reluctant to make any statement on this because they felt it the job of schools .
10 ‘ Well , so old Wilson used to tell us that lots of men opposed it because they felt it would lead to women in trousers sitting in pubs drinking pints of bitter .
11 But I idiotically thought I could see Antoinette and Piers looking rather amused and I was sure it was because they felt I did n't know him as well as I 'd said .
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