Example sentences of "partly because she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julia closed her eyes , partly because that was a question she did not want to answer and partly because she thought it might help to stop her flinging her arms around his neck and saying , kiss me , oh please kiss me . |
| 2 | Carrie lingered , partly because she felt so sorry suddenly , and partly because she felt guilty . |
| 3 | Carrie lingered , partly because she felt so sorry suddenly , and partly because she felt guilty . |
| 4 | But Miriam had noticed the slight intake of breath ; she had been perfectly aware that Louise might be shocked by her words but she had spoken them anyway , partly because she felt too weary not to say what she meant , partly because , though she liked Louise , she sometimes found her sweetness and prudish innocence rather cloying and it gratified her to offend them . |
| 5 | Even the seemingly unassailable Henrietta Law grew to adore Johnny Minton partly because she felt , in his company , that things were all right . |
| 6 | She was chairman of the British section for ten years but left , partly because she believed that the League 's pacifism was unrealistic . |
| 7 | She was quite good with delinquent adolescents partly because she seemed to have some insight into the impulse that makes the young and the violent turn on the weak and the defenceless … |
| 8 | Maggie had never bothered to resist their reasoning , and she folded her clothes partly from the natural instinct of obedience , and partly because she had never been entirely sure that these external appendages did indeed belong to her , Maggie Petherington , or if perhaps they were loans from the mysterious outer world ; loans that would doubtless be called in some day . |
| 9 | She attracts much more of a following than previous Indian imports , partly because she encourages people to keep their jobs rather than dropping out to live in a commune . |
| 10 | Partly because she spent much of the day alone in the house painting , she welcomed company in the evenings and would press Rodrigo into more visits to Soho than he wished to make . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's partly because she has got herself cornered economically , and partly because deep down she thinks there is a nationalist string she can pluck to her electoral advantage . |
| 12 | He also said that he found his responsibilities ‘ a very great strain ’ , because his aunt was such a difficult , domineering person , and he would like to see her in a Home — partly because she needed more care and more company . |
| 13 | Jessamy puffed her way to the end of the track , then stood still , partly because she needed to get her breath back and partly because she was startled by the sight in front of her . |
| 14 | She had turned down their invitation tonight , partly because she was tired , and partly because she wanted to read the typed hand-outs which had accompanied the day 's lectures . |