Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jamie must have taken a cigarette even though I knew he did n't smoke , because I saw the lighter go up , igniting in front of my eves in a shower of sparks like a fireworks display . |
| 2 | ‘ But nobody appreciates more than me how Ian feels because I endured the same thing at exactly this time last year . |
| 3 | Because I had the definite impression that this was the area he was working in . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah it made me feel better actually because I had the same impression as you . |
| 5 | ‘ I got hassle all the way through school because I had the wrong haircut and would n't wear uniform and I was just annoying and disruptive . |
| 6 | It would n't have mattered if he had turned out to be a Celtic supporter at that decisive moment because I had the Celtic team on my tongue all ready to trot out , starting with Kennaway , Cook , McGonigle . |
| 7 | In my experience , very few women can remain detached , but you must be one of that rare breed , because I formed the distinct impression that you did n't even like Calder when I heard you interviewing him , but how wrong can one be ? ’ |
| 8 | Looking for support and because I thought the Royal Society of Chemistry would welcome an opportunity of improving the standing of chemists in the community , some three years ago I sent the secretary-general of the RSC a letter very similar to the one published ( Chem . |
| 9 | But I 'll I 'll have to find out from them , it may be that they do n't want me to send anybody else to it because I made the initial contact with them . |
| 10 | I understood because I felt the same fear as they did . |
| 11 | So if I wrote , ‘ The next day was a Fuesday ’ because I hit the wrong key on the typewriter , they used to leave it in , thinking that was what the kids were saying at the time ! |
| 12 | ‘ They 've stopped ringing because I pulled the bloody wires out of the wall . |
| 13 | Yates wanted it realistically built ‘ because I wanted the duplex feeling without faking a big place like this . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It 's my own fault because I gave the main character the same birthday as me , so I 'd know how much he would be able to remember of his past . |
| 15 | I 'm here because I drew the short straw when Jan Killeen was dishing out people to chair particular interest groups in preparation for this work , and I drew the job of chairing the group on private care issues . |
| 16 | Just because you had the good fortune to pay nothing for your very expensive university education does little to justify a system of higher education which , at the same time , excluded 85 per cent of your age group from the privileged position you evidently enjoyed . |
| 17 | And you wo n't have headaches any more because you saved the other child and the baby . |
| 18 | Was it because she knew the Miletti family only too well , and was determined that this time at least everything should not be conveniently hushed up ? |
| 19 | ‘ Because she had the bloody cheek to say no one should fight for England if there 's a war , ’ Maggie said . |
| 20 | Well she copes because she had the same problem as me with her hands if she 's writing for long , her hands ache , so she can write a longer letter if she types , so I said I , I did n't really , I like a hand written letter best it seems more personal somehow , perhaps they do , having a typed letter means you can send a longer one , they all mean |
| 21 | Because we got the right name ! |
| 22 | for a grant for the toys because we got the original grant from Children In Need |
| 23 | And erm when Because we went the first day of our holidays , right away , to Deerness to my mother 's people . |
| 24 | The electric bill used to be so high because we had the electric fire on all the time and we used to leave the oven on as well . |
| 25 | Because we reinterviewed the same people at different times throughout the year , we were able to divide them into persistent readers of Tory tabloids , persistent readers of Labour tabloids , persistent readers of broadsheets and , finally , those who changed papers or read no paper regularly . |
| 26 | The ALP finished with 0.2 per cent less of the two-party preferred vote than did the opposition coalition , and in at least 10 instances the ALP won because they received the second preference votes of supporters of the Greens . |
| 27 | On the other hand the open villages , because they attracted the surplus labour force , contained workers on depressed wages who could ill afford rents which would make housing improvements profitable . |
| 28 | The fat men : were they less fat because they were smaller , and so you needed less stomach to appear fat ; or were they more fat , because they developed the same stomachs , but had even less frame to support them ? |
| 29 | But the rejoicing and the laughter which followed the tears were of equal importance , because they powered the erotic joy that was as important as the water falling from the sky . |
| 30 | It would certainly give a new twist to the arms race ; indeed some of Reagan 's advisers appeared to be recommending SDI precisely because they thought the Soviet economy would collapse under the strain of attempting to emulate it . |