Example sentences of "because [prep] what [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irene Schwidurski said : ‘ They come and tell us their stories of the weekend ; or they come because of what they saw of it on ( Western ) TV . |
| 2 | The older , rusticated students were moved by appeals to their sense of national duty ( as well as by threats ) , while the younger students wished to revive anti-Japanese feeling because of what they perceived as the ‘ second Japanese invasion ’ . |
| 3 | This , bu but is n't that only because of what they learnt from |
| 4 | During the case of the nine children who were taken into care in February 1991 , one long-standing member of the Panel resigned because of what she saw as the deterioration in the Children 's Panel Hearing system in Orkney since the suspension of Mrs Kemp . |
| 5 | He now had reasons beyond his own inclinations to support Israel because of what he saw as the growing global challenge by the Soviet Union , most immediately felt in Vietnam . |
| 6 | Poppy seeds sprinkled on bread as a flavouring have a disconcerting tendency to react chemically in the same way as the extract of the opium poppy , so that a worker could be mistaken for a heroin user because of what he ate for breakfast . |
| 7 | And charitably she added : ‘ To this day , I do n't know if it was because of what he looked like or because of what I looked like . ’ |
| 8 | All these groups can think that Mr Clinton is their man because of what he said during the mesmerising presidential campaign of 1992 . |
| 9 | And charitably she added : ‘ To this day , I do n't know if it was because of what he looked like or because of what I looked like . ’ |
| 10 | He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time . |
| 11 | The Keitel thing was different , however , because of what it led to . |