Example sentences of "because [pron] [modal v] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , that might suit me because I could wear my old rags and not attract attention . |
| 2 | On the other hand ( there is always another hand in these matters ) I would not claim that , because I could explicate my own novel line by line , that is all it could mean , and I am well aware of the danger of inhibiting the interpretive freedom of the reader by a premature display of my own , as it were , ‘ authorised ’ interpretation . |
| 3 | ‘ I wear a mask because nobody must know who that person is . |
| 4 | be okay and all of these would still get paid because you would get your full salary for six months . |
| 5 | special salad , there were no iceberg , he did n't have an iceberg in the shop I like me iceberg because you can eat it all ca n't you ? |
| 6 | ‘ She will not be upset because you will finish your small storm of weeping here and be composed before she sees you , ’ he ordered , tilting her wet face and looking down at her . |
| 7 | And because she 'll believe it all , other people will believe her . |
| 8 | She would be with us always , and I would n't have to say a word to her grandchildren because she would say them all . |
| 9 | This is easy , because she can edit her original definition as TO SQUARE SIDE . |
| 10 | It will be good business for Mercury , British Telecom and the Post Office , because we shall keep them busy when we are trying to sort out which tier of government we should be addressing our thoughts to on behalf of our constituents . |
| 11 | ‘ Guide dogs are trained not to pick up such morsels because they may eat something unpleasant or possibly even dangerous . |
| 12 | His main concern appeared to be that he did not want too many parents to be able to read it because they would find it attractive . |
| 13 | But this year it was much better because they 'd let them all in because it was raining were n't it ? |
| 14 | Yes , we 're in competition and we want to be able to say to our members do n't go to that trade union because they will put you all in one lump , go to this one because we 've got sections , because we look at our members with individual needs and please support this motion . |
| 15 | because they can employ their own and not . |
| 16 | the real old gardeners and I mean well every house had one because they used to grow their own vegetables did n't they ? |
| 17 | I hope Hendry 's brought his golf clubs because he 'll need them next week . ’ |
| 18 | They were slightly embarrassed that he had been left out , but had agreed at the time that there was no sense in phoning him at home because he would have nothing useful to say . |
| 19 | However , he could still find it difficult to recoup his joining fee if he could not find new members for the scheme , because he would find it difficult to sell the goods . |
| 20 | All that was easy to believe now , it was easy to imagine the drunkenness , and Timothy Gedge letting the facts slip out because he did n't care , because he 'd find it enjoyable , even better than going to a funeral . |
| 21 | But if I ever got caught out with the big guy in the skull mask and the big axe thing then I 'd probably ask to end up coming back as my son because he 'd have my amazing charm , dazzling character , obscene talent ( ? — Ed ) , and chiselled good looks ! ( and gift for talking utter bullshine ! — Ed ) . |
| 22 | Er a lot of courage here by Agnew because he can see his own player 's gon na go to kick the ball but he does n't flinch out of it , knows exactly what he 's gon na do . |
| 23 | However , because he can have his own detailed requirements incorporated in the project , the system is suitable for construction of most types of building . |
| 24 | I need my dream , I 've got to have it — like I had to have that fairy-and-goblin curtain material when I was about six and I thought I 'd die when Mum said No , we must have the blue flowery material because it would outlast my six-year-old fairy-and-goblin phase . |
| 25 | Constance was the only adult to whom she would dream of divulging Sam 's plot , since whether Constance approved or not , she would not be difficult about it : clearly , she did not approve , either because the act would be an invasion of property and privacy or because it would land them all in trouble . |
| 26 | I once heard a sermon in which the preacher defended atomic weapons on the ground that Satan would never use them because it would hasten his own destruction ! |
| 27 | The US has been trying for a decade to clinch the deal , not least because it would give its nuclear forces control of what is seen as the strategically vital Pacific zone and a new set of options if its Philippine naval and air bases are threatened . |
| 28 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ And you did n't want her to know about the letters because it would rake it all up again ? ’ |
| 30 | But at least two years because it would take us that time to furnish the house . |