Example sentences of "because [pron] could [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't dare return to the-place where I 'd killed him because I could easily arouse suspicion . |
| 2 | because I could n't speak English at all , I speak the , I could read a paper or a book , I du n no what is all about , but I used to get because you got on it for instant like mm |
| 3 | ‘ I went from feeling useless because I could n't get work to feeling defiant . |
| 4 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |
| 5 | Not because she could n't lose weight but because she enjoyed coming along for a weekly work-out session and it helped to keep her weight in check . |
| 6 | TRAGIC aerobics teacher Joanna Grenside faked her own dramatic kidnap because she could not face Christmas . |
| 7 | Is it not time that those pensioners , including the one who told me that she was keeping warm during the day by clutching a hot-water bottle because she could not afford heating bills , were given a decent state pension as of right , without the humiliation of a contributory test , which involves means-testing for those who are in greatest need ? |
| 8 | It was a long time before we recovered from the loss , and I vowed never to have another dog because we could never replace Sorrel . |
| 9 | Manjiku was the creature who wanted to be a woman ; the beast that stole children for his own because he could not give birth to them himself . |
| 10 | A MAN took an overdose because he could not face Christmas , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 11 | A commercial bank had turned down his application for a loan because he could not provide collateral and besides , the money he needed was ‘ too small ’ . |
| 12 | One central committee member , Ognjen Krstulovic , resigned because he could not accept responsibility for the implementation of the policy . |
| 13 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 14 | HEARTBROKEN husband Robin Hood killed himself because he could n't face life without his murdered wife ‘ Maid ’ Marion . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , what is wrong with him , ’ she tells me , ‘ is that because he could n't find heroin he used a substitute . |