Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [vb past] to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been a long summer holiday because I managed to be there both for the haymaking and the harvest . |
| 2 | ‘ I had to play bigger points from the back of the court because I had to be more relaxed because I was worried about what I had done to myself , ’ he said . |
| 3 | I was still under-housemaid , because you had to be very clever to be a head housemaid or head still-room maid ; and I said : |
| 4 | And this was not simply because she wished to be above reproach : it was also because , nearing her time , she found the eight-year-old boy exhausting . |
| 5 | That mix-up caused us serious problems for the rest of the campaign because we had to be constantly reassuring the media that we would get them good positions . |
| 6 | And I thought it was because we seemed to be so much on the same wavelength . |
| 7 | We wer were there because we wanted to be there . |
| 8 | Because they continued to be economically independent , these working older people , both men and women , were often remembered as strong characters , like the Lancashire shopkeeping grandmother , a ‘ powerful personality ’ who was without any doubt ‘ boss of the concern ’ , or the old North Welsh woman who ‘ was doing all the cobbling for the neighbours in Berthengam , and … they were done by her well . ’ |
| 9 | It is , of course , very easy to pay too much attention to the famous names in Nonconformity , partially because of their importance , partially because information about them is more readily available and partially because they tended to be more involved in politics . |
| 10 | Stuart Pearce and Chris Waddle may have been chosen to take the vital 1990 World Cup semi-final penalties because they appeared to be just the sort of level-headed British , team players that would n't miss . |
| 11 | She walked slowly round with him , talking about Magnus because he seemed to be mentally elsewhere . |
| 12 | There was culatello , part of the pig 's bottom — this was difficult to produce because it had to be carefully matured , and was correspondingly expensive . |