Example sentences of "[verb] because she [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Purification The mother had to be purified because she was considered to be unclean . |
| 2 | Mandy had come because she was worried about her parents and she did n't know who else to turn to . |
| 3 | Someone who is poorly integrated — say because she is living and working away from friends and kin — will have lower scores , because her ‘ vernacular ’ is not being reinforced . |
| 4 | In a way , she was greater than you let me know because she was approachable too . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The marriage will survive because she is very strong . |
| 6 | But Phillip Chubb is in our group And he wants to be Robin Hood And Ann Boot is sulking because she 's not with her friend And I do n't see why I should be wood . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's no good thinking she 's going to come because she 's not , ’ called out Kraal from his shelter between bites at his new food . |
| 8 | She wo n't be able to come because she 's up to her eyes |
| 9 | She confirmed that she had resigned because she was expected to work five days a week instead of the three initially agreed . |
| 10 | Gorman , 61 — MP for Billericay in Essex — did not appear because she was at the Tory conference in Brighton . |
| 11 | I 'm convinced Alison was shot because she was white but she had no power in constructing the society they were making a statement against . ’ |
| 12 | Michael Johnson said he believed his daughter , Nicola Fuller , 27 , had been shot because she was a ‘ totally innocent ’ witness of the murder of her husband Harry , 45 . |
| 13 | She said , between sobs that seemed to tear her chest open , something that sounded like , ‘ All my fault He knew it could n't be that because it did n't make sense but there was no point in asking her what she had said because she was crying too hard She cried and cried and Nick sat and watched . |
| 14 | She resists being fed because she is afraid that she will swell up and become too big for her coffin . |
| 15 | If the woman forthwith submits because she is terrified , would this be rape or would the threat be regarded as insufficiently immediate ? |
| 16 | I think she just assumed because she was coming down here with her job |
| 17 | Alice , playing her violin at Holborn station , took it for granted , she did not even have to think about it , that the man playing the flute beside her had invited her to play because she was beautiful . |
| 18 | When Clemence had gone into hospital to have Emmie , she had cried because she was left alone with him . |
| 19 | A man I do not wish to write for wants me to go to Vientiane , where virgins are $10 a go , and a woman I do wish to write for says it would never work because she is emotionally involved with me . |
| 20 | ‘ It was your — ’ He cut off his own words abruptly and stared at her woodenly as if frustrated because she was right . |
| 21 | She , she did n't mind because she 's winking and I thought ah is n't that nice of her , it is really because she organised it all and she do n't know me so that was very kind of her did n't you think so Bet ? |
| 22 | She was teasing him as if he were one of the little ones but he did n't mind because she was looking happy again . |
| 23 | Sean says that , ironically , the accident happened because she was trying to live down her reputation as a ‘ difficult actress ’ . |
| 24 | Critical illness , you 've got carry on paying the premiums , with no lump sum paid on living assur , er , on life assurance , the living expenses are likely to increase , because you may have er , somebody who 's disabled , paralysed or whatever , there 's no chance of the widow returning to work because she 's looking after person who 's er , ill , and obviously she ca n't remarry because she 's not widowed at this point . |
| 25 | She only escaped because she was ill at the time and had remained behind . |
| 26 | Now I know that 's a lie , and she only stays because she 's afraid for me and my wife . |
| 27 | Workmen on the site had tried to catch the under-nourished dog , but had n't managed to get anywhere near her — they all thought that she must have been very badly abused because she was so terrified of people . |
| 28 | At the time Peter supposed she was either a connoisseur of funerals or a casual visitor who , finding herself in the middle of the funeral , had stayed because she was too embarrassed to leave . |
| 29 | But she had to leave because she was a bit highly strung ; and of course you know Virginia herself was . |
| 30 | So called because she was found crying in a patch of nettles when she was just 3 weeks old . |