Example sentences of "[prep] i because they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sitting in the train , with a Sunday paper which I 'd automatically bought lying unopened on my knee , I felt a sense of relief at being away from him , at being surrounded by a lot of impersonal uncaring strangers who could see nothing different about me because they 'd never seen me before last night . |
| 2 | And , of course , that was something so different for me because they treated you like one of themselves . |
| 3 | And making a fuss of me because they knew that my stitches had burst . |
| 4 | ‘ They sat there holding hands , apologising to me because they did n't want to be any trouble . ’ |
| 5 | They asked me to come along and I thought I would because I thought children might respond more to me because they recognise me from television . |