Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] because you [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been suggested that you lost your teaching job not just because you wrote ‘ The Dark ’ but because you married a ‘ foreign ’ woman in a registry office . |
| 2 | ‘ You did n't really think I 'd run away just because you tore up a few of my clothes , did you ? ’ |
| 3 | Looking to her for comfort was like looking through a drawer for something which you knew was not there because you had looked so often before : you knew what was there — in painful and tedious detail — but there was nothing that you wanted . |
| 4 | ‘ You turned up here because you thought I was about to inherit enough money to stage your movie comeback ! ’ |
| 5 | But of course I had to back off because you pulled out of it , and started fighting again . ’ |
| 6 | And you did pretty well because you got a penny for every shilling 's worth you sold . |