Example sentences of "[noun] because [pers pn] thought that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her baby 's father was quite a bit older than she , twenty-six , and wanted her to have the baby because he thought that having mumps had made him sterile . |
| 2 | Then I hugged her again and pushed her through the door because I thought that if it lasted any longer I would cry . |
| 3 | At that time the Conservative party voted against the Bill because we thought that it was entirely wrong . |
| 4 | And I think erm the article itself erm s says in , in the , the first part it , it seems to be written in a very sort of erm very pro-peasant style , it 's like a justification of things that are happening , he s says that the reasons for the , the peasant movement were the exact opposite of what the gentry in Hankow and Changchun were saying erm that the , that the Party , that the revolutionary authorities had , had taken wrong measures because they thought that the reasons for these movements were , were otherwise and these we they were considered detrimental so they had to change these , these er original wrong meas measures to benefit the future of the revolution . |
| 5 | He said he did n't bring the children because he thought that we were too old for them . |
| 6 | I failed to declare Dr Neil Caldwell 's motoring convictions because I thought that they were ‘ fixed penalty ’ offences . |
| 7 | Some deputies had voted against an Anglo-French expedition because they thought that Egypt was a distraction from the proper concern of a French government over the lost provinces ; other Frenchmen already envisaged an understanding with Russia . |