Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] because [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was going out with this guy called John Colley whose relations were sort of minor gangsters in London and I went to work for them because they did n't mind my not being English . |
| 2 | I could n't bear that they should always pay for me because I did n't want them to know how awful Robert had become . |
| 3 | That happens to be all right for me because I do not have to commute regularly but it could be a consideration . |
| 4 | It did n't er it is a difficult for me because I do n't have the figures er but er Mr er my assistant who er er did do the detailed work , er tells me that it did n't provide as much traffic relief to the A sixty one as did a western relief . |
| 5 | Erm and you see people frequently charging across the middle or even to the right-hand side of them because they do n't believe that you know that that they have to you know er be observed and gone round and erm whatever . |
| 6 | He did n't have much finesse to do the things but erm and I think he used to sh he although I I got on all right with him , but some of the people working on the floor like the wardrobe people and that he used to they used to dislike him because he was but I would but you do find s I think perhaps he was a bit unsure of himself because I do n't think he was somebody who 'd had a had a tremendous education , otherwise he probably would n't have gone in on the on the construction side which was being a chippy or something at Shepherds Bush and so you know you often find people like that they have a bit of a chip on their shoulders do n't they you know , you know . |
| 7 | Then , you know , he testified in my father 's tax trial , and he really made an absolute ass of himself because he did n't know his geography of Washington . |
| 8 | He said you did n't he gone off of you because you did n't write it . |
| 9 | But he has no details of her because he did n't bring her in , he said … which was kind of him . ’ |
| 10 | It has a tang , so that youngsters particularly , quite , quite like the taste of it because they do n't taste anything all their taste buds |
| 11 | In America we met one young person who saw a picture of ours and told us he felt so happy in front of it because he did n't feel alone in the world any more . |
| 12 | erm I think it ca n't be bad for you because you do quite a lot of the same exercise as you 'd do in proper aerobics |
| 13 | In other words I wo n't say it 's non-threatening or does n't have any kind of value judgment behind it because I do n't think that can be true and if anybody is monitoring their classroom practice , it 's got to be threatening in some way , almost inevitably . |
| 14 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 15 | ‘ I do not know if you are so frank with me because you do not care how I react , or if it is honesty which prompts you . |
| 16 | He had come home on 30 March and , referring to Sutherland , had told her : ‘ That bastard had the cheek to lose the head with me because it did not work . |
| 17 | And if your child is dyslexic , reassure them that they are not the only child , there are other children who share this problem , that they in fact are not stupid , or mad — and quite often they think they are mad , they can understand what is wrong with them because they do n't really understand what they 're supposed to be doing . |
| 18 | And a lot of them have emotional problems ; I mean one of the girls I talked to here who 's dealing with calls says it 's difficult , you get some people who get very angry with you because you do n't have news for them . |
| 19 | Now I spend a bit more time with her because I do n't go out to work until later , before I was starting at seven . |
| 20 | Mary 's father was frosty with her because she did n't have an abortion , right up until she brought her son back from the hospital . |
| 21 | Sam found himself completely cut off by his own side of the family , who considered he had married beneath him ; while John had a furious row with him because he did not think Sam good enough for Marie . |
| 22 | Ten to one you 'll find that they hate the idea but are going along with it because they do n't want to be thought of as the oldest fuddy-duddy parents in town — little knowing that their consent is the only reason why other parents are being unnecessarily liberal . |
| 23 | Much to the amusement of two American girls who stayed with us because they did n't know what this phrase was I mean they could n't have sort it out in the first place of what it meant . |
| 24 | ‘ Leslie has always been disappointed in me because I did n't continue . |
| 25 | She 'd tried to keep the newspaper story hidden from her because she did n't want to discuss it until she 'd had more time to get her thoughts in order … but of course mother had found it and started questioning compulsively about abortion , what exactly was the law on it now , how did you get one , where did you go , what did it cost , things she must have heard Dorothy and her friends discussing a hundred times but which the newspaper report had triggered into today 's obsession . |
| 26 | Will the Prime Minister promise the House that no senior citizen , sick or disabled person need die from hypothermia or any illnesses resulting from it because they do not have the money to heat their homes ? |
| 27 | Elonex has no interest in it because we do n't see the need for it . ’ |
| 28 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 29 | ‘ Scotland should think about him because they do n't have players who can go past defenders . |
| 30 | ‘ They sat there holding hands , apologising to me because they did n't want to be any trouble . ’ |