Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] because they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just I do n't really know much about them because they live quietly . ’ |
| 2 | Nobody has ever bothered much about them because they harm no one ( except the ants ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But when we 're dealing as we are in this case , with fraud , then clearly there has to be regulations , there has to be er primary legislation er so that was the point I 'm making but as I say , it 's not just me , it 's the stock exchange , the S I B , all of them believe that we need a single enforcement body to look at these matters and I do wish perhaps the minister does but the government must acc eople and a number of ople obviously with a number of traumas and a number of di exploit the different rules and regulations and to get through them because they know they are never going to be caught and the little chance of being prosecuted and even if they are prosecuted er then the chances of being convicted are remote and even if they are convicted I 'm afraid that the judicial shi system shows er that the worst they can expect is a few hours mowing the grass in front of an old folks home or perhaps a few months er in the country residence , albeit owned by Her Majesty . |
| 5 | It was worse for them because they had kept their child and had time to form a bond with it . ’ |
| 6 | Inwardly I had a sneaking admiration for them because they had been sure that they did n't like the Legion and so had acted directly and left . |
| 7 | ‘ I really do feel sorry for them because they know how hard their parents have worked to raise money for the computers , ’ she said . |
| 8 | The Italians have mae it work for them because they have been able to inject a comfortable , relaxed mood . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's worse for them because they blame themselves for having provided me with the financial means to take a plebeian job . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And , of course , that was something so different for me because they treated you like one of themselves . |
| 12 | And making a fuss of me because they knew that my stitches had burst . |
| 13 | You used to surprise some of them because they thought they 'd done it before you 'd notice . ’ |
| 14 | I think er , Committee ought just to say thanks for both of them , I , I mean this is n't the way with reference to peace elects them democratic , though they 're , I think both Mr and represent the County of Swindon now , and I 'm grateful to both of them because they took a , a , a weight off my personal shoulders , which was useful . |
| 15 | Moore said : ‘ If people get into wrong positions inadvertently , there will be such a desperate desire to get out of them because they need the ball , I think it could increase violence . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Some people do tend to run away from you , they 're afraid of you because they think you 're wild . |
| 18 | They wanted to get rid of her because they thought she was an interfering busybody . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | take penicillin and die of it because they have an allergic reaction . |
| 21 | You 're not required to know all that remember or indeed any of it because they have everything they need to know , particularly if they do the long tour , they have everything they need to know on the tour and everything they need to know about the furniture well pieces of furnitures . |
| 22 | because of recession , but as soon as er anything will change he , he said Billy said that he wants to , to get rid of it because they want to go buy an |
| 23 | and of course the insurance people would not pay out on either , wiped their hands of it because they reckoned it was nothing |
| 24 | The people in the Tate house were victims of themselves because they had all fallen into sadism and masochism and recorded it on video-tape . |
| 25 | Now , normally in this programme when we talk about womens ' magazines , people are inveighing against them because they carry various advertisements that they find offensive or exploitative , but are women 's magazines actually erm performing quite a useful job by filling in the gaps that that schools and parents are are failing to address ? |
| 26 | they would n't let her sit with them because they said oh well , she 's she 's you know , leave her with them , and it was that little lad |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Deciding that you want to go out with someone because they happen to fit into this year 's idea of what is good looking is stupid . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The ships come into it because they Produce profits for the group — the only subsidiary company which does . |