Example sentences of "[noun pl] because they [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some women prefer seeing make gynaecologists because they find them more authoritative . ’ |
| 2 | Many electors undoubtedly withheld votes from some of its constituency candidates because they judged them sure to be defeated . |
| 3 | They would have nothing to do with recognised ‘ sinners ’ such as tax-collectors because they considered them to be immoral . |
| 4 | As people act on things because they want them — the child wants a teddy bear , or wants something to eat — they begin to gain a sense of themselves as distinct from those objects . |
| 5 | Project teams might resent policy decisions of senior managers because they believe them to be inappropriate to the problems of the organisation ; line managers might resent ‘ free- wheeling ’ ‘ undisciplined ’ members of project teams . |
| 6 | He hated the Communists because they nicked his family 's bit of land and he hated the Germans because they treated them like pigs , ’ says Peter Solowka . |
| 7 | Yet that person with AD may be ‘ positioned ’ differently , both by themselves and others , if they avoid the games because they perceive them as a mindless waste of time and prefer to go for a walk instead . |
| 8 | They discovered that people in poor countries persisted in having so many children because they wanted them . |
| 9 | So many people visit the countryside and pick wild flowers because they find them pretty , only to have those flowers wilt and die long before they can be arranged in a vase . |