Example sentences of "[pers pn] because [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am his because he created me ! |
| 2 | I did n't tell you because I knew we 'd have a scene like this and I do n't like it . |
| 3 | I was scared to death when I married you because I knew I would n't be able to be the kind of wife you needed . |
| 4 | ‘ Look , Dorothy , I hired you because I thought you might shake the place up a bit , so if you are unhappy here , that 's at least partly my fault . |
| 5 | I was only teasing you because I thought you were just like the rest of them . |
| 6 | go and help you because I thought you know you might have a natter with him or something |
| 7 | But Peter said to him , may your silver perish with you because you thought you could obtain the gift of God without mo , with money ! |
| 8 | She would not return to you because you believed her to be a fallen woman , and nothing she could say would convince you otherwise . ’ |
| 9 | No I 'm only phoning you because you phoned I 'm only phoning because you ph yeah yeah no no we 've been here all the time and the phone did n't ring once well |
| 10 | " I know how you came by your money , Harry Pascoe , and I know that Sam was only in with you because you gave him no alternative . |
| 11 | Victoria said , ‘ And why he asked me not to call him uncle in front of you because it made him sound old ! ’ |
| 12 | But , but I said but , but that thing Trem , Trem like when she said to me do n't tell you but I told you because it concerned us |
| 13 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 14 | She said she because I left it to you in case you wanted to spit in the sink she goes oh I did n't last night , so I never brought it up alright ? |
| 15 | of those people — 361,000 — have their forms returned to them because they filled them in incorrectly . |
| 16 | You used to surprise some of them because they thought they 'd done it before you 'd notice . ’ |
| 17 | The more able in the group felt they ‘ could n't tell us anything we do n't already know ’ or they were ‘ depressing ’ , while the remainder said that they did not like them because they made them feel inadequate . |
| 18 | I bought them because they had I bought them oh I think it was when I went with Val to Kessler long weekend |
| 19 | Jews despised and hated Gentiles : despised them because they did not belong to the elect ; and hated them because they lorded it over God 's chosen people . |
| 20 | For the O level people and those who just wanted to work , mucking around was seen to be unfair both to them because it held them back and to the teachers : here they interpret ‘ mucking about ’ wholly within the official theory of schooling . |
| 21 | To tell you the truth , before I went to prison I used to meet people who had been to prison and I did n't want to talk to them because I thought they were funny . |
| 22 | Although his aunts had always been kind to him , Frankie tried his best not to like them because he knew they were only pretending to be nice . |
| 23 | He found that Turner by 1833 was painting trees unknown to any botanist ; probably he painted them because he saw them that way ; and indeed with the help of a lens the lecturer could turn a picture of a common tree into a Turner tree for the audience to see for themselves . |
| 24 | He still had relatives in Newcastle , but had been unable to visit them because he believed he would be arrested . |
| 25 | As far as I could ever determine , he really did do that — he actually sat down and wrote a song for them because he liked them and did n't want them to go away . |
| 26 | Every one of them , he said , lost him money every year ; he kept them because he liked them , and because he had no children and could afford to indulge his old age . |
| 27 | Though these men were perfectly acceptable to Theodore , Wilfrid is said to have declared himself unable to serve God in unity with them because he regarded them as strangers to the Catholic Church ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 30 ) . |
| 28 | Nobody wanted to be cruel enough to hurt me because they thought I was so vulnerable at that time and I really wish I 'd been told that I looked disgusting ! |
| 29 | And , of course , that was something so different for me because they treated you like one of themselves . |
| 30 | Working part of lunchtime had a slight advantage for me because it meant I now had a bit more time to load the container rail set . |