Example sentences of "[pers pn] because they [vb base] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , if you 're married to somebody for forty years and they get fat , you do n't just divorce them because they get fat . |
| 2 | Advertisers use them because they ensure sales . |
| 3 | She states in an initial survey of the various theories of metaphor that those of most philosophers are of little interest to her because they treat metaphor from the point of view of its semantic content , ignoring the way it functions linguistically ( 1955a:45 , 1958a:15 ) . |
| 4 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 5 | Even if an NHS trust can be demonstrated to be in the interests of patients to reduce waiting lists and provide a better quality of service , they would reject it because they put politics before patients . |
| 6 | Perhaps the former are slower ; or perhaps they are doing it because they want people to say they are working hard . |
| 7 | Of course , whether people are refused credit because of their probable inability to repay , or whether they do not apply for it because they expect refusal on the same grounds , the results are the same . |
| 8 | The ships come into it because they Produce profits for the group — the only subsidiary company which does . |