Example sentences of "[adv] because [pron] [verb] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd always had the nicest smile , open and boyish , but she 'd forgotten the way his hazel eyes sparkled with greenish lights , perhaps because she 'd never seen him so tanned before . |
| 2 | Men fear rejection , disdain and loneliness only because they have never experienced them or if they have experienced them , they have felt only the normal reactions of despair and unhappiness . |
| 3 | Perhaps this was only because he had never had reason to he until he met Mr Evans , but he was n't afraid of him , even after that first , dreadful night , because Mr Evans had false teeth that clicked when he talked . |
| 4 | ‘ Only because you 've never told me , ’ said Camille . |
| 5 | That would be a very great challenge for us to do , especially because we have never had the chance before to think about that , but er now I think that could be , er could become reality and I 'm quite sure that er there are teachers from that part of Germany who would like to , to work in your country ; maybe er English teachers er from East Germany teaching the German language here , that 's one thing I could imagine . |
| 6 | Just because she 's never had a proper job . |
| 7 | The small Year Niner usually looks a bit blank — possibly because she has never considered the possibility of either heaven OR hell lying at the foot of the ropes in the sports hall — and responds with a vague , ‘ Uh ? ’ |
| 8 | This is usually because they 've never thought much about Christianity and the only opinions that they have got are ones that they 've picked up from their parent(s) or the TV . |
| 9 | Unlike the others who appear and disappear as fashion and progress dictate , children occupy a permanent place in the list partly because of their continuing presence as a potential sub-class , partly because they have never protested and mainly because it is assumed that in favourable circumstances they will become men and therefore require attention . |
| 10 | Maggie had never bothered to resist their reasoning , and she folded her clothes partly from the natural instinct of obedience , and partly because she had never been entirely sure that these external appendages did indeed belong to her , Maggie Petherington , or if perhaps they were loans from the mysterious outer world ; loans that would doubtless be called in some day . |
| 11 | Thank goodness he had never rushed into anything-though that was partly because he had never found the woman he wanted to rush into anything with . |
| 12 | I 've never understood it — probably because I 've never really understood her . ’ |
| 13 | Sometimes parents can not answer the questions clearly because they have never thought of observing their child 's behaviour so closely . |
| 14 | I have said nothing to anyone so far because I have never been quite sure how much it might affect Mr. Andrew . |
| 15 | It was quite amazing really because we 'd never seen any of these things before . |
| 16 | If I sometimes recognized this , I blamed my Aunt Lilian who had brought me up to give too much importance to careers and causes and things of the mind , simply because she had never known , herself , any of the pleasures of the body , and had , as a result , made me feel guilty now . |
| 17 | For the devout Christian , there has been no need to reconcile fact and faith , history and theology , simply because he has never had any reason to believe that a distinction between them might exist . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was simply because I 've never fawned or flattered her . |
| 19 | Er I 've never had any dwindling intellectual powers er simply because I 've never had any intellectual powers in the first place , so I would agree with him that in all cases I find dealing with er matters of a er er er er of , of legislation er en enormously complex . |
| 20 | I know I think we 've actually shot ourselves in the foot here because I 've never known anything like it . |
| 21 | It just does n't seem convincing to me maybe because I 've never seen it done . |
| 22 | I ca n't fall in love with you again because I 've never been out of love with you ! ’ |
| 23 | But all our tender young ladies can be exposed to him quite happily because he has never been caught . |