Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [was/were] [adj] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tremayne 's own mood appeared to be a deepening depression over the evening 's finale , and I was sorry because he deserved to look back with enjoyment . |
| 2 | And I was happy because I was sure I would soon have three good friends . |
| 3 | Well he , he , they were on their way to Norwich but they stopped off at Ipswich for a lunch , you see , and er I had , I looked after them , so , so that it should n't interrupt the other girls behind the counter or , or the waiter who was looking after his regular customers in the dining room , you see , er and so I used to erm and once I had I remember there was six black doctors came in and er and I was glad because it was nice to move about and instead of sticking in the office typing and then going out all alone , you see , while the Manager was on the district , you see , I liked it and er anyway that was a long time ago . |
| 4 | They both seemed to have forgotten Jenna and she was glad because she could feel tears welling up inside , almost a feeling of panic . |
| 5 | And she was surprised because she meant it . |
| 6 | And I 'll say this now , they was in business there , nextdoor , and I knew them like that , they says any machinery come here and use it , and they 'd got shears and all that sort of thing , and with their help , you know , I had these four locks and did them and took them down in no time to m to er , to and they was flabbergasted because of the quickness of them , you know , and they says er we can always find you sommat to work if er this is the case . |
| 7 | His wife came in and banged the door and he was furious because it made the china rattle ; he said she just did n't understand . ’ |
| 8 | That 's what he called them , and he was worried because something big was coming up and it would get out of control . |
| 9 | It was a massive vehicle with a 3.3 litre diesel engine , and it was marvellous because we could park for the night where we happened to be . |
| 10 | Even for somebody who spoke French it was a mouthful , and it was tedious because it had to be repeated each time one spoke to a Corporal or Sergeant . |
| 11 | Sometimes he felt himself wince and it was strange because he could n't tell whether it was the needle or his memory . |
| 12 | I grew up in Lewisham , South East London , and it was awful because Dad was a bricklayer , and if the weather was bad , he did n't work . |
| 13 | She 'll rigid cos her pay stopped at one stage and it was wrong because she had n't been warned |
| 14 | And it was interesting because er , we were talking about propulsion , talking about all types of er mechanics and sciences , and the way they 'd write up a report at the end which is part of the English part of it , and one of the youngsters said to me , he said , can I go home Mr ? |
| 15 | And we it was fourth year when we done it and we 'd never been shown anything like that and it was interesting because it 's the sort of fact that you you never really think about |
| 16 | It was a great shot , funnily enough , but I was disappointed because I failed in my attempt to create history in my last match at Lord 's ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But I was fortunate because then Stoddard took over as a professionally run and profitable company and I 've spent 11 happy years with them . ’ |
| 18 | But I was surprised because the songs are so good that even when they 're getting massacred by cats and dogs or Germans or Russians they still stand up . |
| 19 | So she said seven days but she was right because she said twenty eight days . |
| 20 | Jamila said that her husband was a good man , he did n't beat her , but she was unhappy because she was never allowed out to visit her parents and brother and sister . |
| 21 | But she was lovely because the round face with the straight dyed-blonde hair , which fell over her forehead and into her eyes , was open . |
| 22 | But he was pleased because it showed she intended taking seriously the duties of a rector 's wife . |
| 23 | Palmer did not discover the paper until 1986 , but he was lucky because in his department at Brigham Young University in Utah was Steven Jones who had spent the previous four years doing custom-built experiments with muons , attempting to induce fusion in the lab . |
| 24 | The system appeared elitist but it was mass-inclusionary because bureaucratic rationality was , through the LDP , subject to constituency demands at the constituency level . |
| 25 | I ca n't think of his name now , but it was great because there was this really tough girl who wanted to hang around with me because this guy fancied me . |
| 26 | Well I know , but it was sad because in Gosport that was what keep most of them going , I mean like they said none of them have never been on the dole before , they 've all been there since they 've left school , there was a couple there |
| 27 | From a therapeutic aspect , penicillin was marvellous because it cured many dangerous bacterial infections , but it was tiresome because it was inactive by mouth ( it was destroyed by the acidity of the stomach contents ) , it acted for a very short time ( it was rapidly excreted by the kidneys ) and so was of little value unless given by injection at intervals of not longer than 3 hours , and because , after a time , the normal processes of evolution led to the appearance of resistant strains of the microbes which had previously been sensitive to penicillin . |
| 28 | We were fond of each other , but it was difficult because of Eddie , and your father … |
| 29 | but it was alright because I knew he was doing it did n't piss me off really . |