Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] because [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got pregnant because you spent all my life filling my head with romantic ideas rather than giving me any practical advice . |
| 2 | Cami knickers and french knickers became popular because they did n't take much material and were economic in coupons . |
| 3 | Jason Donovan was also eleven , at school in Melbourne and also launching his acting career in Skyways , which he found exciting because it meant he could take some time off school . |
| 4 | We went into my room at last , with our arms round each other , and in the doorway I stopped dead because I 'd forgotten what Toby had said about John and for a second I thought I was in the wrong room . |
| 5 | ‘ They became alarmed because I had access to security force files of theirs , and all security force personnel through the central computer if I wished . |
| 6 | But when he and his family got back to their cabin they seemed upset because we had gone to so much trouble . ’ |
| 7 | The defendant 's mother became suspicious because she had overheard a conversation about drugs . |
| 8 | I got muddled because I thought that teacher , it 's just a psychology . |
| 9 | ( My mother left South Africa and went to Lesotho when Lesotho became independent because she had become really depressed with South Africa and she thought she would find a niche and peace there . ) |
| 10 | He used to say he got angry because he cared so much . |
| 11 | ‘ I pleaded guilty because I realised I was in breach of my contract and expected to be punished . |
| 12 | I felt upset because I wanted the baby . |
| 13 | Emmie felt guilty because she did think that . |
| 14 | In a way , he felt guilty because he 'd confessed to Zambia first . |
| 15 | Maybe they all felt OK because no-one had been shot in a park . |
| 16 | My first marriage , to Mandy , went wrong because we married too young . |
| 17 | After R. v. Samuel the police underwent a painful education , as a series of people charged with serious crimes on the basis of admissions went free because they had been wrongly denied access to a solicitor . |
| 18 | She wore jeans and a sweatshirt that night — and then felt foolish because she knew he would realise instantly why she was covering herself from head to toe . |
| 19 | Wickham suspected he looked dubious because she hurried on : ‘ Oh , I know you 're thinking I might not have noticed him at the bar . |
| 20 | ’ Van Gogh died penniless because nobody bought his paintings — they did n't think he was very good at the time . |
| 21 | You were glad when someone suggested that the butter or the jam should be cut up into rations even though you did see the hard selfishness in his eyes as he said it and felt sick because you knew that normally he was neither hard nor selfish . |
| 22 | ‘ I felt ashamed because we did n't work , ’ Bono tells me later . |
| 23 | I felt responsible because I encouraged him to be in the group in the first place , I persuaded him to stay when he wanted to go and yet in the end we asked him to leave , ’ says Gedge . |
| 24 | She laughed , and he felt proud because he had n't stuttered . |
| 25 | It was almost a physical pain and for a moment he felt shocked because it had been many years since the agony of losing Gerda . |
| 26 | It was a measure of Willi 's popularity that , even though his pre-production party was known about by nearly everyone who was anyone in Hochhauser , and even though the guest list was extremely small , no-one ever felt slighted because they had n't been invited . |
| 27 | I kept quiet because I wanted you to go on talking . |
| 28 | I felt frightened because I knew this was the Star Room where the Star Council met . |
| 29 | It 's only way you can get over erm tragedy I should say when he married quick because he got another compan for the life he locks himself inside er walls , you never even |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm Irish , ’ he said , and it sounded aggressive because he did n't want his voice to quiver . |