Example sentences of "because [pron] [adv] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No more because I then paid another thirty approximately for that two hundred and eighty nine for that that , that came to twenty seven and I had there were two items inside it , I forget what they are . |
| 2 | And he said well just get yourself home and tell your father that I want it paid for this time because I only replaced that glass last week , which he had |
| 3 | Och , aye , because I actually dropped twenty pound coming from the spooling to the job I 'm doing just now . |
| 4 | About 15,000 feet presumably someone called ‘ Tally Ho ! ’ because I suddenly saw three Ju88s , which were at the same height , slightly to my left , range about 1,000 yards , and heading away from Malta . |
| 5 | ‘ There is n't all that much because she soon fell asleep again but at least I 've got their names . |
| 6 | She would just lie awake half the night with her conscience pricking guiltily , and that would be a nuisance , because she really needed some sleep . |
| 7 | ‘ The sex object , ’ quipped Maria , a sweet clenching sensation assailing her loins as she reflected on the helplessness of her response to his torrid lovemaking , resentment rising a second later because she still lacked any semblance of control over their relationship . |
| 8 | ‘ Because she still sounded mad at me , and I thought you might try to dissuade me . |
| 9 | They say it was only a part of it , you know , because we only had half an hour , did n't we , there and then |
| 10 | I hated Vienna , because we now had several rooms and so I was further from the forest . |
| 11 | It was strange that she could see Simon so clearly , thought Isabel , because everything else seemed lost in a hazy mist . |
| 12 | And despite the wonderful climate , and being able to play Riviera whenever I wanted , I longed to see green fields and my folks and my friends , and hear the cricket scores on the radio , and escape from the constant pursuit of more money and better deals for the clients , who mostly did n't care anyway because they already had more money than they knew what to do with . ’ |
| 13 | Endill was sure she made tools because they never bought any but always had the ones they needed for digging and planting . |
| 14 | ( Hannah 's work on occupational pensions suggests that employers could seldom conspire , because they seldom had any idea of what they were doing in the area of pension policy . ) |
| 15 | In class terms the peasants were identified as part of the rural petty bourgeoisie : generally speaking , not members of the proletariat because they usually owned some means of production to support themselves . |
| 16 | I was the odd one out you see because everybody else had curly hair . |
| 17 | Please can you tell me the name of the director , because he also directed Such Good Friends , and I have n't been able to remember his name ? " |
| 18 | Beatty , on the other hand , was making $450,000 a picture by then and was shooting Bonnie and Clyde with Gene Hackman and Faye Dunaway which turned Beatty into a multi-millionaire overnight because he also prised some percentage points from the backers . |
| 19 | Dietl was known as the ‘ Butcher of Murmansk ’ because he allegedly sent thousands of German soldiers to certain death in the Arctic campaigns . |
| 20 | The pre-existence of matriliny was important for Engels because he wrongly believed that matriliny , as opposed to patriliny , was associated with communal corporate descent groups . |
| 21 | Gooch has been unwell for several weeks , playing in the first Test at Calcutta with a chest infection that should have ruled him out , missing the three-day match at Vishakhapatnam because he still felt weak , and then pulling out of the second Test at Madras after his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn . |
| 22 | Honecker had undergone surgery for a malignant kidney tumour on Jan. 10 and was briefly arrested upon leaving hospital on Jan. 29 , being released on Jan. 30 because he still needed medical attention . |
| 23 | Even if he was kissing her because he only felt sorry for her , she could pretend , could n't she ? |
| 24 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
| 25 | Because he always had long trousers that went over his boots , and they were you know , very wide so the boys would call him too long and too loose . |
| 26 | Edvard Munch , whom many art historians would describe as one of the greatest print-makers of the century , fails to qualify as ‘ blue-chip ’ , despite occasional high prices at auction , because he often used poor quality paper and the impressions are not always of the best quality . |
| 27 | Because it soon became apparent to Sarah , if not Peter , that this was what it was . |
| 28 | Being stationed next to the stage , Rousseau complained , its maître de musique could not manage the ensemble properly ; audible use of the baton was loud and frequent ; French music was doomed to this crude practice because it intrinsically lacked regular rhythm ( unlike Italian music ) . |
| 29 | She disliked losing her temper against her will because it rarely achieved useful results and symbolised impotence rather than strength : always better to channel anger than display it , she thought . |
| 30 | He put his huge right hand on her polished gold kneecaps , because it suddenly looked ridiculous lying around on the arm of a chair , and said , ’ No . ’ |