Example sentences of "because [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She deserved it , she 'd been tormenting me for weeks , calling me Comic Stripper because I told better jokes than she did . |
| 2 | I then broke away because I saw two fighters above on the port side . |
| 3 | ‘ It was n't because I saw some guy and said , ‘ Hey , he gets a lot of girls , ’ or I saw some guy and said , ‘ Man , I want to be that guy , ’ because there 's no-one on earth I want to be . |
| 4 | I set off again , maintaining for some reason — perhaps because I expected further farm creatures to wander across my path — my slow speed of before . |
| 5 | If you 're here because I said certain things about you after the race , you can sod off back south right now . ’ |
| 6 | Sadly much of the animosity generated about Cochrane and Bennett originated from within No 5 Group and a great deal I was able to counter before it reached tap-room levels , I never felt I was running with the fox because I had great feeling and admiration for both these Olympian " gores , in fact , Cochrane invited me to move to No 5 Group with him when he left No 3 Group , but I declined as I was in mid-tour . |
| 7 | Mum was getting very panicky at 8.30 am because I had one sock on , a jumper round the wrong way and my shirt collar in a mess . |
| 8 | And that 's only because I had good teachers — I do n't think that I have any special superhuman gift for it . ’ |
| 9 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |
| 10 | It was a problem to get the camera set up , because I had two classes , one before the other , I had to think about putting it up there and the set up . |
| 11 | It 's not because I had Christian parents , it 's not because I 'd some advantage over you , or you had some advantage over me , it is all of God 's graciousness , it is all of God 's giving ! |
| 12 | But what er , I said , told Pete because I had another call when you were at lunch I think and erm he said he 'd heard rumours that we were looking for somebody . |
| 13 | She hates me because I am beautiful , and she is not ; because I had three husbands , and she never married . |
| 14 | When I was very young — about 5 years old — I wanted to be a pilot because I had this girlfriend who was going to be a stewardess . |
| 15 | But I chose to do the instrumental album , even though it was a lot smaller scale , because I had more control . |
| 16 | Well I rang them up yesterday because I got two cheques left . |
| 17 | It 's not because I had Christian parents , it 's not because I 'd some advantage over you , or you had some advantage over me , it is all of God 's graciousness , it is all of God 's giving ! |
| 18 | ‘ I felt nervous in the second half , because I knew one mistake could cost the game . |
| 19 | I got muddled because I thought that teacher , it 's just a psychology . |
| 20 | Then why were you so mad with me because I made those arrangements ? ’ |
| 21 | it 's my go because I took this card . |
| 22 | It was n't that expensive , either , my childhood , because I spent seven years of it with my mum 's sister in the States . |
| 23 | ‘ My position was one of timid and humble listener … ’ said the Spanish painter Remedios Varo , speaking for many of her Surrealist sisters , ‘ I was together with them because I felt certain affinity ’ . |
| 24 | I linked both books to the theme of ‘ Outsiders ’ , not because of the title but because I felt both books told the story of two lives lived on the edge of society . |
| 25 | ‘ Simply because I felt some responsibility for you in Bruges , ’ Luke replied evenly . |
| 26 | Yeah well I was only in Gwindy for three years , then I went to Lewis Girls because I lived this end of I had to go to I loved Gwindy school . |
| 27 | Chairman Mao insisted on re-education : ‘ He said that despite our intellectual development , we still had dirty minds which must be cleansed by contact with true working classes — lucky again , because I learned much folk music from my colleagues . |
| 28 | Because I found historical films about men on horseback so moving I was pleased when my then wife , Jenni , set to writing a book about the wild west . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've sold out , lock , stock , and barrel — particularly barrel — because I hated that pub , ’ he explained . |
| 30 | This , he explains , was ‘ partly because I used four-letter words in front of the Prime Minister . ’ |