Example sentences of "because [pron] [vb past] it [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was removed , apparently because someone thought it might become the butt of jokes . |
| 2 | I entered it because I thought it would increase my confidence ; once you 've walked down a catwalk in a swimsuit , you can face most things . |
| 3 | All those years of possible double jacquard knitting missed , because I thought it would be too difficult ! |
| 4 | I wanted to change my name , because I thought it would be glamorous to be called Rudi Kesselreicher or Auberon de Hautevilliers . |
| 5 | I persuaded her to come on this course because I thought it would be a change for us both . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You know , I gave her that room to herself when she came to us , because I thought it would be better , and she treated me like a servant — well , you saw , did n't you ? — and when she 'd got all the fun and sense of power out of that little game she started coming down with us . |
| 7 | I wanted to let you know of this initiative because I thought it might be possible to : |
| 8 | ‘ I offered you brandy because I thought it might steady your nerves . ’ |
| 9 | We did n't live together because I felt it would be years before I 'd be reasonable company for another human being . |
| 10 | I lit another cigarette from the stub of the first ( unheard-of for me ) — not because I wanted it but because I felt it might give an illusion of poise to walk into the Presence with a cigarette dangling carelessly from my lips . |
| 11 | Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy , for example , was associated with the suffrage movement , Butler 's campaign against the CD Acts , and the campaign for the Married Women 's Property Acts , while Millicent Fawcett , though withholding public support for Butler because she feared it would bring the suffrage movement into disrepute , in fact wholeheartedly approved of her work . |
| 12 | So she declined , then immediately regretted it , because she realised it might have pleased him , made them complicit together . |
| 13 | Mary wrote her life story as a therapy for herself , and also because she felt it might help others caught up , directly or indirectly , in the occult . |
| 14 | Tom 's mother was highly critical of the way the mainstream school was handling him but agreed to the assessment because she felt it might help him . |
| 15 | This was the second disappointment for my mother , who prided herself on her own intelligence and wanted her children to succeed academically , because she felt it would be the only way we could be successful in life , there being no money at home . |
| 16 | For ten years , Anne who ran a G P practice from her home at Wallasey , tried to obstruct her daughter taking cannabis because she thought it would do her harm . |
| 17 | Julia closed her eyes , partly because that was a question she did not want to answer and partly because she thought it might help to stop her flinging her arms around his neck and saying , kiss me , oh please kiss me . |
| 18 | It is also the year when Jim Bob Morrison will apologetically say : ‘ We 're only doing this because we thought it would be funny … once ! |
| 19 | We — we asked her , sir , because we thought it would be — be awfully jolly , sir , to have her with us . ’ |
| 20 | We were originally going to do two shows at Knebworth , but we had to cancel one because they figured it would be too hard — we could n't get the trucks there on time and get the show going when they wanted to do it . |
| 21 | Most students liked to talk a lot because they thought it would impress the professors . |
| 22 | The trouble was , although they 'd got me to do it — maybe because they knew it would save them money , or maybe because you ca n't get that kind of work done by your usual process shop — I did n't know how to do colour separations . |
| 23 | I knew MPs who could n't sleep at night because they were going through lobbies voting against their consciences for the Gulf war — to kill 100,000 people — because they believed it would help a Labour victory . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , so old Wilson used to tell us that lots of men opposed it because they felt it would lead to women in trousers sitting in pubs drinking pints of bitter . |
| 25 | He had forbidden the two girls to attend the Requiem Mass because he said it would upset them too much . |
| 26 | A planning inspector rejected plans to build a £3m private clinic because he believed it would create traffic chaos and disturb NHS hospital patients . |
| 27 | Keir Hardie favoured the general strike , not as an instrument of class struggle and revolution , but because he believed it could make a valuable contribution to maintaining the peace of bourgeois Europe . |
| 28 | Was it because he had n't spotted it , or because he felt it would be dishonest to do so , or because he never expected criticism ? |
| 29 | Perhaps Wiener left this book unpublished because he felt it would start too many battles . |
| 30 | He asked if I had enough of those for a whole album , because he felt it would make quite an original debut , to do only music taken from other instruments , rather than something from the standard guitar repertoire . |