Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [verb] how [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we are called upon , as Astrid says , to sort of , you know ‘ this is n't working , can you fix it , because you know how it works ’ , and that 's fair enough , but I 'm not called on by somebody in the press to fix a typewriter . |
| 2 | ‘ Only he did n't leave his wife , so Marie O'Donnell returned to Ireland , and because she knew how it would be if it was known she had an illegitimate child she told everyone she was a widow . |
| 3 | ‘ Faye said the other day that she 's going to start a society for the protection of punching bags , because she knows how they feel ! ’ |
| 4 | In other words , we identify a particular event as the cause because we know how it could have made the effect happen , not because we know it happened before the effect . |
| 5 | He must have thought there was some likelihood of angels being there , because he describes how he put out his arms in the darkness and made a grab , at thin air as it turned out . |