Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not because I was made to be late , but I , I , I , I 'd , me mother had made me cos she said you got ta come home to your dinner and there was no buses there were trams in them days , but I 'd got to get into the town . |
| 2 | Somebody must have reported the meeting , because I was summoned to the priest-administrator 's room at the palace the next day for a tongue lashing . |
| 3 | ‘ Because I was intending to — and who knows where it might have led ? ’ |
| 4 | Then there was the resentment over the fur coat she was deprived of because I was sent to a fee-paying school . |
| 5 | By now my father and brother were dead , so I was rich , but I considered myself poor , because I was tied to a mad wife until death . ’ |
| 6 | As I was saying to you the other day , laddie , because I was aiming to be a fighting man I would n't get married . |
| 7 | I said I had to leave because I was going to dinner . |
| 8 | Because I was going to the hospital wing I did n't get taken up until about nine o'clock , so I was the last one . |
| 9 | They said I had to lie down for two hours because I was going to be groggy , but I thought Fred would be worried . |
| 10 | Or rather that is not , in the first instance , what I asked myself , because I was driven to the view — incorrectly — that there could be no link between the two crimes . |
| 11 | Just as Sgt Wilson 's thesis was channelled to me because I was known to be interested in research , so many police research departments now get allocated the task of reading the essays submitted by sergeants and inspectors for NEBS or DMS qualifications . |
| 12 | ‘ I was sacked because I was known to the local RUC as an ex-republican prisoner , ’ he said from Portlaoise Prison . |
| 13 | We love you because you were sent to us by Our Father . " |
| 14 | But you did n't die just because you were taken to hospital — unless you were old . |
| 15 | In that era , notes Forster , if you had ‘ Venetian ’ tendencies , you thought it was because you were meant to be a man and that there had been some mistake . |
| 16 | The two sets of carers who were not content with the institutionalisation decision were : the male friend of a single woman who said it had been a pleasure to visit her daily and help look after her ; after five months she was admitted to hospital under a guardianship order because she was felt to be at risk . |
| 17 | ‘ Was that because she was speaking to someone else ? ’ 'I do not know . ’ |
| 18 | I know all this because she was engaged to my brother . |
| 19 | Two medical practitioners , neither of whom previously knew the patient , recommended her detention in hospital because she was said to be a paranoid schizophrenic with signs of aggressive , overactive and irrational behaviour . |
| 20 | This kind of emphasis on the opposition between , rather than the complementary nature of , the active and contemplative lives was reflected in the patristic interpretation of the story of Martha and Mary ( Luke 10:38 — 42 ) in which Christ excuses Mary 's lack of active help in Martha 's household chores because she was listening to him , on the grounds that she was concentrating on that which was most essential . |
| 21 | She wanted to look good for Dane because she was responding to the age-old instinct of women everywhere who felt the need to dress up and be beautiful for their men . |
| 22 | Purification The mother had to be purified because she was considered to be unclean . |
| 23 | You 'd all decided to meet again the following week and she counted the days because she was longing to be with you again . |
| 24 | Mostly , he supposed , he was happy because she was going to be the most startling singer he had put on to the Hochhauser stage . |
| 25 | ‘ We succeeded because we were elected to the Lebanese parliament and we were able to take over from the Turks and French in their ministries . ’ |
| 26 | There seemed to be a great urgency to get married , to live in London and start a family because we were trying to be the same as everyone else . |
| 27 | Only a small minority ( 5 per cent ) of all temporary workers had taken such jobs because they were tied to a course of training , and most of these were young adults . |
| 28 | Many children heard the news before their parents because they were listening to schools programmes on the wireless . |
| 29 | When black youth did appear it was often because they were seen to be a problem . |
| 30 | The Japanese are reluctant , partly because they were asked to be contributors after the machine had been designed , rather than to be partners for the whole project . |