Example sentences of "because [pers pn] was very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I was very much in pain . |
| 2 | ‘ But it was painful , because I was very unpredictable . |
| 3 | To tell my story : because I was very conscious that out of the static situation of the servant being the one who was menacing the Judge I had to make an ongoing story . |
| 4 | In my teens I had lived precariously on the lip of first class rugby by virtue of knowing every trick in the canon , evil and otherwise , by being a bad bad loser , but chiefly and perhaps only because I was very nippy off the mark . |
| 5 | children because I was very happy , and very healthy and I would have liked , loved to have shared that with with the lady over there ! |
| 6 | I can understand that fear because I was very frightened at first , I thought I 'd infected my husband and children . |
| 7 | Well this provided some very interesting information I think , because I was very surprised the degree to which men were involved in decisions about what to put in the home and had very strong opinions about quite small details of colour and this kind of thing as to what went into the home . |
| 8 | Dona change a lot more than Anna did because she was very impulsive and impressionable . |
| 9 | About what 's happening to the rest of because she was very maternal she was m she was our mam . |
| 10 | I remember because he was very proud of it . |
| 11 | Perhaps that was because he was very dark round the chin and lower cheeks . |
| 12 | At the Pessarane Behesht camp the young man had been known as Matchsticks because he was very tall and thin , with long monkey arms which he moved in an uncoordinated fashion that amused his comrades . |
| 13 | ‘ Artful ’ because he was very clever at getting what he wanted ; and ‘ Dodger ’ because he was very good at not getting caught when he did something wrong . |
| 14 | But ‘ the room was very dark and Colonel North was sort of spotlighted because he was very close to the slides . ’ |
| 15 | Zacchaeus was a tax-collector and was very unpopular with the Jews , not only because he worked for the Romans but also because he was very rich through cheating people , as he himself admitted ( Luke 19:8 ) . |
| 16 | His classmates liked him because he was very friendly and outgoing and liked pranks but teachers do n't usually like the class jester . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Artful ’ because he was very clever at getting what he wanted ; and ‘ Dodger ’ because he was very good at not getting caught when he did something wrong . |
| 18 | A veterinary is what Uncle Tommy might have been if there had been the money to send him away to train , because he was very good with animals . |
| 19 | He cites the example shown by Viscount Montgomery in World War N. Laing , who fought under the famous military leader , recalls that the troops always had great confidence in him because he was very visible . |
| 20 | And and Bob did it here in Bishop 's Stortford but I do n't know whether he 's still I think he still does it because he was very committed . |
| 21 | The answer was always no — understandably enough , it seemed , in Leverrier 's case , because he was very reserved , ‘ too serious ’ as one master put it , tapping his head . |
| 22 | I enjoyed teaching Bauer , because he was an intelligent pupil , because there was a gentle air about him , and because he was very kind to my parents . |
| 23 | In interviews though , I said I was on the dole because it was very trendy at the time to be on the dole as far as the music press was concerned . |
| 24 | So we did n't buy very , little utility furniture , the only utility furniture we 've got is , it used to be a bedroom suite up in that second bedroom , we 've still got the bed of that , that was utility , but had we been in the market we would of bought utility because it was very good , some of it was really good if you looked around and erm , you know , choose your furniture , it was very good |
| 25 | Charles felt he must have heard Steen being interviewed at some stage on radio or television , because it was very familiar . |
| 26 | And er we used to make about six trips with a two wheeled trolley from Station to his house , two boys 'd do this job because it was very heavy work you know . |
| 27 | It was a shame , because it was very interesting . |
| 28 | If a very serious offence was reported , the Detective Inspector was , well he used to go to deal with it personally because it was very important . |
| 29 | Indeed , the style has its own charm , as when Whitelocke comments after the quaker , William Penn , had preached in his study that the congregation , although substantial , was ‘ the fewer because it was very wet ’ . |
| 30 | This fellow went up to a chap ( you could not tell who were NCOs or who were officers ) who was just resting because it was very hard work and we were working under pressure , and said sharply : " What is the trouble with you , have you run out of sandbags ? " |