Example sentences of "because if [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , ‘ For God 's sake , Desmond , hire her a television , ’ but he said no because we 're not well off , not well off at all , and we 're having to keep her , she has n't offered a penny , not that we 'd accept of course , and anyway Desmond said there was n't any point because if we got her a television she 'd think of something else , want to play cards or something , and that would be worse — and he 's right , it would , because a game of bridge with her is like the cold war all over again . ’ |
| 2 | POWERS — because IF WE LET THEM they really DO have the power to hurt us and damage our lives . |
| 3 | because if we told them that |
| 4 | And then the thing in small print so we we because if we do it on the company 's headed notepaper , all we 'll manage ah per photocopy is one sheet . |
| 5 | and there 's less chance of them getting lost because if we send it over to Monkland and it comes back here , it goes to Doctor , you know how he 's all over the place , |
| 6 | Because if we feed them bullshit , they 'll think bullshit . |
| 7 | ‘ I say to people to come and see Ireland for themselves because if they come they 'll never want to leave — like others who have been here from the North-East of England . |
| 8 | Because if they kill him , how can they ever say that you 're not the real King ? |
| 9 | Put up with what 's going on , because the reality is , there 's nobody in Northern Ireland prepared to stand up now and give evidence in open court , because if they do they 're dead before the week is done . |
| 10 | That , that well helps the er poor people , cos a lot of the poor people do n't near enough pay tax now because if they do they only have to pay twenty P |
| 11 | Employees are scared to enforce their rights because if they did they would be unfairly dismissed . |
| 12 | They wo n't Brenda because if they did I would be opening the window or door and telling them exactly their fortune . |
| 13 | people have been treated quicker , so that per cent no its not how can they say no its not ? , they would n't lie because if they lie they 'd get really done would n't they ? |
| 14 | The last thing she could afford to do was cry , because if she started she might never stop . |
| 15 | On the other hand , she did not feel that she could refuse him , because if she refused him , by what right and for what purpose had she gone there in the first place ? |
| 16 | In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury . |
| 17 | Because if you remember we wrote to the Department of Environment putting our views forward , when the commission was just about to get . |
| 18 | Which you know is an advantage in other ways as well I think , because if you know she 's being paid scale two you know other responsibility comes with it as well |
| 19 | Push the rudder down , prepare everything because if you get it wrong you 'll be straight back on the beach again and then climb in and sail away . |
| 20 | Because if you put it up front first , what do we now discuss everything around ? |
| 21 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 22 | I soon learned to hide it because if you left it in the dining room or by your place somebody else would take it . |
| 23 | ‘ You ca n't go down again because if you do you 'll be guzzled up at once . |
| 24 | What I 'd say to you is , do n't mess up and throw away the opportunity you 've been given , because if you do you 'll only have yourself to blame . |
| 25 | Think very carefully before you give up , because if you do you may regret it later on . |
| 26 | As Minton was fond of saying , ‘ Do n't possess anything , because if you do it will end up possessing you , ’ he himself not surprisingly felt uncomfortable in this Home Beautiful and , never really liking the place , was to move again after only two years . |
| 27 | you know I rather did it before because if you do it after that 's when the job situation becomes a bit of problem , look at John , look what 's happening there |
| 28 | I thought it was appropriate , not only because he was a barn owl , but because if you say it fast enough it sounds like ‘ barmy ’ , which he was a bit . |
| 29 | ‘ Because if you force me to leave , what would I do about my wretched EC forms on milk yield with which I 've been wrestling ? |
| 30 | because if you force them at all , it does n't work . |