Example sentences of "because [pron] [verb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was n't because I saw some guy and said , ‘ Hey , he gets a lot of girls , ’ or I saw some guy and said , ‘ Man , I want to be that guy , ’ because there 's no-one on earth I want to be . |
| 2 | It 's not because I had Christian parents , it 's not because I 'd some advantage over you , or you had some advantage over me , it is all of God 's graciousness , it is all of God 's giving ! |
| 3 | ‘ Simply because I felt some responsibility for you in Bruges , ’ Luke replied evenly . |
| 4 | because I want some toast . |
| 5 | but I said because you bring some guy , you 'll lend me the room on a Sunday afternoons , up and down |
| 6 | I came here because you wanted some PR done . |
| 7 | I know Mother would have liked it because she had some experience of one when she was living with Aunt Bessie , over in Stainmore . |
| 8 | We have taken it this far because we wanted some justice . |
| 9 | Everybody has situations that they are inclined to avoid because they provoke some anxiety . |
| 10 | The definitions are , at this early stage of our knowledge of Myrinian culture , valuable in themselves , not only because they reveal something of the inadequacy of our own language , but because they throw some light on to the mysteries of an alien culture . |
| 11 | He could n't get my bag back for me , or the other contents , because they had some value — although very little I 'm sure — whereas the letter , having no value at all ( except for me of course ! ) was thrown away . |
| 12 | The second issue — the risk that some good payers will be lumped in with bad payers , and treated like them , simply because they share some background characteristics with them — is discussed in chapter 5 , under ‘ Credit scoring ’ . |
| 13 | This is normally because they have some fear , conscious or otherwise , about what they will unearth during the course of the treatment . |
| 14 | The reason , in my opinion , why many artists call pastel application ‘ painting ’ is because they have some sort of complex when comparing their art to that of the oil painter , which is wrong . |
| 15 | And she , Merrill , had jumped to the obvious conclusion that Luke was trying to hide his past association with her cousin because he felt some guilt over the manner of her death . |
| 16 | The marshal 's reception of the news was predictably sour , but he refrained from any overt suggestion that Thiercelin had been at fault , possibly because he accepted some share of the blame himself . |
| 17 | Where a statement does cause the relevant belief or attitude in a hearer , it is because he has some reason to think the speaker 's beliefs on that topic are likely to be true , or his attitudes ones he is likely to find , on enquiry , reason to share , rather than because the mere words have any great hold over him . |
| 18 | The melee was extraordinary , because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion . |
| 19 | Research evidence suggests that old-fashioned formal teaching of grammar had a negligible , or , because it replaced some instruction and practice in composition , even a harmful , effect on the development of original writing . |
| 20 | She resented the claim because it raised some barrier between them . |
| 21 | The woman wore a dress that seemed very short when I recalled the picture through the next few years : broad shoulders , a straight skirt that hung the way it did — I know now — because it had some rayon in it . |
| 22 | ‘ Customers said it was great that we were open because it showed some normality in the town . ’ |
| 23 | The question is important because it gives some clue as to the likely rise in the long-run house price to income ratio ( because demand for housing has shifted upwards , while supply remains relatively constant ) . |
| 24 | Besides , an idea is n't always abandoned because it fails some quality control test . |
| 25 | the situa , perhaps it 's worth outlining how Litchfield came to look at the new settlement option , because it has some relevance to York |
| 26 | MANY people believe that the Royal Navy is referred to as the Senior Service because it has some sort of superiority to the Army , but the term was not even heard before the 17th Century . |