Example sentences of "because [subord] she [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mass unemployment during the 1920s and 1930s modified opinion somewhat , although the economist F. Y. Edgeworth opposed the idea of family allowances in 1922 on the grounds that they would encourage male idleness and quoted approvingly the comment of a social worker in 1908 , who said ‘ if the husband got out of work the only thing that the wife should do is sit down and cry , because if she did anything else he would remain out of work ’ . |
| 2 | The last thing she could afford to do was cry , because if she started she might never stop . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | She refused , because as she said she had no urge to sit on a draughty hillside and watch him break his miserable neck . |
| 5 | Because as she opened her eyes she could plainly see that there was nothing even remotely ghost-like about the tall , broad-shouldered figure of her husband , Ross Wyndham , now sitting on the seat beside her . |
| 6 | yes it was a movie picture , yes been showing here , because when she said she was blind , I thought well what 's the good , but she said oh well , he , when he runs it through he sort of explains to , but he was using it all the time was n't he ? |
| 7 | Frankie could not be one of them , yet he feared in his hear that it might be true , because when she called him ‘ Nigger ’ it wounded him in a special way he did not really understand . |