Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not kept my old key , because I had hoped that my association with Cutwater Charters was done , so I was forced to carry my heavy pack into the tangle of dark alleys that lay behind the straw market and where I planned to find Ellen and borrow her key . |
| 2 | It was the only time I felt slightly frightened and that was mainly because I 'd heard that a posterior labour could last a long time — even 24 hours . |
| 3 | Antique furniture , yes , erm , because I 'd bought that during the war in various antique places , you know , and erm , what did we buy , no I think my father gave us the bedroom furniture was , which was at the |
| 4 | Because I started to believe that I was n't seeing him . |
| 5 | I once garnered a useful titbit about Indian life from a documentary about the highest balloon flight in the world because I happened to see that it took place in the centre of the Indian sub-continent where the air can be particularly still . |
| 6 | But I ruined my own life — and more importantly I ruined Ashi 's too — because I refused to admit that I was what I was . ’ |
| 7 | Erm but let's ste let me step back a bit erm because I needed to emphasize that because you 've spoken with somebody else |
| 8 | " I hope I did n't wake you up , Aunt Tossie — I brought you these , " she proffered the scone because she had decided that Aunt Tossie really merited some small recognition for her mistaken act of kindness over the spinach . |
| 9 | She had invited him to stay at Blemley House because she had heard that he was clever . |
| 10 | It silenced Maggie most of all because she had assumed that Felipe guarded this secret and she had never mentioned it to Mitch . |
| 11 | She was surprised , because she had thought that she had a vocation not to marry . |
| 12 | She had a little smile on her face because she had won that round easily and it gave her a great deal of satisfaction . |
| 13 | She had never said so , certainly , because she hated to admit that she minded anything , but she had seemed evasive about the future , and had shown no great enthusiasm over the journalistic course she was going to take . |
| 14 | ‘ She deliberately kept us in the dark because she wanted to prove that she could get over this monster barrier of performing live on her own . |
| 15 | Thérèse because she was indifferent to the acid jab of nettles , Léonie because she liked to see that little corner of the grounds turned untidy and wild , the gateposts swarming with weeds and grass in their crevices , clumps of Michaelmas daisies . |
| 16 | They audience was ready for a great star because they 'd heard that he was . |
| 17 | This was their new production , and an electric charge went through them , intensely fuelled amongst the younger members because they had heard that Hans Kramer , the Viennese operatic agent , was coming specially to Hochhauser to see Therese . |
| 18 | When I first met these ideas , I was reluctant to accept them , because they seemed to suggest that our knowledge of the world is more unreliable than I would like to think . |
| 19 | That was because they tended to imply that beliefs , laws , and principles were not based on eternal unchanging principles but were aspects of the type of society in which they occurred . |
| 20 | Another journalist , the political columnist Alexander Cockburn , once told me that , on balance , he was relived not to have reported on Vietnam because he had observed that those who had , found it difficult to leave the subject alone . |
| 21 | He had also brought a chess manual , because he had heard that children could play chess brilliantly , but after ski-ing with Sam for a few days he decided that there was no call to be beaten by a five-year-old at two things at once . |
| 22 | He had bought a bunch of parsley on his way in , because he had heard that it clears away the smell of alcohol . |
| 23 | It was D'Arcy who raised the subject of The Criterion , because he had heard that it was in difficulties . |
| 24 | He left because he had decided that his conscience could not allow him to take part in military action arising from the Gulf crisis . |
| 25 | I once heard a very distinguished palaeontologist argue that the base of the Devonian was obviously at one particular level because he had shown that one species of trilobite changed at that horizon into another . |
| 26 | Most general practitioners may be very reluctant to travel in the early hours of the morning to see a patient because he had demanded that his own doctor attends , especially when they find that their practice can not be reimbursed for such a visit . |
| 27 | He 'd bought a BMW because he 'd heard that it was the car to have , and would n't admit that he felt uncomfortable in it . |
| 28 | Now he was into jazz because he 'd heard that the Yuppies had hijacked it after Clint Eastwood 's film on Charlie Parker , and had moved back a decade to the late ‘ forties . |
| 29 | This was because he refused to believe that he was a bully . |
| 30 | ‘ He says he phoned Maurin after you 'd been to the hotel because he wanted to report that you were asking questions about Barbara . |