Example sentences of "because [prep] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the therapy that gave me the strength to leave my girlfriend because through it I established the fact that I was prone to passivity , always waiting for other people to call the shots . |
| 2 | Most years this gave rise to no special problem , but eventually there was an occasion when the king 's enjoyment of the Easter Feast was spoilt by the absence of his queen , who was still fasting because for her it was Palm Sunday . |
| 3 | I view employment positively , because for me it is a routine which I enjoy and which keeps me going . |
| 4 | I do n't particularly see it as compromise because for me it is a method of going forward , if you can agree on something which is a basic principled demand around a particular issue and then pull into action a broader range of people around that . ’ |
| 5 | Right , er another situation where there 's men and women differences is in multilingual communities , er you find that men and women 's attitudes to varieties or language varieties or languages can carry so some men will try and avoid using one of their languages because they see it as a low prestige variety whereas some women will use it because for them it 's a high prestige variety . |
| 6 | All day long you will work and you will slave , Allowing wheelchairs to go where you pave , Just look at the kids to keep tiredness at bay , Because for them you are making it a better day . |
| 7 | We were not much concerned at discovering that we shared our beds with lice , or that the hotel also doubled as a brothel for the town 's leading gentry , because for us it had the finest view in the world . |
| 8 | What is important to note is that the collaboration between Grover Jackson and Randy Rhoads in designing this guitar was both fruitful and a complete success , because between them they produced an instrument which , in Randy 's hands , has provided itself with an impressive track record . |
| 9 | Rather , these mini-biographies have been chosen because between them they cover the gamut of the life experiences of the user group as a whole . |
| 10 | At lunch time Derek and I almost caused a riot in the dining hall , because between us we could obviously only sit at two tables at once and every table wanted us to sit with them . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's only hard because between us we 've made it that way , ’ he murmured softly . |
| 12 | Transnational practices are , of course , abstract concepts , but they refer directly to the practices of agents and derive meaning from the institutional settings in which they occur , and because of which they have determinate effects . |
| 13 | Thank goodness we were never occupied — not so much because of what the occupiers might have done to us , but because of what we would probably have done to each other . |
| 14 | Porn embarrasses us in part because of what we use it for . |
| 15 | You know , but i if we could n't , if they we as they said , if they wanted that money back tomorrow we could only give them half that money back because of what we 've got |
| 16 | he never made any thing else in his image , but he made you to be created in his image and with that there 's that status , were not just a more intelligent animal , were not just something else that God made even , but were that , that peak of his creative genius , the peak of it , the very pinnacle of it , not because of what we are , but because of the image , the pattern that he was using , his own self , created us in his image , so that gave us status but it gives us responsibility . |
| 17 | And you know there 's a you and I , whatever stage we are in our pilgrimage , in our journey in life , we do n't become lost because of what we do . |
| 18 | Irene Schwidurski said : ‘ They come and tell us their stories of the weekend ; or they come because of what they saw of it on ( Western ) TV . |
| 19 | Some reserve a special anger for France , the Maghreb 's former colonial power , because of what they see as a betrayal of its politique Arabe . |
| 20 | Jacob must insist that Esau receives his gifts , because of what they represent . |
| 21 | The by-laws were lawful not because of what they said but rather because of what they would have said if they had been drafted lawfully . |
| 22 | The by-laws were lawful not because of what they said but rather because of what they would have said if they had been drafted lawfully . |
| 23 | No one who is either a parent or a teacher can fail to be aware of the vast differences between children of 7 , not because of what they have been taught , but because of their rate of development and their maturity . |
| 24 | Catholics and Protestants developed their beliefs because of what happened in their history , not because of what they wanted to believe . |
| 25 | Ruth 's conscience was troubled over Dick : not because of what they had done together — that had been wonderful and whenever she thought about it her body ached , her breasts tingled with longing to experience it again — but because she now knew , had known it from the day after he had brought her home , that he was not the man she wanted to marry . |
| 26 | But , he was well informed on the matter and admitted that he and others were worried about their own safety because of what they knew . |
| 27 | The older , rusticated students were moved by appeals to their sense of national duty ( as well as by threats ) , while the younger students wished to revive anti-Japanese feeling because of what they perceived as the ‘ second Japanese invasion ’ . |
| 28 | Because of what they would have done to us . ’ |
| 29 | But there might also be , and were traditionally held to be , sentences that are true solely because of what they mean . |
| 30 | And presently what was within the books became significant also — quite small books would do , she discovered , because of what they said , one did not always have to get behind Bartholomew 's atlas or the bound volumes of Punch that lurked in the bottom of the sitting-room bookcase . |