Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [verb] how " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's terrible but I find I do exactly the same with my children now : they come in from school and everything is dropped and I say ‘ pick them up ’ and I try to stop nagging them because I remember how much I hated it . |
| 2 | Vale boss John Rudge said : ‘ We had a bit of luck when that shot from Regis stuck in the mud but I 'm overjoyed for our fans because I know how much it means to beat Stoke . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Because I know how nomes think , ’ said the Thing . |
| 4 | And it would n't be fair to Piper , because I know how much you still love Mum , even though you never say so . ’ |
| 5 | Because I know how much it hurts you not to have children . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ That 's why I cried a bit when I scored , because I knew how much it meant to them . |
| 7 | ‘ I am powerful precisely because I understand how habit trammels the mind 's energy , d'ye see ? |
| 8 | ‘ So I 'm more of a fucking man because I learned how to kill people , and did ? ’ |
| 9 | Er , you know , well of course they were young girls and er , you see and there 's , there was nothing we could do , you see , and , and er , anyway the doctor , as soon as the doctor did come , it was because th the young staff er they had to , they took her away to the mortuary , you see and erm then I , I had to carry on with her work and , and do the best I could and mine as well , you see , but of course er the Manager he appointed another Assistant Manager to go and collect the money which I used to do got it in because I took her times of duty as well and er , you see , and then after that er after several weeks I suppose it was , I do n't know how many because I forget how many , that they appointed me as Manageress and I was in that position for twelve years , you see and |
| 10 | Thomas found himself ill-equipped to answer this bidding call effectively : This doubt of myself is the more powerful , because I see how all along my senses are so powerful . |
| 11 | For example , he took comfort from the deflationary economic measures of July 1966 , which he opposed , as it gave him the chance ‘ to reassert collective Cabinet authority because I see how disastrous it is to allow Cabinet government to decline into mere Prime Ministerial government … if I achieved anything it was by asserting the right of Cabinet to take part in the making of economic strategy so that Harold conceded we must be given that right ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I did think you could say I had a cold because you know how frightened Gran is of catching colds . |
| 13 | Because you know how much I 'll hate it ? ’ |
| 14 | Erm now you 've had a chance first of all I after our chat er par particularly on the phone and I make notes of people who er I think come well across on the phone because you know how important that is to us . |
| 15 | Well there is up to a point because you know how bad they are at responding . |
| 16 | Erm , it 's , if is a bit awkward bu , you know , our , well our terms because you know how calls so Jenny gets to have them , she gets an awful lot . |
| 17 | And we are called upon , as Astrid says , to sort of , you know ‘ this is n't working , can you fix it , because you know how it works ’ , and that 's fair enough , but I 'm not called on by somebody in the press to fix a typewriter . |
| 18 | I mean , th tha tha that 's interesting what you said , because you said how to avoid sexual diseases and to er avoid getting pregnant , are those the basics of sex education or or what more would put onto the list of things that you would teach ? |
| 19 | and really always has been , erm , the idea of a centre is , is simply because you consider how much it costs to have a point wired when the house is , is built , er several people nowadays is ha well they buy an old house , they erm , say well we 'll take out the centre light and put us in some wall lights instead you see . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was because her few visits to Sleightholmedale had been fleeting or was it perhaps , George wondered , because she knew how overwhelmed they would feel if they knew the truth . |
| 21 | ‘ Only he did n't leave his wife , so Marie O'Donnell returned to Ireland , and because she knew how it would be if it was known she had an illegitimate child she told everyone she was a widow . |
| 22 | ‘ Faye said the other day that she 's going to start a society for the protection of punching bags , because she knows how they feel ! ’ |
| 23 | Women ‘ police ’ other women 's bodies because we know how important our appearance is in a society which objectifies us . |
| 24 | It can be easily assumed that because we know how computers work we therefore know how learning is programmed . |
| 25 | In other words , we identify a particular event as the cause because we know how it could have made the effect happen , not because we know it happened before the effect . |
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| 27 | Women may fear the loss of their identity much more , because they know how easily they can merge with others . |
| 28 | ‘ I really do feel sorry for them because they know how hard their parents have worked to raise money for the computers , ’ she said . |
| 29 | It was also argued , conversely , that , in general , middle-class families benefited more than the poor because they understood how to manipulate the non-means-tested elements of the system , such as education . |
| 30 | They would be more careful with each other this time because they knew how easily human beings could be broken and hurt . |