Example sentences of "because she [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy , for example , was associated with the suffrage movement , Butler 's campaign against the CD Acts , and the campaign for the Married Women 's Property Acts , while Millicent Fawcett , though withholding public support for Butler because she feared it would bring the suffrage movement into disrepute , in fact wholeheartedly approved of her work . |
| 2 | CHAMPION golfer Fred Couples has walked out on his wife of 12 years because she embarrassed him by dancing on a table , friends claimed last night . |
| 3 | Dot did not know what Psalms were , but she felt she was beginning to understand about quiet and gentle greenness because she saw it all around her . |
| 4 | Today , it 's known as Lolly 's Lagoon because she saw it first . |
| 5 | Was this just because she saw herself as a Frieda Lawrence figure , or was there some firmer basis for it ? |
| 6 | Halfway through lunch , this blonde , baby-faced girl started to kill herself with anxiety because she saw someone she knew but could not remember their name . |
| 7 | George Eliot had loved the bonnets and sprigged china — because she knew them , or because writing them down gave her power over them , made her gentle and generous to their meaning ? |
| 8 | Her memories were like a small , locked box of securities and because she knew they were there , safely there , she had no need to open them . |
| 9 | ‘ Very well , ’ sighed Isabel , obeying only because she knew they had to find shelter , and there was none where they stood . |
| 10 | She said she did it because she knew her husband was innocent and she did n't want him implicated . |
| 11 | That made Agnes even madder , because she knew her friendly snub-nosed face could n't cope with anger . |
| 12 | She was the leader because she knew what she wanted to do , but he knew many things she did not , although she was not prepared to admit that to him . |
| 13 | 'she wanted an excuse to be at that bus-stop when Billy got off , because she knew what was going to happen . |
| 14 | She 'd only pulled away because she knew what was happening was wrong , not because she had n't been enjoying it . |
| 15 | She gasped , only because she knew what she wanted from him . |
| 16 | Was it because she knew we 'd had an affair and was jealous or was it the heartbreak of coming face to face with Steve ? ’ |
| 17 | But , because she knew nothing of the business , I insisted that she let me handle things . |
| 18 | She recalled that fatal time when she had wept because she knew she had diminished Jack , had demoted him , had cracked the perfect image , had lodged in her mind that little black poisonous atom . |
| 19 | She rose from the chair , muttering to herself , ‘ Oh dear ! ’ because she knew she would have to make her way to the closet at the far end of the house . |
| 20 | Whether it was because she knew she was my baby and did not like being with ward Sister , I shall not know , but she only gained two ounces the first week . |
| 21 | She felt a moment 's self-consciousness and doubt , because she knew she had changed , too ; that there were lines around the emerald eyes that had n't been there last time he saw her . |
| 22 | The youngster wrote in the past tense because she knew she would n't be around on Christmas Day when her Nan would open the box filled with her favourite jewellery . |
| 23 | She said she had not complained at the paratroopers ' barracks because she knew she would be in trouble for being out of bounds . |
| 24 | She occupied herself with studying a map on the opposite wall because she knew she would have to change trains at some point . |
| 25 | Because she knew she swelled and paled , in the grip of her look , she smiled even more and then invited them to start talking about their plans for their future home , which they did at once , and ceased to notice her . |
| 26 | " You do n't know what your talking about , " Katherine began , experiencing a deep burning rage that she had n't felt for a long time , a rage all the more intense because she knew she could do nothing about it . |
| 27 | But it was hypocritical sarcasm because she knew she would have done the same as him . |
| 28 | She did not argue because she knew she would not win ; she did not weep because she knew she would be rebuked . |
| 29 | She did not argue because she knew she would not win ; she did not weep because she knew she would be rebuked . |
| 30 | And it turned out to be simply because she knew she was pregnant ; a mechanical trick she was turning on him . |