Example sentences of "but because she [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inexorably her thoughts turned to suicide , not because she wanted to die but because she desperately wanted help . |
| 2 | Not because she purposely wants to be but because she just do n't think she 'd to done it , do you ? |
| 3 | " What happened to his wife ? " said Clara , not for the sake of asking , but because she really wanted to know . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had refused to have her husband cremated , not because she had anything so fanciful as a religious objection to cremation , but because she quite erroneously considered cremation to be a new-fangled idea , and she objected to the new . |