Example sentences of "because there was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My relatives used to come over and say : ‘ There 's nothing in the shops ’ , and I thought it was ridiculous , because there was plenty , ’ a 47-year-old lathe operator from Dresden told me yesterday . |
| 2 | Ben had told the doctor this , and the next morning the doctor gave Silver the map — which was now useless — and gave him the food at the stockade , because there was plenty in Ben Gunn 's cave . |
| 3 | However , in 1878 , deaf education in Greenock faced a crisis because there was no-one able to continue to teach the children , and one parent was not happy about his child being taught in sign language . |
| 4 | We ca n't all sit around laughing , 'cos we 'd all die pretty soon because there was no-one to gather food , or make sure it was safe . |
| 5 | On one ocassion , patients were said to have spent the night in wet beds because there was no-one to change them . |
| 6 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 7 | I think someone gave it back because there was something wrong with it . ’ |
| 8 | These were friends not seen for a long time , visited now because there was something to celebrate . |
| 9 | We were told that he refused to take his seat in the Chamber of Deputies because there was something he did n't approve of in the campaign . |
| 10 | ‘ Because there was something foul about the set-up at the Jenner Clinic , and they do n't want it made public . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Luke Denner , you see , did n't know how to handle this girl who fell into his life out of nowhere , who mixed him up and puzzled him too , because there was something , someone else beneath the surface . |
| 12 | Because there was something in his eyes that had beckoned to her ? |
| 13 | I have friends who are actively involved still , and occasionally I wonder if we stopped because there was something lacking in our marriage that we were n't aware of . |
| 14 | I was there a few days and then me and me friends barricaded ourselves in a cell and we would n't come out because there was nowt to do . |
| 15 | The absence of reference to exchange rates and the EMS was presumably because there was nothing he could say without exciting renewed speculation or reopening divisions at the top of the Government . |
| 16 | Some children from Hindu families even attended Sunday school , mainly because there was nothing much else to do at weekends . |
| 17 | ‘ I accept partial blame but I have a feeling that history will treat me kindly because there was nothing wrong with my basic thesis . |
| 18 | The strategy meetings planned as a permanent nightly fixture in Mr Ashdown 's eighth floor suite in the Royal Horseguards Hotel were often cut short because there was nothing to discuss . |
| 19 | Jenny was nine , and even if she had n't been adventurous she would probably have fallen in the river anyway , because there was nothing much to do at Dale End but get into mischief . |
| 20 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
| 21 | And because there was nothing on costs there could be nothing on cost-effectiveness , no appraisal of different ways of achieving similar goals . |
| 22 | But there were times when you could n't say anything because there was nothing to say . |
| 23 | Mrs McBride took no pride in it because there was nothing to take a pride in . |
| 24 | He hated leaving her there but he descended the ladder because there was nothing else he could do . |
| 25 | She smiled at him when it was over because there was nothing else she could do . |
| 26 | Because there was nothing in Clara 's past that would seem to have fitted her for such recognitions : she was not bred to it . |
| 27 | It was guarded only when the children were there : at night it was empty , because there was nothing to steal and no one to be hunted . |
| 28 | I could not get into a routine because there was nothing to get into a routine with ! |
| 29 | He slept almost as long as Sam , because there was nothing much else to do but read , and reading put him to sleep anyway . |
| 30 | ‘ Electricity , ’ said Gilbert again , and all except Rohmer turned to listen to him again , because there was nothing else any of them could do . |