Example sentences of "because she had [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went to cabin 10 that night ; Jane because nothing would have kept her away ; Lucinda because she had nothing better to do ; and Vi reluctantly , because someone had to keep an eye on Lilith and her peculiar ways and maybe , though the eldest of the trio would never have admitted it , because she was more than a little curious about the birthday message . |
| 2 | Before she used to sit and worry because she had nothing to worry about . |
| 3 | The shy ten-year-old did not want to take it because she had her new skirt on and a clean blouse and was intent on the fair . |
| 4 | She supposed it would be all right , although she herself never went near the stables — which was sad , because she had her great-aunt 's love of horses and she enjoyed the smell and the sound of them . |
| 5 | Would this be because she had something to hide , he wondered , or was she inhibited by her clerical top brass . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It would be better that way because she had someone with her and they ought to talk alone . |
| 8 | She said she was drinking his orange juice under false pretences because she had none . |
| 9 | Gwendolen McEwen had always felt left out when her schoolfriends went to see their grandparents , because she had none . |