Example sentences of "because [pers pn] gave [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I know how you came by your money , Harry Pascoe , and I know that Sam was only in with you because you gave him no alternative . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , it 's only because you gave me a leg-up at the beginning , explaining the theory and such . ’ |
| 3 | And he has come home this morning worn out with experience , all grief and all wonder , because she gave him the psaltery on which he played to her , and sent him a message straight out of the jongleurs ’ romances . |
| 4 | ‘ He has left you a cottage in Devonshire , and he said : ‘ Tell her it 's not because she saved my life , but because she gave me a fourpenny cigar . ' ’ |
| 5 | In one of his rare public reflective moments , he looked back on the three women in his early life , Mud , Lorraine and June , with gratitude because they gave him a good start , independence and the belief that he could always take care of himself , come what may . |
| 6 | I say ‘ solitary c. ’ because they gave me a little ward of my own , but it was anything but uncomfortable , as they gave me a treatment which ‘ private ward ’ patients in Britain might envy , except that the food of course was Chinese , and they insisted on giving me 5 meals a day , so that I had some trouble getting my appetite back to normal . |
| 7 | I may have made an unconscious movement towards him because he gave me a last malevolent grin and disappeared into the crowd . |
| 8 | She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting . |
| 9 | It was really the misleading start to her whole punishingly misled life , because it gave her an idea of herself that she was absolutely unequipped to realize . |
| 10 | The Act was welcomed by many old people because it gave them a regular income free from the taint of poor relief ; though many , rightly , criticized it for giving ‘ too little too late in life ’ , that little was more than had been given before . |
| 11 | They joined in our events for young women , and devoured our publications , because it gave them the springboard for taking action themselves . |
| 12 | She was always quiet , which I liked because it gave me a chance to talk without interruption . |
| 13 | The cold was intense , but I welcomed it because it gave us an excuse to lie close together for warmth . |