Example sentences of "[be] because [pron] [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if Madame stayed close to him , it can hardly have been because she thought he needed looking after . |
| 2 | It may be because they thought he has access to money or stores it there but that information is wrong . |
| 3 | It could only be because they had something to hide . |
| 4 | Oh aye , had to be because I mean you do n't stay young forever , |
| 5 | Would this be because she had something to hide , he wondered , or was she inhibited by her clerical top brass . |
| 6 | Now one of the reasons a lot of delegations go wrong , is because we think we have agreed ground rules with people . |
| 7 | And I 'm confident that I know that one reason why you are so upset at this moment is because you realize you made such an awful fool of yourself , have n't you ? ’ |
| 8 | And the reason I 'm telling this to you , is because I want you to live . ’ |
| 9 | To some extent , this is because it enables us to indulge in a form of mental shorthand which is convenient , if unimaginative , for communicating with others . |
| 10 | I told them — it 's because they think we stink . |
| 11 | ‘ In this case it 's because they believe you 've tricked them over the supposed disappearance of Clarion Call . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's because you make him shy and self-conscious , that 's all . ’ |
| 13 | If I look so bad it 's because I thought I had lost you . |
| 14 | It looks like 16mm film because it 's Kodak Gold and that 's because I wanted it to look like good-quality home snaps as opposed to a kind of beautiful , arty shot . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's because I wanted you to drive me into Palma so I can get on with my work … do n't walk away from me , Fernando ! ’ |
| 16 | He says it 's because it makes him look naff , but it 's more than that . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's because she wanted us to shag her . ’ |
| 18 | I suppose it was because we know he 's been highly-strung lately — his peculiar behaviour at the airport , for a start — that it took longer than it should have done for me to think over properly what had happened . |
| 19 | They had faith in him , and I believe that this was because they knew he had faith in them . |
| 20 | I liked to think it was because they thought he 'd failed , that our survival in the mountains had been his humiliation , but I would have to admit this might have been mere wishful thinking . |
| 21 | But I idiotically thought I could see Antoinette and Piers looking rather amused and I was sure it was because they felt I did n't know him as well as I 'd said . |
| 22 | The prosecution claimed Jean-Marc Brennez was somebody Miss Giles had made up and the reason it was billed only as a surprise film was because she knew she did not have the right to show it . |
| 23 | That was because I mean you take now the , the , the Dredging Company what they call the in their funnel they used to have erm a square and in halves that used to be a blue and a yellow . |
| 24 | ‘ The reason I chose to come here for a job was because I thought I had relations here . |