Example sentences of "because [pron] [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am very worried now because I was on a deportation order , the immigration had n't been settled . |
| 2 | It was more or less at eye level , because I was on the floor at the time , and I crawled towards it with a muffled sensation of triumph . |
| 3 | , ah no , but you , but you were n't aware of that because you were on the floor , as I was saying five minutes ago . |
| 4 | Right , well , the Principle says that if you were sitting in your seat pressed back by gravity — because you were on the launch pad with the nose cone pointing upwards — the same thing would happen . |
| 5 | Because we were on a voucher system from the DHSS that pays your rent we had no choice about where we were sent . |
| 6 | I 've gone to bed many and many a time — and I was only sixteen — I 've gone to bed many a time and laid on the bed and fell off to sleep before I was undressed because we were on the go the whole time . |
| 7 | ‘ When is Derek coming ? ’ asked Lili , perhaps because we were on the subject of husbands . |
| 8 | Well he 's done a lot , because we were on the bus on Tuesday , and er couple who live in which is one of those roads up |
| 9 | They used to do that : the chief inspector walking down on a Saturday morning in full regalia and one of these fellows would nod and they 'd always walk to the corner , and the Chief would n't say anything about it because they were on the corner and not causing any obstruction . |
| 10 | A common prostitute — you could n't call any woman a common prostitute because they were on the game with some chap . |
| 11 | So that cost an awful lot of money because he was on a grant of course and he , he spent er about a year as a trainee teacher and we thought that was great because he was , he was dealing with , with er |
| 12 | I knew he 'd used firearms in the past and because he was on the run from prison he obviously did n't want to be rearrested . |
| 13 | Because he was on the spot , and had established a surprising , and surely almost heretical , chain of friendships there on the border , he thought he knew better than these older and cooler heads in London . |
| 14 | Nor did we have a talk beforehand because he was on the stage doing a turn with somebody else — I think they call it a warm-up . |
| 15 | " She went down the cliff because he was on the job with che other woman . |
| 16 | Well that we had a favourite place for that , that was at the corner of Road and Road by the chapel , the Chapel , and because it was on a hill , slope on to . |
| 17 | Because it was on the back of something which he was making recently . |
| 18 | It was a local canal planned by local men with local capital for local reasons.40 An extreme example perhaps because it was on the periphery of the network , but in general few canals were cut with other than local economic benefits in mind . |
| 19 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |