Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adv] because " in BNC.

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1 In particular , the ERCs fail in some cases to rehabilitate the men and women who pass through them largely because it is not their physical disablement but their attitude that is handicapping them in returning to normal working life , and the ERCs are not really equipped to change these attitudes .
2 They have every right to be different — it 's very presumptuous of us to invent personalities for them simply because we 've seen them act on a cinema screen , but it can still be a shock when they 're not as you 'd hoped .
3 T : I 've got a lot more respect for them now because I met one of them at a party once and he told me they 're going to be bigger than The Beatles — in all seriousness .
4 Right would you take them to the kitchen for me please because I 'm putting these bits away
5 Oh switch this light on for me again because the pools lady wo n't be able to see .
6 You feel sorry for me now because I 'm ill .
7 Agnes turned away from her sister and there was a sad note in her voice as she said , ‘ He cares for me merely because I 'm useful to him , that 's all .
8 The Guggenheim installation worked well for me too because I was able to use a strict chronology : one thing after another all the way down the ramp .
9 And you wo n't get any more answers out of me just because you started to … started to … ’
10 Two adolescent girls in New Zealand had killed with a brick the mother of one of them just because they wanted to .
11 And the , several times I 've bought picture of them particularly because I have n't had to pay the postage ,
12 They said well er I thought perhaps he was away preaching , she says oh no they do n't want any of m our people used to go out a lot preaching , but they do n't want any of them now because it 's too deep for them
13 That 's one size stockings there 's not much left in the way of them now because most people you know do n't wear stockings , these are pop
14 Most of you simply because they have no shame , now bringing it round to a spiritual thing , how can we show that we , where it describes there beggars for the spirit , it really means having no shame whatsoever in the truth , never hold back in demanding really , what your requirements are in the way of spiritual things and a good mirror to this is analyze yourself and ask yourself what am I like , am I really a beggar in spirit , what am I like when the magazines come ?
15 If they know which party you are from and say , ‘ Oh I expect I 'll vote for you ’ , they probably mean ‘ I wo n't , but I want to get rid of you quickly because Dallas is just beginning ’ , or , I 've no idea and I 'm really not interested — politicians are all the same . ’
16 We thought of you really because we all remember the good old days , you know Magpie .
17 I wonder if that 's where he 's heard of you then because he you know he introduced me to N S A.
18 He memorized pages of it just because he loved it and often recited his favourite bits to himself on those inevitable odd moments of waiting about in queues and so on .
19 And really you know , I mean I think to myself well I 'm glad I 'm out of it really because erm
20 I remember enjoying every moment of it especially because I was watching my father .
21 ‘ I 'm not telling lies for you just because you want to go to the coffee bar , ’ Sally objected .
22 No goals as yet in the other game in group A against Charlton although as I warned you earlier , I do n't think we 'll have that score for you tonight because it is being played in Italy and er our chances of getting that score through the er computer here are remote to put it mildly .
23 John 's firm having been established for nearly forty years by this time , the rival Lawrence Girls were definitely more earthy in character , with not a snob amongst them possibly because they did not have such a long tradition .
24 The Council of Ten in Venice have sent three assassins against me just because I borrowed some of their gold and forgot to repay it .
25 But I 'm not going to turn against him just because of an accident .
26 I thought it was going to be one of those horrific accidents but it does n't seem like it now because he was brutally injured . ’
27 ‘ There are those who want to be seen with me simply because of who I am .
28 ‘ In the end I asked him not to bet with me anymore because of the size and frequency of his bets . ’
29 I said the libraries are closed on Wednesdays and Fridays , why do n't you come to the library with me today because it 's closed on a Wednesday and Friday .
30 He 's with me only because the Reichsführer ordered it . ’
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