Example sentences of "[pers pn] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environment officials — who argue that the convention should be theirs because it concerns conservation rather than aid — now appear to have won their case . |
| 2 | Victoria said , ‘ And why he asked me not to call him uncle in front of you because it made him sound old ! ’ |
| 3 | But , but I said but , but that thing Trem , Trem like when she said to me do n't tell you but I told you because it concerned us |
| 4 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 5 | You get a lot of people who 'll tell you how to sing and play , and stop you because it sounds a bit out of tune , but he 'll say , ‘ No , there 's soul in there , even if it is slightly out of tune . |
| 6 | ‘ Even losing a goal is occasionally good for you because it brings you back to earth and helps you retain a sense of vulnerability . ’ |
| 7 | I tend not to tell people a song is n't about them because it disappoints them . |
| 8 | But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now . |
| 9 | It 's important to them because it proves where they are in life , they do n't want to stay like where their parents were , they want to prove . |
| 10 | I 'm always a little bit worried about them because it seems to me that they almost define the syllabus in terms of what you can ask four reasonable questions in terms of alternatives about . |
| 11 | For the O level people and those who just wanted to work , mucking around was seen to be unfair both to them because it held them back and to the teachers : here they interpret ‘ mucking about ’ wholly within the official theory of schooling . |
| 12 | The ERPS team are very fortunate that this facility is available to them because it has enabled the reconstruction work to be undertaken more efficiently . |
| 13 | This view angered me because it seemed to judge everything in purely monetary terms . |
| 14 | Working part of lunchtime had a slight advantage for me because it meant I now had a bit more time to load the container rail set . |
| 15 | I said , ‘ Cynthia would n't let him ’ , which was silly of me because it aroused several emotions in my mother . |
| 16 | I would n't recommend this one it 's just this is good for me because it 's got sort of |
| 17 | Well I would expect that the Prime Minister would , I think this nonsense that is behind all this is that because I am talking to Gerry Adams , they do n't want to be seen to be talking to me because it looks this fingerprint argument |
| 18 | Or the nineteen thirties book is like one of the things that really inspired me because it showed me that you can do type that looks as though , I mean it can be composed as though in metal and not be boring — can not be , manufactured , you know hum drum , by varying the weights and by massing it , and also one of the things they do , that you see in those books that you did n't see in printing , was this size of type . |
| 19 | He does n't like seeing me because it makes him remember my mother . |
| 20 | He had come home on 30 March and , referring to Sutherland , had told her : ‘ That bastard had the cheek to lose the head with me because it did not work . |
| 21 | that intrigued me because it did n't seem to me that it was to be eligible |
| 22 | Although bathed in a sentimentality of its own , the concept appeals to me because it reminds me of a trip I made as a student to the Maison Savoye in the summer of 1957 , when this great Corbusier villa was a ruin surrounded by waist-high grass and nettles . |
| 23 | Picturesque asymmetry appealed to him because it enabled him to allow the logical sequence of the rooms and considerations of service and privacy to determine the entire plan from of the house without any unnecessary duplication of accommodation . |
| 24 | He had been frightened somewhere in a tight locked-up place inside him because it seemed impossible that they would land safely , and the final swaying descent had made him ill . |
| 25 | Murder appalled him because it took everything from the victim with no possibility of restitution , it blotted out memories of a past and hopes for a future . |
| 26 | I do n't know how much of it he read , but the entry for May 20th must have galled him because it told him that the potential wage-earner had spent much of the day in playing cricket . |
| 27 | This one 's just as much of a prezzie for you as it is for him because it smells absolutely delicious ! |
| 28 | He 's behind the bushes , or he sits in the church itself when it 's cold , and I do n't blame him because it 's been pretty cold the last , you know , few weeks . |
| 29 | How do think er Notts are gon na cope without him because it seems as though when he is on form , certainly when he 's at home , he finds scoring goals quite easy to come by ? |
| 30 | His latest play , David Henry Hwang 's M. Butterfly , which began its national tour in Bath this week , attracted him because it deals with the questions of sexual roles and masculine/feminine identity which he has been exploring through his men 's group for the past 18 months . |