Example sentences of "[pers pn] because it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victoria said , ‘ And why he asked me not to call him uncle in front of you because it made him sound old ! ’ |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This view angered me because it seemed to judge everything in purely monetary terms . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I said , ‘ Cynthia would n't let him ’ , which was silly of me because it aroused several emotions in my mother . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | that intrigued me because it did n't seem to me that it was to be eligible |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | No it , we took it to this bloke and I do n't know what he 's done with it because it played before we took it and when he , he said it were n't worth doing and when we brought it back it wo n't even roll now even play now will it ? |
| 17 | It was worth all the hard work that we had put into it because it got that we used to use the town park towards the latter part of Barnardos day and all the men that we had gathered together used to have to erect every piece of fence to enclose like it is now , the park , is enclosed now with with fencing the men that were helping us did that all voluntarily ! |
| 18 | It 's like the story Mum used to read me when I was a kid about the white puppy-dog that got lost and its little girl owner looked everywhere for it and when she found it again she did n't recognize it because it 'd got so dirty it was n't her little white dog any longer . |
| 19 | Jinny remembered seeing it and slipping past it because it looked complicated and she was tired . |
| 20 | I remember how he signed it because it sounded so impressive : ‘ T. Buckland Kettering ’ . ’ |
| 21 | Since the NPT 's adoption in 1968 , the French government 's position had been that it would abide by the terms of the treaty but would not sign it because it granted the two superpowers a privileged position in international relations . |
| 22 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 23 | More than that he was almost certainly looking forward to it because it meant going home to be with the Lord . |
| 24 | ‘ I remember it because it had grey military markings , ’ added Duncan . |
| 25 | That she 'd no need to query it because it had been so special . |
| 26 | He predicted that Democrats would support it because it had the greatest chance of securing enough backing to become law by overriding a presidential veto . |
| 27 | ‘ We had very little work to do to it because it had been kept in great condition throughout its time as a lifeboat on the Isles of Scilly , ’ he explained . |
| 28 | ‘ They shouted at Trudy to open the till but she could n't open it because it had jammed . |
| 29 | So you ca n't have a full mortgage but they could n't get a mortgage on it because it had a flat roof . |
| 30 | If someone very close ( a member of your family , for instance ) were to come into the room while you were in that state , you would be aware of it but you probably would not move or do anything about it because it felt ‘ right ’ . |