Example sentences of "[v-ing] because [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd been drinking . |
| 2 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 3 | The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd been drinking . |
| 4 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 5 | The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd been drinking . |
| 6 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 7 | The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd been drinking . |
| 8 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 9 | And second , how dare she imply that those hundreds of thousands of people with a spinal injury throughout the world are not walking because they lack the will to do so . |
| 10 | The debate was revealing because it exposed the core of racism and bigotry beneath the liberal rhetoric of Canada 's much vaunted multiculturalism . |
| 11 | No we were laughing because you 've got mayonnaise all round your mouth . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm laughing because you did n't lie to me . |
| 13 | Or are you sulking because I rejected you ? ’ |
| 14 | They are n't trading because they do n't receive income . |
| 15 | He was said to be fuming because she had n't told him where she was staying during her family skiing holiday in Klosters . |
| 16 | If you avoid writing because you make mistakes , then when you are forced to write an exam , you 'll still make the mistakes . |
| 17 | ‘ But the immigration officials and security men just laughed and said she was pretending because she did n't want to be sent back . ’ |
| 18 | You were acting because you wanted to see how far I 'd go ! ’ |
| 19 | Ali himself has acknowledged this : ‘ I started boxing because I thought this was the fastest way for a black person to make it in this country ’ ( quoted by Torres , 1971 , p.83 ) . |
| 20 | The main thing to prevent is a solid sheet of ice forming because it acts like a lid and prevents the escape of poisonous gases , given off by deteriorating pond vegetation . |
| 21 | He then explained that William Tidbury could not be convicted of aiding and abetting because he had not been charged with that crime . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm escaping because I like escaping , ’ replied Mould . |
| 23 | Astrology can not be allowed as a serious contribution to living because it fails empirically in relation to the natural world , and could be foolish , or dangerous , in political and economic affairs . |
| 24 | I think he goes training because he knows the police can never find an Athletico training session . |
| 25 | Such questions seem both searching and naive , searching because they open up a Pandora 's box of issues about the nature and structure of knowledge , naive because they are not usually asked , and doubtless can not be answered , in quite such a simple way . |
| 26 | Herbal cigarettes are not recommended as an aid to giving up smoking because they contain both tar and carbon monoxide . |
| 27 | Suppose you actually managed to escape all the harmful effects of tobacco but your child took up smoking because you smoked and he or she went on to develop one of those dreadful ( and often fatal ) illnesses . |
| 28 | And it was quite ni actually although I was hurrying because I thought of them sitting in the car erm it was very pleasant walking , very slippery though along by Walford cemetery and all down there . |
| 29 | " Nowhere , " she said , but her mother always knew when she was lying because she had n't been a bad liar in her time herself , and it took one to know one . |
| 30 | At first it were good because it were incentive for her to keep going because she 'd , you know , paid so much but toward the end , she said , it were getting ridiculous . |