Example sentences of "because she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet she was pardoned , because she was an internationally famous actress . |
| 2 | Ophelia is often ignored for audition material simply because she does n't seem to have much in the way of a sustained speech until she goes mad . |
| 3 | I could tell because she was nibbling her fingernails and then trying not to . |
| 4 | She 's a lot nicer than my mother because she does n't have any stupid daughters to distract her . |
| 5 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 6 | I was surprised because she 'd been throwing herself at him all day and not getting anywhere much . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I felt I could do that with you , but it was more difficult with her — partly because she was about the same age as me probably . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Or maybe I 'm a fruitarian bat , ’ said Marina , laughing , ‘ the one that got turned down for every Drac film because she would n't suck blood . |
| 9 | Then a pack of cards , and backgammon , Trivial Pursuit and Monopoly because she was sure the cottage would have only Snakes and Ladders and jigsaws with several pieces missing . |
| 10 | For the daytimes she would need swimsuit , snorkel and flippers ; oilskin , so rain could not stop her going out ; Hunter boots and crash cap because she was bound to find a riding stable ; tennis racquet — on the offchance , as Rodney did n't play ; a frisbee ; a lilo ; shorts , walking boots , a pedometer , a compass , a small knapsack and a thermos . |
| 11 | In the event she cycled much further , because she was given directions in the village to a riding stable . |
| 12 | On the tube home she felt like crying , not because she had left , but for Sharon and Maria , not to say Michael . |
| 13 | She must have saved herself about thirty pounds a week having you there , because she used to pay her neighbour to look after the two children for her while she was out at work . ’ |
| 14 | Because she had no garden , she improvised a sandpit for the children to play in . |
| 15 | This latest victory at the sunswept and showery Eastbourne was probably one of her most satisfying , not least because she defeated a player in the final who herself , did everything but win . |
| 16 | The Lilac Fairy is generously slow and controlled and taps her forehead because she is bringing the gift of Wisdom ( the traditional gesture for wise ) . |
| 17 | But the beloved was unattainable either because she belonged to another or because , like his muse , she forever eluded him as she was only a figment of his imagination . |
| 18 | Ashton 's careful build-up to this climax makes Vera 's discovery of them in each other 's arms all the more poignant because she shows a child-like petulance at losing one she so longed to have for her own . |
| 19 | This Simone has come directly from playing the Dame of pantomime and maintains that character from her very first entrance when she shakes a tablecloth out of the window and then furiously throws every vegetable in sight at Colas because she finds him waiting for Lise . |
| 20 | The sky clears in the childbirth sequence because of Shatov 's sublime murmurings about the arrival of a new human being , but also because the midwife has her sleeves rolled up , because she is attacking a difficult and strenuous professional job , organizing essentials , masterminding the whole exercise , scolding Marie Shatov who allowed Shatov to get between her and the family in which she was a governess ‘ with the egotistical object of marrying you , laughing at the distraught husband on his knees unable either to bear the sound or block his ears before the birth ; and when all is tidied up , ‘ after some pleasant–es about ‘ the happy couple' ’ which were not without a touch of contempt and superciliousness , she went away as well satisfied as before . ’ |
| 21 | And as to Spasov and being saved — ‘ Il me semble que tout le monde va à Spassof ’ — there is still some comic devillife in him as he quotes the Saviour against his bible-selling saviour because she is taking thought for the morrow , and as he turns the gospel on its head with ‘ Happiness does n't pay me because I start at once forgiving all my enemies . ’ |
| 22 | This points to Eleanor of Provence , Edward 's mother and consort of Henry III , whose reputation is as bad as that of Eleanor of Castile is good — though not for David Gordon , who seems to think that because she 's said to be ‘ of Provence ’ , this puts her above suspicion . |
| 23 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 24 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 25 | It was as well that she did because she had forfeited most of her private life for the sake of her chosen career . |
| 26 | She does not need nurses in uniform , she almost shouts : just because she is disabled , it does not mean she is medically ill . |
| 27 | She acknowledges that such a claim can not be substantiated because she also received orthodox medical treatment . |
| 28 | She refuses to undergo any medical checks because she ‘ has no need of further proof ’ . |
| 29 | Dr Anthony Storr , author of the recently-published Churchill 's Black Dog , in which he showed how senior politicans often turned stresses of up-bringing into strengths , said yesterday : ‘ I 'm interested because the gates must mean that she 's feeling increasingly insecure and threatened in a simple , straightforward way ; and that 's an interesting phenomenum in itself because she 's been so absolutely certain of herself . |
| 30 | As the narrator explained that ‘ Jane would soon have to move on ’ , because she was reaching the limit of her maximum stay in the council-owned hostel , we watched her rinse the sink , wipe the draining board and hang up the dishcloth . |