Example sentences of "there because " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd get off the bus from West London there because they were such big Faces fans and Malcolm 's shop was right next door to the home of the dandy fashion shop Granny Takes A Trip — a shop which had a Cadillac sticking out of its window — where The Faces and The Stones bought their clothes |
| 2 | Partly he 'd be in because he was really into leather himself and partly he was there because his girlfriend of the time , Nora — who now lives with Johnny Rotten — was in the shop just about every day . |
| 3 | It 's absolutely horrible but Malcolm would insist on taking you there because it made him feel part of some secret society . |
| 4 | The last time I went there was in 1968 ; after that I could n't go there because I was a British citizen . |
| 5 | We had a row with Lucas there because they had fitted fuel injection to Jimmy Clark 's Lotus , despite promising us exclusive use for the season if we persevered with it . |
| 6 | Twenty per cent of people in hospital are there because they drink too much . ’ |
| 7 | Of course he was n't always there because frequently there were notes from his mother to say that he had earache or something , but later on I realized , of course , that those notes had been faked , the same as the notes that I had sent to school from my mother several generations before that . |
| 8 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 9 | I do n't know how David 's Mum got there because he decided not to tell her , even though I said he could call her because it 's not really fair to get married without letting her know . ’ |
| 10 | There might have been some difficulty there because of Giles ‘ s position , because of the conflict of interest . |
| 11 | Israel thinks Syria wants the UN there because Mr Assad has not accepted , in his heart , the need for face-to-face negotiation with the Jewish state . |
| 12 | He was just there because he 'd always been there . |
| 13 | She told him it was there because of the air-raids in the war and even now , in 1951 , there were special reasons why it must never be removed . |
| 14 | But to the men of Kufra whose fathers or grandfathers had settled there because it was so centrally placed on trade routes , or because it was so remote from Ottoman , Italian or British control , ‘ central government ’ appeared indeed as a real force , but as one located — so to speak — in the extreme northwestern corner , in Tripoli . |
| 15 | The section shaikhs and Ibrahim al-Sanusi were there because they had to guarantee to the Zliten people that all Zuwaya would accept the peace they had arranged . |
| 16 | The cobbler 's song in Hassan is there because man invented a shoe . |
| 17 | Taking the opportunity of arranging three subscription concerts in Strasburg he got stranded there because of serious flooding . |
| 18 | If that roast burns there because you 've not basted it , I 'll spit you in its place the morrow 's morn ! |
| 19 | It is precisely this sort of arrangement — ‘ rooms had been taken there because they were to start by an early train on that line in the morning ’ — that leads to a fraught dinner party for Clara Amedroz and the two rivals for her hand at the Great Northern Hotel , King 's Cross , in Anthony Trollope 's The Belton Estate ( 1865 ) . |
| 20 | I say their contemplation can give no-one pleasure ; they are there because their absence would be resented by the average man who regards a large amount of futile display as in some way inseparable from the conditions of that well-to-do life to which he belongs or aspires to belong . |
| 21 | The members of the new lower class , of those who are not chosen for the meritocracy , not only are at the bottom but are there because they both deserve to be and know it . |
| 22 | I could not wear it there because of my drysuit cuff , and had it just above the cuff to sleeve joint . |
| 23 | She was transferred from home to a private rehabilitation centre , but she was not happy there because she had little privacy , and her family could not travel to see her every day . |
| 24 | Do you like to be there because other people like to be there ? |
| 25 | Most of the old prisoners were there because they personally had no wish to escape , and although their reasons for not wishing to were usually quite sensible and not always selfish it was difficult for a new prisoner to grasp them . |
| 26 | He had overheard his uncle warning the two maid-servants not to go up there because it was too dangerous . |
| 27 | People coming into a residential home are there because they are in need of care — they are not able to care for themselves . |
| 28 | Much of the new equipment used in the last five Tours is there because LeMond used it first . |
| 29 | I talked to some of the people around there because I did n't want to get into trouble . |
| 30 | I was there because Karen had brought me . |