Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does n't like seeing me because it makes him remember my mother . |
| 2 | CAMRA have picked it because it represents an ideal almost gone from the 1990s , a no nonsense drinking and talking den . |
| 3 | Like the death penalty , you want it because it makes you feel better , not because it 's a deterrent or any nonsense like that . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Early in my journalistic career I learned that one should never use a preposition to end a sentence with — remembering it because it committed the error it condemned ; whatever the consequence , I was now fully convinced that Moose Jaw was not a bad place to be from . |
| 9 | Education , for example , benefits those who receive it because it enhances their employment prospects or because they enjoy studying , but it is also held to yield external benefits in producing a socialized , literate and informed citizenry . |
| 10 | We have adopted it because it gives greater strength and dignity and fullness to the design . |
| 11 | The cold was intense , but I welcomed it because it gave us an excuse to lie close together for warmth . |
| 12 | I could n't understand it because it contradicts itself twice . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't mind Mrs Meadows being pleased , and I can understand it because it makes things a lot easier with Mr Meadows , but she 's sort of sympathising with Mum because I 'm not engaged ! ’ |
| 14 | Emphasise benefits over features and use a sales vocabulary ( e.g. your production people will like it because it helps to overcome ‘ down time ’ through waiting for the material to set ) . |
| 15 | I know but looks good and I do n't like it because it looks good . |
| 16 | There was no legislation to enforce the use of the safety lamp and many miners did not like it because it did not give out as much light as a candle . |
| 17 | I am glad they 've approved it because it 's , it 's removed any uncertainty there might have been about the nineteen nineties , slightly disappointing that they chose to tinker with our wording here and there , but , but by and large , not too unhappy . |
| 18 | I 'll always keep it because it shows the original sort of colours that Fair Isles were made in . |
| 19 | I also like it because it does n't offer any false promises of amazing results ; instead , what it has to offer is a reasonably priced , workable upgrade from four tracks to eight with a more than creditable end result ( as long as the guidelines in the manual and certain obvious rules are observed ) . |
| 20 | I mean part of it is what I think and part of it is that I think that I like it because it works , that these things — I basically am unconvinced much of the modern tradition . |
| 21 | He agreed to do it because it flattered his ego . |
| 22 | Similarly , if you are in covenant relationship with others in a church , then when such a need arises it is quite reasonable to do it because it needs doing . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Now he is said to regret it because it has inflamed the Thatcherites . |
| 25 | ‘ I remember it because it had grey military markings , ’ added Duncan . |
| 26 | I remember how he signed it because it sounded so impressive : ‘ T. Buckland Kettering ’ . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Each test-tube contains the machine tools and the raw material , but so far it is sitting idle , doing nothing because it lacks a blueprint to work from . |
| 29 | Above left The wallpaper frieze in the sitting room came from America and was fearfully expensive , but Angela could n't resist it because it reminded her of two pictures in her bedroom , of fruit and flowers painted on black velvet . |
| 30 | sometimes there is a sense of doing it because it needs practising ; |