Example sentences of "[be] [adv] because [pers pn] do " in BNC.
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1 | I wonder if she has n't been down because she do n't know if you know or not . |
2 | It might be partly because I did n't kick up a fuss when I lost the captaincy . |
3 | She thought : I must be here because it does n't matter to me much whether I live or die . |
4 | er which may or may not be there because we do n't know how much her income is . |
5 | I think if Jeff Beck ever remembered having met me it would be precisely because I did n't crawl all over him in sycophancy . |
6 | It makes us look impressive , which we are n't because we did n't know the half of it either and had to look it all up . |
7 | The boys from the village kiss their girls when I am there because they do not care , but he only kisses them when he is being watched . |
8 | The barber took a knife to the thicket , weighed it when it was off , and gave her 2½ lb of hair wrapped up in tissue paper which the nurse briskly took from her as soon as they were outside because she did n't believe in being morbid . |
9 | Erm you gave a a very full account of the sort of pressures that erm you were under because you did n't have a job and you related it to the necessity of involving yourself in what you euphemistically called the black economy . |
10 | It 's only because you did n't tell your bloody brothers ! |
11 | This is not because they do n't enjoy the subject but because of the way the courses are structured . |
12 | But , explained John Gapper , the secretary of the Labour and Industrial Correspondents Group : ‘ His office says this is not because he does not like us ’ . |
13 | As Wittgenstein observed : ‘ If however I doubt whether a spider feels pain , it is not because I do n't know what to expect ’ ( Z 564 ) . |
14 | Its figure is higher than the CBO 's largely because it does not take into account the fact that the quarterly long-bond auctions had already been pruned over the past year , from around $12 billion to $1.25 billion . |
15 | Well okay , those of you who liked the Shakespeare better , for whatever reasons , even if it 's just because you did n't get to grips with Johnson , which of the plays , first of all , erm did you find most interesting ? |
16 | Perhaps it 's just because you do n't like her ? |
17 | So I hope you 'll understand that if I do n't include my subscription with this letter it 's not because I do n't support you and if I shop in Smiths it 's not because I want them to sell pornography . |
18 | I do n't really want to be seen as part of the team and it 's not because I do n't like them — they 're all nice people — it 's just that I do n't want to be The Word 's latest wanker . |
19 | It 's not because I do n't love you and Dad , you know that . |
20 | and it 's like I said mum it 's not because I do n't trust Angela |
21 | Of course sometimes when it does n't work that depresses me because it 's not because it does n't work , it 's because of the constraints of the system that you can not make it work . |
22 | When mink and otters manage to share a habitat — and , on both sides of the Atlantic , they often do — it 's usually because they do n't compete too much for food . |
23 | Impressionistically , however , the courts seem more reluctant now to use customs and usages to imply contract terms , although this is possibly because they do not draw the distinction clearly enough between mod-ifying a contract and understanding its terms . |
24 | no it 's probably because they do n't buy her any . |
25 | I think it 's mainly because I do n't really get enough exercise this time of the year I do n't |
26 | Perhaps it 's simply because they do n't really know how to go about it . |
27 | well meaning people but I mean the reason they 're saying that is simply because they do n't like what they 're doing full stop . |
28 | And the other reason they do n't want to turn up is primarily because they do know that we have compulsory purchase powers and the planning — the paper put forward by the Chief Planning Officer today was a vindication of wage for a good many years , a good many months rather , that we do have compulsory purchase powers and we are able to use them and it was specifically asked at the Panel today , by both Monty Finnist and Sir Monty Finnist and Tony Christopher , why does n't the City Council market this site and use its compulsory purchase powers and that 's one question to address tomorrow as a politician who could make that decision . |
29 | This was not because I did n't want to dance but because I had not yet learned how to do it properly . |
30 | Cecilia always left coming to Tina 's until noon was past because she did not want to find her daughter in bed . |