Example sentences of "[noun pl] because [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel sat there in the back of the Mercedes , unable to give him the stinging retort on her lips because she knew he would do what he promised , and she had a profound fear that the minute he made love to her fully the feelings she was desperately trying to suppress would keel over and completely overwhelm her , leaving her not just vulnerable but absolutely devastated by the reality of what they were . |
| 2 | I stopped going after six months because I felt I 'd resolved my immediate problem , and it had become a drag and an effort , largely because I had a problem with the silences . |
| 3 | But magistrate Maurice McHugh bound over five of the soldiers to keep the peace for 18 months because he felt they were not entirely innocent . |
| 4 | Many electors undoubtedly withheld votes from some of its constituency candidates because they judged them sure to be defeated . |
| 5 | They would have nothing to do with recognised ‘ sinners ’ such as tax-collectors because they considered them to be immoral . |
| 6 | She wanted to see his eyes because they mirrored his moods . |
| 7 | They did n't have visitors because it sent him into a fury . |
| 8 | Now erm the wealthy peasants or and sort of and , and other people who , who were possibly sort of er small landlords , they were trying to get involved in these associations because they felt they , they could see they were gathering pace and that the , the cost of exclusion would be very high . |
| 9 | For a while though , I had a psychological block to sailing in fresher winds because I thought my weight and strength was not up to it . |
| 10 | He did not tell his parents because he knew they would try to change his mind but he confided in a colleague at work . |
| 11 | He hated the Communists because they nicked his family 's bit of land and he hated the Germans because they treated them like pigs , ’ says Peter Solowka . |
| 12 | But in between meals , for tea and whenever they went out Jill relied on Farley 's Rusks because she knew it was a name she could trust . |
| 13 | erm arguing and er they was going on about this because if Mrs went to a farm and then said that she saw some hens there that did n't look particularly fit erm and said they 'd got to be culled and if the farmer thought otherwise then we got into all sorts of tangles because we knew nothing about poultry . |
| 14 | Such people have been disappointed , to say the least , that the Government postponed the community care programme by two years because they saw it as an opportunity for the balance of resources between residential care and community care to be readdressed . |
| 15 | Another funny story , also off the record is that that lay in a drawer for two years because they thought it was controversial , they thought it was which I find hilarious . |
| 16 | CHAMPION golfer Fred Couples has walked out on his wife of 12 years because she embarrassed him by dancing on a table , friends claimed last night . |
| 17 | He quit after four and a half years because he feared he would get tagged as a soap star . |
| 18 | And he said : ‘ I 've been in a state of panic on a snooker table at various times during the past two or three years because I knew I was n't playing well . |
| 19 | Haldane and Hogben 's Marxism made them critical of pedigree studies because it taught them that biological determinism should be supplemented by economic determinism . |
| 20 | The 12,000 unitholders who have invested in any of the 11 funds managed by Dumenil Trust Management , the French-owned unit trust group , found themselves this week locked into their investments when the fund managers suspended all dealings because they believed there was an error with pricing . |
| 21 | It is apparent from studies made that not all those summoned actually attended the heralds — a number ignored the college officers because they understood themselves too grand , of ancient family and proud lineage , and thus beyond any need to have their pedigrees recorded , much less authenticated . |
| 22 | She 'd reverted to her glasses because she thought they made her look older and more respectable , somehow , the way people wanted a doctor to look . |
| 23 | What happened with perishables because you said there was no power no electricity no fridges no freezers nothing . |
| 24 | In the light of Williams v. Roffey , should Mocatta J. have held that the performance of their contract by the yard was a benefit , and therefore consideration , to the owners because it enabled them to perform their very advantageous charter agreement with Shell ( corresponding to the avoidance of the penalty in Williams and the encouragement of the potential defaulters in Anangel ) ? |
| 25 | Conservatives were delighted by the appointment as his successor of Count Viktor Panin , a reactionary whose lack of enthusiasm for discussion was reflected in the fact that he kept parrots because they said what he told them to . |
| 26 | Girl On A Motorcycle and we still owe six pounds because we took it back late , so because of that we 've had nothing since |
| 27 | For instance , if a magistrate dismissed most cases because he thought they were false , the proportion of thefts which were reported in his district might decrease because people would decide that it was useless to report them . |
| 28 | During that time I had them out three times because I thought I 'd make them see . |
| 29 | In 1940 he had been quite prepared , if need be , to serve in a dangerous capacity in the ranks because he felt he could be more useful in such a rôle at that critical moment in the country 's affairs , rather than go through the extra time and training there and then for a commission . |
| 30 | There must have been some magic in his fingers because they made her head tingle . |