Example sentences of "[noun sg] because [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anna only went to her meetings if she was accompanied , and never after dark because she trusted no-one else to guard the children . |
| 2 | Half of them in self-defence because I found myself so attracted to you . |
| 3 | Gary Player did a lot of sponsorship on the black side because we felt we had to help . |
| 4 | No and we 'd got three young girls , new , new girls and I saw those and I must have been thinking about Mandy and the car because they said something about oh when we leave we 're all going on a picnic to and I think it was Kettering or quite some time aw some |
| 5 | I left right , right , I ran off I jumped out the car because I heard them driving round the corner |
| 6 | Well he , he 's on himself hanging over his car because he said it 's , it 's , that it was an inconvenience cos they were late for work , he suppose to be getting a taxi into work every day and back , but where 's his proof that he did ? |
| 7 | Private Barry Aindow ( 23 ) said he fired at the car because he feared his colleagues ' lives were in danger . |
| 8 | Explanations in the intentional mode express the relation between the action and the reason ( e.g. , John wound up the car because he wanted it to go ) . |
| 9 | John wound up the toy car because he wanted it to go . |
| 10 | As it turned out , Jimmy raced his carburettor car because he preferred it , and led until the Climax blew up . |
| 11 | He allowed her to walk across to the counter for a cup of tea because he felt she was flustered , not an emotion one easily associated with Sergeant Henley , and it might settle her down . |
| 12 | He relied on me a great deal because he knew I always knew what to do . |
| 13 | In old age he used to regret that he did so well in the classical scholarship because it caused him not to read history . |
| 14 | I was so downhearted and at such a low ebb because he made it painfully clear I did n't figure in that great club 's future , however much I loved the place . |
| 15 | Blue suited her and she 'd worn her pearl and diamond brooch because he wanted everyone to see it . |
| 16 | You dreaded anyone coming in for fabric because you knew you would n't be able to get more than three yards without a fault . ’ |
| 17 | I waited for her to bring up the subject of Graham 's murder because I knew she would have been very upset . |
| 18 | BOURNEMOUTH gave Harry Redknapp a £100,000 golden handshake when he left the club because they thought he was quitting football , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 19 | Even though he had been expecting it — hoping for it , really — he resented the interruption because it broke his chain of concentration . |
| 20 | It was a trick , a way of helping his mother , and a cruel experiment because he thought he knew best . |
| 21 | She could no longer bring to the man she loved her untouched innocence , and , worse than that , she could not bear his lovemaking because it reminded her so bitterly of what had been done to her . |
| 22 | She must have changed her mind because she called us back . |
| 23 | I was fond of that duvet because I thought it was hers . |
| 24 | ‘ It was a kind of torture because it reminded me of how you made love . ’ |
| 25 | Dot did not know what Psalms were , but she felt she was beginning to understand about quiet and gentle greenness because she saw it all around her . |
| 26 | ‘ Either at the request of some lady because it disturbed their bouncing on the royal bed . |
| 27 | Allan Roberts raised the issue because he realised its importance for lesbian and gay liberation , but he then tried to dismiss it because he also realised that even to articulate the question ran counter to Labour 's ‘ duty to win ’ . |
| 28 | We actually put it down in our own manifesto because we thought it was a good idea . |
| 29 | Austin Donnellan went on trial at his own insistence because he said he was unhappy with the way the disciplinary committee at London University 's King 's College was dealing with the case . |
| 30 | I knew MacQuillan had engineered the scene because he hoped I would blurt out my resignation . |