Example sentences of "because [pron] [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am in everyone 's bad books because I said that it was only a shop . |
| 2 | The Aldershot method was particularly important for me because I realised that it 's something we use every day or we see every day er and it emotionally prepares the audience the listener for what I 'm going to say . |
| 3 | I am proud to confess that , in the 1970s , I campaigned for a national minimum wage because I felt that it was the right thing to do then . |
| 4 | Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle . |
| 5 | Because she saw that it Was true . |
| 6 | However , there are both practical and legal problems in cases where the woman says that she consented through fear only : she did not resist , because she thought that it would be hopeless in the circumstances , she was terrified , or she feared serious violence . |
| 7 | One Birmingham woman was able to keep her button-carding work in her bedroom , which was important because she considered that it looked ‘ so poverty ’ to be seen doing it downstairs . |
| 8 | She could have decided not to go to the bus-stop , because she foresaw that it would all end in her death . |
| 9 | At that time the Conservative party voted against the Bill because we thought that it was entirely wrong . |
| 10 | In fact , in this case the unit was out on a CDL trial with quite inadequate documentation — the only documentation we had at that time was such that we were frightened to show it to the teacher because we realized that it would ‘ finish him off ’ . |
| 11 | The Greeks distrusted this theology , even though they had a deep respect for Augustine , because they thought that it was too anthropomorphic . |
| 12 | Mr Morrison says that he took on the job ‘ because they said that it would be difficult but it had to be done and that 's what appealed to me ’ . |
| 13 | I expect that everyone came to church here , this evening because they knew that it was a communion Sunday , and the sacrament of Holy Communion would be celebrated here this evening . |
| 14 | There was one , but the Austrians had it reduced in size because they believed that it might be used as an observation tower by the recalcitrant Milanese . |
| 15 | By and large , those who approved of conscription when it came did so because they believed that it was everyone 's duty to serve in the armed forces in any case . |
| 16 | Followers of the shotokai style broke away from the parent group of shotokan because they believed that it was deviating from the traditional teachings laid down by Funakoshi . |
| 17 | These industrialists welcomed foreign capital , because they felt that it stimulated economic activity in general , from which they could all benefit ( Petras and Cook 1973 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't believe you can go on like this and get away with it , ’ was his core phrase , prepared with care because he believed that it was in the King 's idiom . |
| 19 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 20 | He chose Touche Ross because he knew that it had a tie-up with Tohmatsu , the biggest accountancy firm in Japan . |
| 21 | But he was n't frightened , because he knew that it was all just a joke , a little comedy of the kind fathers like to play with their sons . |
| 22 | Sean decided to take the money because he realised that it would be difficult to live with no money . |
| 23 | It was an issue he preferred to keep quiet during his lifetime because he feared that it might have an adverse effect on his family . |
| 24 | He began it , but then he stopped because he decided that it was n't an interesting enough story . |
| 25 | and at one stage when I was walking in India we used to stay at bungalows and one was called Marian Shola and another was called Pine Shola , because it meant that it was a , it was a bungalow in a group of pine trees |
| 26 | Woolwich paid because it calculated that it was in its commercial interest to do so . |
| 27 | This was important , because it showed that it was not a protein , and so clearly differed from lysozyme . |
| 28 | The Committee 's reason for retaining buggery as a separate offence to deal with non-consensual anal intercourse is once again because of the distinctive nature of the conduct and because it considered that it was ‘ an especially humiliating and distressing experience . ’ |