Example sentences of "'s [adv] because [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No it 's only because we made some on holiday when we went |
| 2 | It 's only because we 've had the bad luck to find ourselves in competition with Robert and Ian , otherwise we could have had all their present clients . ’ |
| 3 | And it 's only because they have no rights in what they 're negotiating for . |
| 4 | If the records popular when the University first opened are recognisable to us , it 's only because they have recently enjoyed their third or fourth revival in the charts . |
| 5 | And that 's only because I had good teachers — I do n't think that I have any special superhuman gift for it . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's only because I know you so well , Peachcake . |
| 7 | It 's only because I know Rome quite well that they 've asked me — Athens I do n't know at all . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Well , lad , it 's only because I think you 're worth somebody better than her . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's only because you know I 'll be more efficient at the job . |
| 10 | " That 's only because you 've had no practice , " Bower-bird said reassuringly . |
| 11 | I dare say , though , knowing you as I do , that it 's only because you 've thought up some other diabolical vengeance to inflict on me . ’ |
| 12 | And it 's only because you said , previously er , that she was a sort of feminist that when , he said do this do that and she said very frankly to him do you think just because I 'm going to marry you I shall commit ? |
| 13 | ‘ Well , it 's only because you gave me a leg-up at the beginning , explaining the theory and such . ’ |
| 14 | It 's only because you did n't tell your bloody brothers ! |
| 15 | ‘ It 's only because you stayed — and did what you did — that I can make light of it . ’ |
| 16 | It 's only because he wants to prevent the bomb going off that this belief of his makes him shoot . |
| 17 | He reckons it 's only because he loves the world and the people he knows that he hates the prevailing ‘ world order ’ . |
| 18 | But that 's only because he has learned to leave the jokes in the dressing room . |
| 19 | But no , it 's only because he reminds me a bit of him , that gloomy bit , that deep bit , that bit that dominated when his head sank into his shoulders and his mouth turned down and the light went from his eyes , that bit that took over when he resisted and turned inwards and moped . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , David , really , that 's only because he knows perfectly well he 'll sell when we say how much . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's only because she thinks all you 've achieved is quite amazing . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's only because she loves you . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's always talking about going to see her nephew and his children , but she 's never gone and it 's only because she has n't enough money for the ticket . ’ |
| 24 | It 's all because I got stabbed |
| 25 | For example , in fifteen fifty seven/eight , when Queen Mary lost Calais to the French , the income of the town corporation doubled in that year from three hundred pounds to six hundred , and that 's entirely because they pulled in awful lot of French boats and then charged them all a lot of ransom money before they sent them back to France . |
| 26 | For example , in fifteen fifty-seven , eight , when Queen Mary lost Calais to the French , the income of the town corporation doubled in that year from three hundreds pounds to six hundred and that 's entirely because they pulled in an awful lot of French boats and then charged them all a lot of ransom money before they sent them back to France . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And it 's just because we hate it that we 'll beat you . |
| 29 | Sometimes it 's just because we want our curiosity satisfied , and that was obviously the case with Nicodemus . |
| 30 | But that 's just because they wear black and the bass player glides in synch with the disaster area that is the guitar player . |