Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd , it 's funny because I always wanted a girl |
| 2 | It 's because you just got here . |
| 3 | She acknowledges that such a claim can not be substantiated because she also received orthodox medical treatment . |
| 4 | times for auctioning though was er when shops went bankrupt , er especially chocolate shops , cos then we had a good time after he 'd done because we usually got loads of chocolate which was a luxury . . |
| 5 | ’ We had one month when we were losing thousands of pounds worth of clothes each week , ’ says branch manager Sue Turner ’ It was strange because we never caught anyone . |
| 6 | Or they should have had , because we never laid our hands on it . |
| 7 | This was because they generally had low and insecure incomes , so they could not obtain a mortgage for buying their own suburban house . |
| 8 | The risk of injury might become so great that the timid fighters , which never get hurt because they always run away first , might then be at an advantage . |
| 9 | I ran home from school in the Fifties and I would be crying because they really sold us all the fear of a nuclear explosion . |
| 10 | Several times , Gedge had persuaded him to stay with the band when he had become disgruntled and ‘ warnings ’ had not been given because he ostensibly wanted to leave anyway . |
| 11 | I vividly remember , although I was in a thoroughly sleepy condition , telling him that in my view the only proper justification for an enquiry about Mr Profumo 's personal life depended on the possibility that some act of his might have compromised security , because he obviously had information which was secret . |
| 12 | when this place come it should have been in my name were n't it , because he never done nothing for it |
| 13 | In Bangladesh , for instance , the birth rate in one village went up after the pill was introduced : because it both interfered with lactation ( 90 per cent of the users were lactating mothers — and lactation is known to help prevent ovulation ) , and was abandoned by 80 per cent of the women because of side effects . |
| 14 | ‘ Because it luckily missed houses , they are just carrying on . ’ |
| 15 | The basic assumption of this form of life , extending from school to university , was that imaginative literature was inherently valuable , and that it was valuable because it pleasurably conveyed emotion and profound insights into the life of things . |