Example sentences of "because i [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | But erm er the school days I think were were really the best days of our lives , but they we were the happiest days anyway because I enjoyed them and most kids enjoyed school in those days , not like it is today . |
| 2 | They liked me because I told them dirty jokes , made good after-dinner speeches , did a reasonable job for them in terms of links with government and that kind of thing , and had a bit of class . |
| 3 | I know that because I heard them . ’ |
| 4 | I left right , right , I ran off I jumped out the car because I heard them driving round the corner |
| 5 | I feel like I sentenced them to death because I spotted them . |
| 6 | Not that I 'm complaining because I realized they had a job to do , but they were all firing their questions at once , and I do like to give a civil , considered reply . |
| 7 | I did n't like to call out because I knew they were busy getting lunch . |
| 8 | I told my friends I was going to the dentist this afternoon because I knew they 'd be jealous if they knew I 'd seen Home Alone 2 before anyone else . |
| 9 | Faintly I could make out , because I knew they should be there , the sculpted masks of Tragedy and Comedy above the central doorway . |
| 10 | And , and you think to yourself oh we 've seen everything , but I used to get pleasure in taking somebody to the potteries because I knew they had n't seen it and it would be like ooh , when they got there , you could see the shock , the surprise in their eyes when they went in there |
| 11 | And I thought they were going to the meeting er on Friday because I knew they were both off |
| 12 | ‘ I was shocked in the sense that I knew what inspectors could do , but I was n't worried because I thought they were just wasting their time . ’ |
| 13 | At first she did not let them in ‘ because I thought they were drunks from the pub next door ’ . |
| 14 | To tell you the truth , before I went to prison I used to meet people who had been to prison and I did n't want to talk to them because I thought they were funny . |
| 15 | It was I who decided to remove our troops from the Gulf , because I thought they 'd become more of an irritant than a stabilising factor . |
| 16 | ‘ I was afraid of the Africans because I thought they would take over my farm . |
| 17 | Because I felt them last night and felt ooh this sticky anyway oops |
| 18 | We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out . |
| 19 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 20 | I guess it 's because I hit them up for so many guitars , they had to even out the balance ! ! |
| 21 | You know how they 're always shouting at me because I hit them too hard ? |
| 22 | None of my chat-up lines ever worked , probably because I learned them too early — I was heavily influenced by American television programmes of the '50s which we saw in Australia . |
| 23 | But she was n't planning to go to her parents — I know because I rang them on Tuesday when she still had n't turned up . ’ |
| 24 | THIS IS NOT because I climbed them as a child . |
| 25 | Oh because I lost them and my mum wo n't buy me any more . |
| 26 | and they had all these great pads you know and I had all these maternity pads because I needed them you know I had to pad up and I had to and I felt so embarrassed |
| 27 | While I was afflicted with serious English composition and English literature , I was reading Scott , Fenimore Cooper , Henty , and the travellers , because I loved them ; I was also thinking and talking in a manner which owed little to those dignified exercises , though the day was to come when I spoke very much as I wrote … |
| 28 | I did n't lose her till she was over twenty but So but I think it was desperation because if I 'd had money I should 've had a house full of children because I loved them , you see , I 've always loved children . |
| 29 | I did n't think there were any prints on the other rounds , and there ca n't be any of mine because I handled them in gloves . |
| 30 | because I bought them all before t I started |