Example sentences of "because they do n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then overnight they redraft them because they did n't really matter in the first place . |
| 2 | Fewer people were coming forward to take jobs because they did n't like having to go to school . |
| 3 | I was going out with this guy called John Colley whose relations were sort of minor gangsters in London and I went to work for them because they did n't mind my not being English . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's because they did n't live long enough , ’ he explained . |
| 5 | Limited — not because they did n't want to care , they just did n't know how to care for this type of patient … . |
| 6 | There was no anaesthetic because they did n't have any . |
| 7 | They never did anything like this to his brother , you know , because they did n't dare . ’ |
| 8 | They were battling against the odds because they did n't appear to have the right equipment . |
| 9 | They had left her at school as long as they could , because they did n't know what to do with her ; but now she was to take this course and later get a job on a newspaper . |
| 10 | We did a lot of woodwork at the school because they did n't think we could deal with books . |
| 11 | Rock was rebelling against my parents , but jazz was rebelling against my parents as well as all my peers , because they did n't have any idea what I was talking about ! ’ |
| 12 | But I 've heard him quoted as saying that one of the reasons he did n't come was because they did n't have a venue large enough , because people would want to come from all over Europe . |
| 13 | Years ago I used to do isometric exercises because they did n't make me puff and they seemed easy . |
| 14 | Last year 1,050 people lost the right to call themselves chartered accountants because they did n't stump up by 30 June . |
| 15 | In addition , four people in the fifty to sixty-five age bracket left because they did n't like the family service and other changes which the young new minister had introduced . |
| 16 | The two essential points are that fewer than one in three had considered paying cash as a real alternative ; and that half said they bought on credit because they did n't have the cash , while about another quarter gave answers ( like ‘ needed it right away ’ ) which boil down to much the same . |
| 17 | I knew Mum would not have done so because they did n't get on , although I never found out why . |
| 18 | Some friends who have lost their virginity did so because they did n't know what was going on . |
| 19 | When Business Age magazine published their list of the richest women in Britain this week , they left Diana 's name off it — because they did n't know she had any dosh of her own . |
| 20 | It seems the Reillys , who live in Dorset , stockpiled their life savings in the car because they did n't believe in banks or building societies . |
| 21 | There was little recognition of the fact that Labour lost not because they changed but because they did n't change enough . |
| 22 | True , he attempted to look a little more learned by wearing silver-rimmed spectacles that were dwarfed by his large face but were , he thought , all the more pedagoguish because they did n't flatter . |
| 23 | Cami knickers and french knickers became popular because they did n't take much material and were economic in coupons . |
| 24 | At first they suffered great privations — mainly because they did n't have a permanent supply of drinking water — but recently a well has been dug , and today they have houses and solar electricity . |
| 25 | ‘ They are responsible for a lot of the machine tools that we have now , ’ Gerwyn says , ‘ and they developed them because they did n't believe in wasted labour . |
| 26 | But Faye and Roberta — well , they are n't middle class , to put it mildly , but surely they — yes , they would have picked up the know-how , the expertise , so if they did n't get things straight , it is because they did n't want to . |
| 27 | I do n't know if it was because it never happened , or because they did n't think I was the right person to talk to . ’ |
| 28 | She added , ‘ I 'm sure it 's only because of safety in the smallest possible number , only his lawyers and my mother 's father have the address , aside from me , and I only have it because they did n't like to leave me here without one . ’ |
| 29 | There were no games , partly because they did n't know any , partly because all five were united , in this if in nothing else , in the belief that dice , cards , charades , were a frivolous waste of time . |
| 30 | It was principally because they did n't perform a greenbelt function . |