Example sentences of "because [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It was greeted in silence because no-one understood what he had said .
2 More than 600 people a day die of a heart attack in the UK and many lives are lost because no-one knows what to do in an emergency .
3 He identified her easily because everyone looked her way .
4 She said she had always been interested in science , but had been put off because everyone told her it was n't for girls , only boys .
5 Salah said it was much easier to persuade people in a small community : Huaiwiri had only twenty-seven households and girls could continue schooling after puberty because everyone knew everyone else , because in any case no house was closed to any other , and everyone knew that the girls would come to no harm .
6 How do you know you are not distorting the situation totally because everyone know they 're taking part in an evaluation exercise ?
7 But , perhaps because everyone does it , teaching has a traditionally low status in the medical world .
8 It seemed like the right reaction as well , because everyone thought we were ambient intellectuals going around posing in mirrors and stuff . ’
9 One adoptive parent of a black child heard the child saying ‘ I 'm glad I 'm not black , the black children get teased ; but I do n't want to be brown either , because everyone notices me because I 'm different . ’
10 A more effective cry is ‘ Fire ’ because everyone sticks their heads out in case it is their house or car that is about to be burnt down .
11 ‘ I found the pressure hard to handle because everyone expects something special from you every single week .
12 The issue is on offer in this country until Friday of this week and is likely to attract considerable attention from would be UK investors — not least of all because everyone knows what Disneyworld is .
13 Because everyone knows they have a direct channel of communication to the Palace , their ear is sought .
14 This is great news because everyone knows there are lots of things one can do to animals in the name of medical progress that one ca n't ethically do to people .
15 I 've got a friend who recently dyed her hair purple because everyone knows you are n't going to get a decent — not to mention interesting — job with a ‘ punky ’ hairstyle , pierced nose and scruffy clothes , and she wants to stay in college .
16 Just as we are on the way out of the desert , it would be plain daft to turn back because someone thinks they have seen a hazy mirage on the horizon . ’
17 It was removed , apparently because someone thought it might become the butt of jokes .
18 You see because someone took me in the car .
19 This is n't better because someone says it 's better , or because there 's a conspiracy by the MCC to keep cudgels out of Lords .
20 Because someone told you something and your imagination got to work , generating negative thoughts and images that gripped you .
21 ‘ You believed you were vampires because someone told you that too . ’
22 I wonder was it because someone sent you a letter ?
23 She told me you left the station because someone arrived who could let your secrets out , and you could n't bear the shame . ’
24 Addicts do n't stop what they 're doing because someone gives them a talking to .
25 Now she was a real woman because someone loved her .
26 Because I sold it to him first .
27 I did n't bother getting a drive , be because I sold my computer , but I was gon na get one .
28 I 'm growing them for the wedding , they 'll have to get cut because I break them .
29 At least the manager did n't pounce on me just because I shut my eyes for a few moments . ’
30 Because I assume they pay er , just for one licence now ?
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