Example sentences of "because [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just her name , ‘ Sophie ’ , spoken close to her ear , because no-one else deserved to share the moment . |
| 2 | But I think it could have been a White-tipped shark , because nothing else has the aggression to come forward and attack the boat . |
| 3 | And because nothing ever seems healthier or more warming than looking back at something we have just done and realising , ‘ Mmmm . |
| 4 | ‘ But do n't fed any sense of anticlimax , because everyone here wants to meet you , and all sorts of parties are being arranged , and several people are going to be calling you in the morning . ’ |
| 5 | I say in particular our union because everyone here knows we probably have the largest and best training programme of any other union in Britain today . |
| 6 | Given scant information , one is expected to accept their procedures without question , and then pay inflated bills because everyone else does . |
| 7 | Is it just for the sake of appearances because everyone else does ? |
| 8 | Is it just because everyone else does , because she is the kind of person that people ask to parties , because her name inscribes itself by automatic writing on guest lists ? |
| 9 | If it looks and feels good they should n't drastically change their hair just because everyone else has . |
| 10 | Perhaps lawyers and judges accept that proposition as true by convention , which means true just because everyone else accepts it , the way chess players all accept that a king can move only one square at a time . |
| 11 | We have all heard the stories of season ticket holders being found to stand for a match because someone else had been allocated a ticket for that seat . |
| 12 | What she had now was twice what she had suffered before this — a love so very agonising , a love without hope because someone else had the right and the claim to him now and that was why he had kissed her that way — to let her know how hopeless it all was . |
| 13 | Similarly , it 's no good discovering that you are going to need an autocue and a slide projector when there 's no money left to buy or hire them , or that your guest speaker will only fly first class when you 've allocated £200 in your budget for his travel costs because someone vaguely remembered that £200 was the ‘ Apex fare ’ . |
| 14 | So it looks as if er nature has kind of erm struck a bargain in this respect , that each parent can contribute exactly half , but I think it 's , we 're only just beginning to find out about what happens then and my guess is about internal conflict between genes because I strongly suspect that there must be a lot of that going on because , as I think you 've rightly seen , if we take this view of evolution as selecting for individual genes , then we would expect conflict even within the gender . |
| 15 | The answer is lobbed back , at top speed and volume : ‘ BECAUSE I FUCKING DO N'T ! |
| 16 | Rain said : ‘ Tim , it 's a good story but it 's not worth anything to me because I already know about it . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You , because I already know that you 're kind , and discreet , ’ Cindy said . |
| 18 | I shall not be shocked , because I already know what you are up to . |
| 19 | Maybe I was being a bit greedy because I already had the one I have mentioned before made by Mrs Fawcett from West Birk Hatt . |
| 20 | Next summer mum was told she would have to go back into hospital for a long time , and because I already knew the place , I agreed to go back to the Cheshire Home for this period . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't hesitate about working with Craig because I already knew him and he 's a wonderful guy . |
| 22 | If then it would seem artificial to analyse and describe the whole process when asked the reason for my choice , is that not because I already have the vocabulary of pleasure to name it ? |
| 23 | It 's not difficult to ride because I already have one at home in Argentina . ’ |
| 24 | And it swallowed up my four whole units , because I even got to say what the answer was and I thought that was forty P , and I thought , I 'm never ever going to phone into one of those things again . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , you see , it was partly my fault , because I just kept saying you were n't in and he got very abusive because he did n't believe me . |
| 26 | Partly too , because I just like looking at beautiful books . |
| 27 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 28 | ‘ I … ah … called you up here , Andy , because I just got a request from London that you go visit with them . |
| 29 | Yeah but she would because I just said it and you said nothing . |
| 30 | I have n't got their addresses because I just listened to what she told me . |