Example sentences of "because they [verb] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the end it was n't enough because they had n't the courage to confront and defy the handful of men who control the trade union bureaucracy . |
| 2 | Because they had n't done any management , Debbie felt Landlords were entitled only to the 10 per cent tenant-finding fee and therefore owed her £2,400 ( 3 months ' rent plus the deposit ) . |
| 3 | Perhaps some forgiving souls might protest that former East German athletes had faced a particular difficulty in giving up the bad habits imposed on them by the success-seeking machine of the old Communist regime , and that it would be unfair virtually to close off their future just because they had n't yet properly learned another way of doing things . |
| 4 | As I saw it , they were either downmarket Wimpy bars or precious bistros where all you could hear were the sounds of the cutlery hitting the plate , and people would cough before speaking because they had n't said anything for such a long time , what with all the hush . |
| 5 | However , when they had used HP , they had often got into trouble over it , usually because they had n't kept up the payments . |
| 6 | He emphasized the surname slightly , knowing he was being unfair because they had n't known it during those first days when Bacci had sat by her bedside . |
| 7 | What was the reason for the growth between eighteen hundred and eighteen fifty because they had n't had sort of mass industrialization industrialization which had caused population growth in other countries so was there any particular reason why there 's should have trebled in that time ? |
| 8 | Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire . |
| 9 | People used to consistently park because they had n't got garages . |
| 10 | And then that one fell through because they had n't done the repairs on , so they gen us this flat . |
| 11 | He asked them why elephants did n't ride bicycles and explained that it was because they had n't any thumbs to ring the bell with . |
| 12 | that they they were n't as s solid as the older men let's say or was it because they had n't |
| 13 | But by the time I 'd got to the summer term the things that had failed had failed and I knew why , and I was n't feeling too inclined to change them particularly at the time because they had n't failed to the point where the class was in chaos . |
| 14 | It was a measure of Willi 's popularity that , even though his pre-production party was known about by nearly everyone who was anyone in Hochhauser , and even though the guest list was extremely small , no-one ever felt slighted because they had n't been invited . |
| 15 | There was a stage about two thirds into the first half when ( because they had n't scored yet despite aggressive assaults on the West Ham box ) Batty square-balled it after crossing into their area . |
| 16 | the wife , the husband and the children because they had n't got the continual visual simulation a picture paints a thousand words , this is where we have O H P . |
| 17 | Probably because they had n't re-used they got there by two or three or four years time when they came on to the next level of management the junior management erm we did this with them again and you would begin to find certain skills had evolved and certain certain team strengths had arisen because they do change over the years . |
| 18 | Often the timbers were no more than columns of sort of dampish dust because they had n't been able to breathe in this kind of brick envelope . |
| 19 | It , they were at these lodging houses because they had n't got the work , nowhere else to go . |
| 20 | Because they had n't , I 'd , they usually say ring after one so I rang at half past one and they 'd emptied all the machines and everything . |
| 21 | Then overnight they redraft them because they did n't really matter in the first place . |
| 22 | Fewer people were coming forward to take jobs because they did n't like having to go to school . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's because they did n't live long enough , ’ he explained . |
| 25 | Limited — not because they did n't want to care , they just did n't know how to care for this type of patient … . |
| 26 | There was no anaesthetic because they did n't have any . |
| 27 | They never did anything like this to his brother , you know , because they did n't dare . ’ |
| 28 | They were battling against the odds because they did n't appear to have the right equipment . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | We did a lot of woodwork at the school because they did n't think we could deal with books . |