Example sentences of "doing it because [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the former are slower ; or perhaps they are doing it because they want people to say they are working hard . |
| 2 | This is just well I mean it maybe connected with that but we 're doing it because they want to increase the car parks . |
| 3 | Some coloured children in this school are getting bad because of the way they get treated , and they make out as if we 're just doing it because we get low examination grades so we start getting bad with the teachers . |
| 4 | ‘ We are doing it because we believe that Scotland , with its innovative financial community is the location in which that investment will be best exploited . |
| 5 | Oh no I did n't I said I I did I was bit embarrassed about doing it because I 've already changed it twice , he said well he rang me again I said oh he must of got his records wrong . |
| 6 | I 'm not doing it because of that , I 'm doing it because I prefer to do it , but it is n't that , it 's just the fact that I wo n't be here tomorrow to go and |
| 7 | I 'm not doing it for monetary reward or because I 'm asked to ; I 'm doing it because I feel I have to do it . |
| 8 | As one single mother noted about the financial support she received from her mother , ‘ it 's not very nice her doing it because I feel I should be helping her ’ ( Cohen , 1991a , p. 40 ) . |
| 9 | I 'm not doing it for monetary reward or because I 'm asked to ; I 'm doing it because I feel I have to do it . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm only doing it because I want your mother to have a quiet lie-in , so you can turn that thing off for a start . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I thought I 'd explained that I 'm doing it because I want to . ’ |
| 12 | A lot of you are doing it because you want to go onto further or higher education , and you needed a third A Level to add to your other two . |