Because Sentence Examples

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  • I think he felt included because he was helping as much as we were.

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  • They were angry because their plans had been discovered.

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  • Because you are sorry for him!

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  • Is it because winning the award gives them more confidence?

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  • He was in trouble because his scholars would not study.

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  • I am sorry because they cannot see much.

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  • I don't want you to give it up because of me.

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  • He is delighted because I am here.

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  • First of all, I married Alex because I love him.

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  • I guess because I like cooking.

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  • Don't let him suffer because of me.'

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  • Because I know it will end in nothing....

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  • But they were in great numbers, and the Champion could not shout much because he had to save his breath for fighting.

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  • The statement is not there because you want the log per se but because the logging of the actions is what documents how much you need to pay.

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  • I love you very dearly because you are my friend.

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  • Because it happened so!

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  • But that's because I would be sharing the experience with another human being, and human beings form connections with other human beings.

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  • I say "could" because I doubt they have all those databases loaded yet, but you get the idea.

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  • Because human ability is distributed unevenly and technology multiplies ability of the talented, the spread between the rich and poor will rise more and more.

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  • Her words puzzled me very much because I did not then understand anything unless I touched it.

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  • I love to go to church, because I like to see my friends.

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  • The Grand Duke was there because it suited him to be.

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  • I am sorry for them because they cried much.

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  • During the national war he was inactive because he was not needed.

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  • The country requires a minimum wage because workers paid below the poverty line have an added cost on society.

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  • Thousands of people research diseases because they individually want to cure them.

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  • I trust you because of your actions.

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  • That is what we expect to be able to do, because it is theoretically possible in a hundred different ways.

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  • I just thought it was because he was so good looking.

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  • I was told it would be dangerous because of the enemy.

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  • Was it because he thought she wouldn't?

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  • The business looks at this new country and decides to move there because, from their standpoint, they can save costs and be more efficient.

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  • I hope you think about me and love me because I am a good little child.

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  • It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.

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  • He came because of Sonya.

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  • And this thought occurred to him just because he himself desired a victim, something on which to vent his rage.

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  • I refer to history extensively in these pages because I believe historical people are exactly like us, only in different circumstances.

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  • A problem arises because of the strong correlation between standard of living and energy consumption.

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  • We have to work at jobs to create wealth because as we live our lives, we consume wealth.

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  • We still have people in boring, dead-end jobs only because we haven't built a machine to do the work.

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  • And she began to cry again because he had such a noble soul.

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  • Moscow when occupied by the enemy did not remain intact like Berlin, Vienna, and other towns, simply because its inhabitants abandoned it and did not welcome the French with bread and salt, nor bring them the keys of the city.

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  • I remember because you seemed so sincere.

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  • He didn't tell her about the money because it would lead to questions - both about the money and the fact that he had been hiding it from her.

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  • The company should insure its workers because if uninsured workers end up in the ER, the burden falls on society, not the company.

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  • That was because I saw everything with the strange, new sight that had come to me.

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  • I am very glad because I love the warm sunshine and the fragrant flowers.

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  • An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets himself and other people.

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  • I burned my fingers because it was dark.

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  • This is because technology is cumulative.

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  • It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it so pleasant and acceptable to me.

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  • It is because they do not obey the hint which God gives them, nor accept the pardon which he freely offers to all.

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  • I knew, because I felt the same way.

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  • Having snapped at an officer for an unpolished badge, at another because his line was not straight, he reached the third company.

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  • I can tell you quite clearly, because I constructed nearly all our entrenchments.

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  • The peasants say that a cold wind blows in late spring because the oaks are budding, and really every spring cold winds do blow when the oak is budding.

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  • Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.

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  • I thought you decided you couldn't live with the loneliness on the ranch because I was gone so much.

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  • Yes, because you're a Guardian.

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  • I submit that the Internet is not defined in that way because it is a technology without an implicit purpose.

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  • Because this is the only power they know, it is the only power they respect.

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  • I knew the sky was black, because all the heat, which meant light to me, had died out of the atmosphere.

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  • But the officer thrashed him because he had to get on as quickly as possible.

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  • It would not take place because the commanders not merely all recognized the position to be impossible, but in their conversations were only discussing what would happen after its inevitable abandonment.

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  • They could not believe it because they alone knew what their life meant to them, and so they neither understood nor believed that it could be taken from them.

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  • Because now we know.

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  • Because it was Cade.

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  • Then I started worrying about how I was going to take care of the baby and how much it would miss because I didn't have the money to...

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  • I'd be lying if I didn't admit we have expenses and we're limited in what we can do because of real life restraints, but we're not in this for a golden purse.

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  • I must have fallen back to sleep because when I opened my eyes again, the room was nearly dark.

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  • And yet they do, because fraud is a small part of the overall picture.

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  • Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live.

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  • It would be particularly pleasant to him to dishonor my name and ridicule me, just because I have exerted myself on his behalf, befriended him, and helped him.

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  • And then to call him out, reckoning on Fedya not fighting because he owed him money!

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  • It could not exist because it was senseless and unattainable.

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  • I wanted a wife and children, but I didn't want to risk losing them because of the ranch.

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  • Only a sense it was summer because the corn was high.

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  • We were all at risk, simply because we could identify him!

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  • The site is helpful in tracking the status of our tips because they keep asking questions until they get answers.

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  • Because now, we are friends.

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  • Because television was radio with pictures, the first television shows were simply men in suits standing in front of microphones reading the news.

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  • Because of Moore's Law, computers will get faster and storage will be cheaper.

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  • Everyone wins in trade, because goods are reallocated in a way that increases utility to all parties involved.

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  • It all happened because of military pacts in which an attack on one party was viewed as an attack on all.

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  • Twitter is profound, and it unquestionably furthers peace because it promotes the interests of the many against the interests of the few.

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  • She gave me a kiss and then ran away, because she was a shy little girl.

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  • And I love her, because her character is sensible and very good.

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  • I always wondered if that was why Mom and Dad split up for a while - because Mom was used to a different lifestyle and social circle.

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  • Loving him was no excuse, because even knowing he didn't love her, she still couldn't find the decency to leave.

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  • Or is it because now I have nothing to lose?

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  • It was a good thing Cade was with her, because she had no idea how to get back to the house.

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  • They were sure he murdered Annie because he lived nearby at the time but they couldn't prove it.

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  • Don't bother to ask questions because you won't get many answers.

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  • He knows the tipster exists because the tipster has information no one could learn through normal means.

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  • I told you because you're here and with Molly knowing, you'd find out anyway.

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  • I'm so fed up with people making fun of me because I'm different, she said, frowning.

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  • The Other didn't notice him, perhaps because of the strange issues affecting magic.

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  • I just signed their death warrants, and you think I'd stoop so low as to point the gun at someone because I'm jealous?

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  • Because if she did, she'd lose what little she had left.

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  • He was often called the Ettrick Shepherd, because he was the keeper of sheep near the Ettrick Water.

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  • And because human nature changes either not at all or very slowly, people make the same choices over and over again.

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  • And every day, their product gets better because it is being fed more data.

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  • It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and texture of my mind.

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  • It was thought advisable for me to have my examinations in a room by myself, because the noise of the typewriter might disturb the other girls.

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  • I felt vaguely that they could not be good even if they wished to, because no one seemed willing to help them or to give them a fair chance.

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  • I enjoy having a play described to me while it is being acted on the stage far more than reading it, because then it seems as if I were living in the midst of stirring events.

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  • In 1810 he received letters from his parents, in which they told him of Natasha's engagement to Bolkonski, and that the wedding would be in a year's time because the old prince made difficulties.

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  • The tales passing from mouth to mouth at different ends of the army did not even resemble what Kutuzov had said, but the sense of his words spread everywhere because what he said was not the outcome of cunning calculations, but of a feeling that lay in the commander-in-chief's soul as in that of every Russian.

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  • She gave it up just because it was so powerfully seductive.

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  • He died because it was his time.

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  • Quinn swims every morning and takes along a cake of soap because he's lazy.

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  • You can play dumb because it's the truth.

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  • Lives have been lost because we've either not been believed or someone was too late following up.

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  • She once thought the problem was him, because he was of human origin.

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  • Because he killed the bull?

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  • It was possible that Alex was making no progress with her because she actually didn't want what she was asking for.

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  • The man was there because Lori had sent him.

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  • Then again, maybe she only wanted to believe that because to believe otherwise would be insulting.

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  • Because you're single-handedly destroying the universe.

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  • Only because I like you.

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  • That the skin around Wynn's eyes relaxed in genuine warmth made Gabe realize she'd survived partially because she really was different.

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  • We fear it, frankly, because we do not understand it.

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  • People who buy organic food, for instance, are not doing it simply because they have more money.

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  • We will avoid war because it is unprofitable; and while that is not a moral reason, any reason that brings peace is fine by me.

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  • They wage war because it is the only language they speak.

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  • Think of it now, and let it make every blessing brighter because your dear Father sends it to you.

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  • The books are not heavy, because the leaves with the raised type do not lie close.

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  • I love the beautiful spring, because the budding trees and the blossoming flowers and the tender green leaves fill my heart with joy.

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  • She excels other deaf people because she was taught as if she were normal.

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  • Helen told me that for a long time she had thought of Jack Frost as a king, because of the many treasures which he possessed.

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  • A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should do something wrong.

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  • If they pay the tax from a mistaken interest in the individual taxed, to save his property, or prevent his going to jail, it is because they have not considered wisely how far they let their private feelings interfere with the public good.

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  • The people only gave him power that he might rid them of the Bourbons and because they saw that he was a great man.

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  • You are the first and only one to whom I mention this, because I like you.

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  • And she added, turning to Vera, You'll never understand it, because you've never loved anyone.

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  • He may keep me on duty every day, or may place me under arrest, but no one can make me apologize, because if he, as commander of this regiment, thinks it beneath his dignity to give me satisfaction, then...

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  • He was not one of those many diplomats who are esteemed because they have certain negative qualities, avoid doing certain things, and speak French.

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  • Of course you artillery men are very wise, because you can take everything along with you--vodka and snacks.

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  • Natasha, that winter, had for the first time begun to sing seriously, mainly because Denisov so delighted in her singing.

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  • But, just because the assistant evidently did not want him to go in, Rostov entered the soldiers' ward.

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  • The Russians did not make that effort because they were not attacking the French.

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  • He told Kutuzov that he had come because Moscow, the capital, was no more and only the army remained.

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  • He was dissatisfied because he knew by experience that if his patient did not die now, he would do so a little later with greater suffering.

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  • The French followed him with astonishment in their eyes chiefly because Pierre, unlike all the other Russians who gazed at the French with fear and curiosity, paid no attention to them.

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  • The old count cried because he felt that before long, he, too, must take the same terrible step.

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  • As I understand your present life, I think you will always recall it with satisfaction, because the self-sacrifice that fills it now...

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  • I think she was merely directing the comment at you because she thought you might want to know.

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  • Apparently he found what he was looking for, because a smile touched the corners of his mouth and his eyes warmed.

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  • He's at home with Jonathan and he can't come in because Destiny might catch what he has.

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  • Just because it upsets me doesn't mean I don't want to know - or that you shouldn't tell me.

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  • Probably because he didn't know how to handle the situation - and Alex always wanted to be in control.

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  • Because she hadn't known him long?

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  • Those eyes were dark now, mostly because the pupils were large.

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  • He hadn't been accepted as their roommate because he was pretty.

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  • No, because men have needs and desires women couldn't understand.

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  • Was he angry because he had come so far for nothing?

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  • But if this is because you're lonely . . .

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  • Because he doesn't want to get married and I'm not going to force him into it by making him feel guilty.

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  • His mother pushed him off on us because he stayed up here in New Hampshire because he stayed here a couple of summers growing and she thought visiting might jar something loose.

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  • I had trouble sleeping on the sofa because I kept thinking about my vision from earlier.

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  • To tell the truth, I did it because I was pissed off at him over my losing Annie.

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  • Don't forget the Burton boy is alive because of us.

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  • Here in the spring time south, I have no such fear because I'm not stupid as he apparently was.

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  • Other members of the defense bar would surely look closely if their clients were apprehended because of unverifiable tips and assail the source, if they could locate it.

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  • No on both counts but he's been a person of interest in the past, because of his associates.

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  • Let's hope not because he'll try to take advantage of that and do his deeds where you can't pin-point the abduction exactly.

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  • I remember because the tip was different from most; so detailed.

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  • She didn't know the call had gone through because I was waiting for her to stop talking.

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  • I volunteered no more information, nor did he want it, doubly so now that he might be suspected of having ties to us because of the frequent inquiries he made.

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  • I can't say for sure because I'm on the outside, trying to look in and trying not to get caught, but they've pulled the curtain closed on me.

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  • He also murdered a deputy sheriff who stopped him because the law knew his license plate from a tip.

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  • This ought to help the credibility issue; there's more to some tips than the police know, but haven't made public because it would enforce credence in a psychic connection for the tip.

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  • She can't because Molly would miss school.

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  • I'm doing it because of what you said; think of all the children he could be saving.

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  • She had not been reported missing because her mother lay dead in their small rural farm house over a hundred miles away.

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  • Was it because all the stupid clones out there who read this trash lack the brains to come close to finding her?

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  • I don't know what I mean except I can't stop dreaming of little children, all hurt and bleeding and I don't want to see them because it hurts too much, but I can't block them out!

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  • She drank herself blotto because her husband is a shithead.

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  • He gets stymied at times because of lack of access to certain information sources.

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  • He didn't spend much time at the hospital because the step father is a prune and he snubbed Julie.

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  • You have to spend the night, because of the head injury.

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  • I went around back because Howie said the key he left with us fit the back door.

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  • I started to open the window to get out of there but I guess he heard me because he kicked down the door and grabbed me and cut me.

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  • There isn't a doubt in my mind I'm breathing now because of him.

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  • She wasn't on my list, probably because the police considered the case closed.

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  • I gave a lot of thought to that question because of all the fingers pointing at me.

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  • Just because I dropped at your feet whenever you called for five years doesn't mean I'll do it now.

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  • I think he blames me because he ruined a sweater when he got shot today.

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  • Maybe it's just because Dusty and Sofi can't cook.

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  • It's just physical, because they don't have time to have real relationships.

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  • Specifically, a virus or bug passed to a pig is considered a huge threat in the medical community, because pigs can pass their diseases onto humans.

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  • I thought it was strange, since Jimmy's the last person who would veer off course from your orders because you let him blow up whatever he wants and he doesn't wanna lose that.

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  • He hadn't visited the Guardians' Irish station in years, mainly because Ireland had no regular vamp population.

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  • She'd stayed after she turned eighteen, because he was the only one who understood her strange gift.

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  • It was better than any jewels he could buy her, because it meant something to him!

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  • She'd accepted her father, because there was no one else who understood her.

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  • Know that I do it because I care about you, Yully, and want to keep you safe.

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  • Because he would agree.

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  • You think I'd sell my soul because of something so stupid?

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  • You're just as mad at him because you think he hung you out to dry when he didn't answer your call the night Billy was killed.

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  • It wasn't coming out the way she practiced it, maybe because Gabriel was sitting close enough that she wanted to lean against him instead of the bed and place his large hands on the parts of her body hidden by clothes.

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  • Maybe because everything was um, mashed together.

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  • The whole reason he'd avoided her was because of Wynn's warning – pleasure kills – a reminder that Deidre's tumor was connected to her emotions.

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  • They never once suffered because of what choices she made.

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  • Because she bears you less ill will than I do?

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  • He didn't have that position because he was a male, as her friends often thought.

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  • He had it because he was incredibly good at it.

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  • Because he's too bold – and we're not that far from the house.

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  • That's because you and I...

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  • And who was she to deprive him because of her beliefs?

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  • Maybe because that was the way she had been raised.

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  • At Carmen's startled gasp, he said he didn't think that was an issue because they brought him back quickly.

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  • Someone must have already been on the way because she passed two more patrol cars and found a third waiting for her at the store.

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  • The doctor said it was unlikely because of the tests, but doctors had been wrong about tests on him before.

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  • Later, as she looked down at his sleeping form, she was silently cursing the doctor because his diagnosis was correct, but for the wrong partner.

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  • Mums was her first choice because of confidentiality issues, but there probably wasn't much romance at her age and after so many years of marriage.

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  • Maybe he seems like another person because he doesn't feel like himself.

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  • Because it's more intriguing for men if something is covered.

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  • Because I was short with you?

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  • Maybe because I was trying so hard and consciously trying to make it happen.

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  • Because she was your mother?

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  • She had no right to push him into a relationship simply because she wanted a father-in-law.

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  • Carmen felt sorry for Lori because of the way Josh had treated her.

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  • It teaches compassion, because sitting on the bus, I know the person beside me is someday going to have to search his soul the same way I did, so I don't mind that he's spilling his coffee on my shoes.

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  • She was scared, probably because he was a second away from killing her.

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  • A status check on their relationship, the one he hadn't told her he couldn't have, because he was trapped into mating with a formerly sadistic psychopath-turned-human he was trying hard not to kill.

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  • I said it's because you slept with her.

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  • All these issues because I didn't open one door?

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  • He wants to kill me, because he's Death and that's what Death does.

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  • Because somehow, this was normal wherever they were from.

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  • He was always able to read her, probably because he was the first to tell her she was dying.

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  • Just because she knew there was a shadow society didn't mean everyone she ran into was part of it!

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  • You didn't drink it, because you have an emotional connection to the person who asked you not to.

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  • He wasn't surprised, because he already knew.

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  • She couldn't … couldn't bear the thought of another friend dying because of her!

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  • Logan didn't deserve to be killed by a demon; Wynn didn't deserve to die because Gabriel didn't want anyone else around her.

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  • Because he wanted her to live.

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  • Now you.ll tell me you know how I feel because you read my mind.

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  • Everything that.s gone wrong has been because of you! he returned.

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  • It'd be kinda nice to just think about fishing and TV and not having to wonder what suit is all over my ass because of some dumb new rule.

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  • Because she wants to give you some time to figure out that you two can make this work.

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  • It is because there is no warm blood in them, remarked the Wizard.

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  • The Mangaboos were much impressed because they had never before seen any light that did not come directly from their suns.

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  • It repeats itself because it is the record of the choices of people.

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  • But because it can be misused doesn't mean it cannot be used well.

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  • I buy something because I have certain assumptions about how much happiness it will bring me.

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  • The robots I watched making Legos had no human operators because no human can keep up with them.

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  • I think no matter what, energy costs will fall dramatically in the future, probably to near zero, because the economic incentives to unlock that technical puzzle are so overwhelming.

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  • Everything would be better made because the best way to make a thing could be multiplied across all occurrences of the thing.

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  • Simply because only so many jobs can, in theory, be replaced by machines does not imply anything about the ability of the people now doing them.

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  • In fact, let's say his own mother considered donating the portrait he painted of her to Goodwill but decided not to because "the poor have enough problems already."

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  • They don't really worry about whether playing polo or building orphanages or any other chosen pursuit can pay the bills, because they don't need it to pay the bills.

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  • Because of its reliability, agriculture will become more like an exact science.

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  • They should be advocating that genetically modified crops be created not because it would result in better looking strawberries, but because GM crops don't require fertilizer or pesticides.

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  • Public opinion is ever more in the peace camp because the vast majority of the economy doesn't benefit financially in times of war.

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  • Augustine said this could not be the case because he could neither hear Ambrose nor see his lips moving.

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  • Moore's Law works because many thousands of people compete with each other to drive technology forward.

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  • And because it changed for the better, wondrously better, we can proudly claim our part in its forming.

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  • The geometrical diagrams were particularly vexing because I could not see the relation of the different parts to one another, even on the cushion.

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  • I cannot make notes during the lectures, because my hands are busy listening.

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  • When I visit many strange countries my brother and Mildred will stay with grandmother because they will be too small to see a great many people and I think they would cry loud on the great rough ocean.

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  • Are you very, very happy because you can make so many people happy?

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  • Helen's instincts are decidedly social; she likes to have people about her and to visit her friends, partly, I think, because they always have things she likes to eat.

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    1
  • Helen shook her head and spelled "Baby teeth--no, baby eat--no," meaning of course, "Baby cannot eat because she has no teeth."

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  • Near the landing there is a beautiful little spring, which Helen calls "squirrel-cup," because I told her the squirrels came there to drink.

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  • She enjoys punching holes in paper with the stiletto, and I supposed it was because she could examine the result of her work; but we watched her one day, and I was much surprised to find that she imagined she was writing a letter.

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    1
  • At the dinner-table she was greatly disturbed because I didn't eat, and suggested that "Cook make tea for teacher."

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    1
  • It was no doubt because of this ignorance that I rushed in where more experienced angels fear to tread.

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  • It's easy enough, however, to say Helen is wonderful, because she really is.

    3
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  • Indeed, she was much displeased because I could not find her name in the book.

    3
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  • I think, too, that they quicken all the child's faculties, because they stimulate the imagination.

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  • When I see that she is eager to tell me something, but is hampered because she does not know the words, I supply them and the necessary idioms, and we get along finely.

    3
    1
  • It is irksome because the process is so slow, and they cannot read what they have written or correct their mistakes.

    3
    1
  • This extract from one of Miss Sullivan's letters is added because it contains interesting casual opinions stimulated by observing the methods of others.

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  • She is never fretful or irritable, and I have never seen her impatient with her playmates because they failed to understand her.

    3
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  • When she is riding in the carriage she will not allow the driver to use the whip, because, she says, "poor horses will cry."

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  • They are not very wrong to eat too many grapes because they do not know much.

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  • I do not know where he was going because he was a little strange boy.

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  • I have found it best not to tell her that she cannot understand, because she is almost certain to become excited.

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  • Here goes lumber from the Maine woods, which did not go out to sea in the last freshet, risen four dollars on the thousand because of what did go out or was split up; pine, spruce, cedar--first, second, third, and fourth qualities, so lately all of one quality, to wave over the bear, and moose, and caribou.

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  • I hesitate to say these things, but it is not because of the subject--I care not how obscene my words are--but because I cannot speak of them without betraying my impurity.

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  • At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.

    3
    1
  • Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half-witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

    3
    1
  • Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

    3
    1
  • If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

    3
    1
  • After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule, is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest.

    3
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  • We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

    3
    1
  • When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote.

    3
    1
  • Because when once a man starts on military service, he should try to make as successful a career of it as possible.

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  • Thou dreamest that thou art wise because thou couldst utter those blasphemous words, he went on, with a somber and scornful smile.

    3
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  • Shinshin, lowering his voice, began to tell the count of some intrigue of Kuragin's in Moscow, and Natasha tried to overhear it just because he had said she was "charmante."

    3
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  • A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally, both in mind and body, as irresistibly attractive to men and women.

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  • A Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known.

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  • But all these hints at what happened, both from the French side and the Russian, are advanced only because they fit in with the event.

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  • Napoleon, riding to Valuevo on the twenty-fourth, did not see (as the history books say he did) the position of the Russians from Utitsa to Borodino (he could not have seen that position because it did not exist), nor did he see an advanced post of the Russian army, but while pursuing the Russian rearguard he came upon the left flank of the Russian position--at the Shevardino Redoubt--and unexpectedly for the Russians moved his army across the Kolocha.

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  • These dispositions and orders only seem worse than previous ones because the battle of Borodino was the first Napoleon did not win.

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  • But the mind of man not only refuses to believe this explanation, but plainly says that this method of explanation is fallacious, because in it a weaker phenomenon is taken as the cause of a stronger.

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  • Above all, they were gay because there was a war near Moscow, there would be fighting at the town gates, arms were being given out, everybody was escaping--going away somewhere, and in general something extraordinary was happening, and that is always exciting, especially to the young.

    3
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  • I said it then only because it would have been dreadful for him, but he understood it differently.

    3
    1
  • He had equipped himself with a mental telescope and looked into remote space, where petty worldliness hiding itself in misty distance had seemed to him great and infinite merely because it was not clearly seen.

    3
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  • Having taken precautions against the general drunkenness to be expected on the morrow because it was a great saint's day, he returned to dinner, and without having time for a private talk with his wife sat down at the long table laid for twenty persons, at which the whole household had assembled.

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  • The children and their governesses were glad of Pierre's return because no one else drew them into the social life of the household as he did.

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  • This is a good place for wine-lovers to dine, because every dish is paired with an appropriate wine.

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  • Because he doesn't want to inherit?

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  • It was hard to say whether Alex was withholding facts so she couldn't contest his decisions or simply because he thought she did not need to know.

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  • Maybe because he went into hiding from his family.

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  • Maybe because she didn't want to think about it then.

    2
    1
  • I guess because the way she acted while we were there.

    2
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  • Then when she learned about Tessa's son, she was furious because he might inherit - even though I hadn't said anything to father.

    2
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  • He wants you because you would do a good job, and because you are his son.

    2
    1
  • Maybe it was the emotional high they were feeling because of the babies, but something seemed to have shifted their foundation.

    2
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  • It must have worked, because his trainees were some of the best officers.

    2
    1
  • Why, because he is the son of a prominent family doctor?

    2
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  • It would have been humiliating if anyone had noticed, but no one seemed to pay much attention – probably because so many others were also drinking.

    2
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  • Only one reason came to mind - because it wasn't dangerous.

    2
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  • Maybe it angered him because she hadn't found him irresistible.

    2
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  • I sure hate to think of something awful happening to you because of your curiosity.

    2
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  • He had only said that because he was trying to discourage her from prying into his business.

    2
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  • Sarah would do whatever Giddon said, because he was her son... and Tammy had no choice.

    2
    1
  • If Howard had not been able to find anything on Yancey, it was probably because there was nothing to tell.

    2
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  • Because it was unprofessional.

    3
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  • Was it because of an ongoing investigation?

    3
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  • Because you told me to, remember?

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  • All her plans were about to blow up – all this because she had allowed herself to be drawn into a relationship.

    3
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  • Are you angry with me because I didn't want to go up to see your parents?

    2
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  • I feel awful that Dad had to die because I put my education before his health.

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  • If they left the reservation because they were hungry, why would they be out here?

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  • Probably because I know how they think.

    3
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  • She sat down because the code of conduct about standing while guarding took second place to comfort.

    3
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  • Did Darcie think that she had gone because of Bordeaux?

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  • I'm still not sure why they did - maybe because they had recently lost a lot of their own people.

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  • I know, and I guess I was deliberately a little evasive because I wanted you to learn to trust me.

    3
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  • Because I think you just did.

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  • I figured his sister started it because she was jealous of him.

    3
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  • But then, they seemed to remember everything - probably because they kept it revived for entertainment.

    3
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  • If he hasn't been with a woman, it's probably because he's had other ways of...

    3
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  • Because Cade was so reclusive and entertained controversial ideas, he was a target for that kind of gossip.

    3
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  • But it didn't fit the man she had come to know, and she wasn't about to believe it simply because he hadn't made a pass at her yet.

    3
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  • Wild imagination, listening to too many stories, or maybe because I have the ranch.

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  • He was wasting a day because of her.

    4
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  • No, he said he did it because he was angry.

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  • I thought you were upset because Mary caught us together.

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  • I never told anyone, but I avoided getting involved with any woman because of what happened to Mom.

    3
    2
  • We knew some of our tips never came to fruition simply because authorities lacked the probable cause to arrest the perpetrator.

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  • We couldn't do anything because abduction wasn't made public for three days and the child went missing sometime during a twelve hour overnight period.

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  • We would if he'd let me bracket enough times instead of quitting just because he gets tired.

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  • I immediately knew where I was; on the carousel because I was spinning slowly around while blue and red lights revolved around the room.

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  • Jackson must have seen me drive up because he was waiting by the door.

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  • It's not because of your cookies.

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  • Maybe because you dumped her and Darian off on me and disappeared?

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  • Probably because you never thought you'd have to cross Ireland on foot.

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  • She felt the truth in his words, perhaps because their souls had touched when they first met the day before.

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  • I thought it was weird, because we haven't seen a vamp in over a year anywhere in Ireland.

    1
    0
  • Just because we can't fight each other doesn't mean I must help you.

    1
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  • Just said he wanted it done soon because he wasn't taking any risks, even if she hadn't started transforming yet.

    1
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  • Claire was the closest thing, but she never received the training because her power was too weak.

    1
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  • What if he was the only person on the planet that could ever touch her again because of her wacky visions?

    1
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  • It's also a bond that folks in my position have to be careful about taking on, because it leaves me vulnerable.

    1
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  • She shoved against him as hard as she could, knowing when he released her it was because he wanted to.

    1
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  • If he doesn't refuse me because he's tired.

    1
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  • How many humans were dead because he lacked the strength to face his instincts?

    1
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  • No one else will die because of me.

    1
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  • You let me go the first time because you knew I was your mate.

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  • She couldn't stand the thought of seeing Selyn hurt, as much because of everything the girl had been through as the thought of hurting Darkyn.

    1
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  • I knew he had a spotted life before meeting my mother, but I figured he was secretive about his past simply because it gave him a sort of mystique.

    1
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  • I guess that shows they at least believed what they were doing was right—not just whacking you on the spur of the moment because they were mad as hell, taking their anger out on your backside.

    1
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  • When Dean didn't respond—principally because he had no idea what this woman was talking about—she continued.

    1
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  • And because some little snot-nose has a vivid imagination, or thinks it's fun to tell whoppers, I'm supposed to go traipsing off in some god-forsaken mine on the taxpayer's expense on a treasure hunt?

    1
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  • I didn't leave SB the Owl behind because I didn't love him.

    1
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  • I want you to run only if you want to—not because we're nearly broke.

    1
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  • Don't feel just because Jake Weller thinks you'd make a good sheriff you have to run.

    1
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  • The woman remembered the call because it took some work for her to dig up the old information.

    1
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  • You're just grumpy because you have to go to court instead of playing in the woods with us.

    1
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  • The Dawkinses aren't fighting over this place because of its accessibility.

    1
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  • Just because Jake Weller has a pot belly doesn't mean all sheriffs are supposed to be fat.

    1
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  • Remember, Caleb knew where to find the bones because someone told him.

    1
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  • Probably because I never tried very hard to be otherwise.

    1
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  • The night he died, I called because I thought my mother might have stopped by the house.

    1
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  • Or maybe it's just because daddy didn't ask their permission first.

    1
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  • Because it wouldn't be right.

    1
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  • Yes. I kept my maiden name because of my business—it's less confusing.

    1
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  • You sound like my wife, but 'Any man's death diminishes me because I'm involved in mankind.'

    1
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  • Ginger had—maybe is still having—an affair with her husband's brother, and if she isn't sleeping with their attorney it isn't because neither isn't trying.

    1
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  • Maybe she called the cigarettes 'old' because the packaging looked unfamiliar.

    1
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  • Because when I got the call that said a car had gone over, I couldn't raise him.

    1
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  • Vote for me because I love this town and think I can do a good job as sheriff.

    1
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  • I don't even like to say it because I don't have an ounce of evidence, but at the debate Fitzgerald said liquor had been found in Billy's vehicle.

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  • I know this is far-fetched and I'm probably only fantasizing because I'm so pissed off at that son of a bitch Fitzgerald in general.

    1
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  • I think Billy Langstrom was killed because someone chased him down the mountain.

    1
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  • Because that's what you're paid to do.

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  • But neither seriously considered contacting the law, especially because the law was Acting Sheriff Fitzgerald.

    1
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  • The WWW news was either negative or tardy because each took turns bickering at the other until Dean was ready to toss the entire family.

    1
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  • Because I busted you felonious stepfather?

    1
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  • Because I don't want to live in a county where you're the law enforcement.

    1
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  • She took Joseph's gun along because she was afraid of bumping into a bear when she agreed to go up the mountain with Faust.

    1
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  • He ran when Patsy ditched the Buick because she ran and he had no idea what was going on.

    1
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  • Not much beyond that, because, as she put it, she and Caleb didn't stick around 'cause the light went out almost at once.

    1
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  • But they couldn't sell because of Mrs. Dawkins's suit.

    1
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  • At first I couldn't locate her because she was going under her maiden name, Radisson.

    1
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  • They all thought it was because we missed Uncle Blackie so much.

    1
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  • I know I only won because you kept your mouth shut.

    2
    1
  • She couldn't lose him now, because of human weakness!

    1
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  • Gabriel doubted Darkyn was after the Immortal because he was fighting demons.

    1
    0
  • Perhaps it was the knowledge they were safe because of her.

    1
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  • Because you love me.

    1
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  • At other times, it didn't, because her own emotions were too hard for her to control.

    1
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  • Until you took my soul a few months ago, I was there because I loved you and for no other reason.

    2
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  • But no longer, because she'd been trying to make sure she never lost him.

    2
    1
  • He didn't know if it was because of Darkyn or because of being attacked by death dealers that defected.

    2
    1
  • She'd told him the truth, because she wanted them to have a relationship built on trust and love.

    2
    1
  • Because not telling him was hurting her.

    2
    1
  • The truth was he never fully stopped, because he couldn't.

    2
    1
  • But then, maybe she felt that way because she knew he was financially responsible.

    2
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  • Josh's sister had made a few comments to indicate that she thought Josh might have ended his life purposely because he still loved Carmen.

    2
    1
  • I know she was because I told her so.

    2
    1
  • She agreed because she didn't want Destiny then.

    2
    1
  • Surely Katie realized Alex remained head of the household because he liked the position – and because he was married to a person who liked him in that position.

    2
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  • No doubt because she didn't have to do it on a regular basis as Alex did.

    2
    1
  • She had chosen him partly for his ability to assume control while keeping everyone's best interest in mind... and partly because he aroused a passion she never knew existed.

    2
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  • He was human, and there had been times that he had slipped, but it wasn't because he was thinking only of himself.

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  • I moved up here from Houston because what I wanted was here.

    2
    1
  • He walked away, because it was the right thing to do.

    2
    1
  • If they backed down, it was because Rhyn did much more than talk.

    2
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  • So then, one day you told him to kill Katie and her baby, because you were mad at Rhyn and the demons were coming.

    1
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  • Only because of what I am.

    1
    0
  • Because that's what he is, silly!

    1
    0
  • They had to be, because mankind had been trying to outsmart Death since the beginning of time.

    1
    0
  • Then they said I was your mate, because I bear your mark.

    1
    0
  • At least before, Kris had a reason to keep her around, because he wanted something from her.

    1
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  • Here, take these, just because I'm generous.

    1
    0
  • Sometimes you just do things, because you feel they have to be done.

    1
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  • Just because you sacrificed your virtue for a few moments of pleasure doesn't mean I have tossed aside my innocence.

    1
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  • And just because Alex went out with Lori a few times a while back doesn't mean he's unfaithful to me.

    1
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  • Carmen. Don't let Alex move in with you just because you're lonely.

    1
    0
  • Was it because he didn't want children?

    1
    0
  • Because I'm going to show you how to do this.

    1
    0
  • This year she had been afraid to harvest them because of the dogs.

    1
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  • Don't ask for my blessing, though, because you're not going to get it.

    1
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  • She could go on feeling sorry for herself because she couldn't have children, or she could accept the cards that had been dealt her and settle for less than perfection.

    1
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  • Kris said the normal Immortals aren't allowed around you, because they tend to attack you.

    0
    0
  • I just wanted to eat your blood monkey because she smelled so good, I figured she.d taste even better.

    0
    0
  • I.ve failed miserably in my role as a foster mom, and he nearly died because of it.

    0
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  • You have never once invited us here, maybe because we never agree on anything?

    0
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  • For once, Rhyn knew some sort of stability within himself, no doubt because of his bond to Katie.

    0
    0
  • The Ancient Kris probably contacted the other three, because we only have about forty Immortal refugees here now.

    0
    0
  • He hated those words, because he was the biggest and strongest of all Death.s assassins.

    0
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  • I didn.t want to leave you because of the Immortals or any of that.

    0
    0
  • His whole life was in shambles because of her.

    0
    0
  • Because you, my dear, are a masochist.

    0
    0
  • That's because some of them are prototypes.

    0
    0
  • That's because you are not a vampire.

    0
    0
  • She sobbed, "Because it's true."

    0
    0
  • Because I knew what your answer would be.

    0
    0
  • To throw that away because of an accident of circumstance would be a tragedy.

    0
    0
  • Because she is a witch.

    0
    0
  • He must have nodded off again, because when he opened his eyes, Elisabeth's human form lay sleeping with her head in his lap.

    0
    0
  • That's because your usual costume isn't a costume at all.

    0
    0
  • Because they usually tire of living long before they show age and find someone to stake them.

    0
    0
  • Because your happiness is more important to us than our own.

    0
    0
  • She was talking with her mother and Sarah, but must have felt his gaze because she peered at him quizzically.

    0
    0
  • Even if she does, she is not going to think it's because you're a vampire.

    0
    0
  • Because if you don't, you will ruin your wedding present.

    0
    0
  • What isn't fair, is you expecting me to risk your life because you think it is fun to hang out with a werewolf.

    0
    0
  • Just because things went well last month it doesn't guarantee they will go well this month.

    0
    0
  • Because then it will all be real.

    0
    0
  • You need to respect that, because the next time you throw one of your petulant hissy fits, I swear to God, I will install so much sound proofing in this room, you will never hear another note.

    0
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  • Jackson groaned, "Because she has the attention span of a gnat."

    0
    0
  • In his mind's eye, he had pictured her much older – probably because of the way Katie spoke of her.

    0
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  • Katie said it was because he was so controlling.

    0
    0
  • Oh Carmen, just because he's wealthy doesn't mean he's a preppie.

    0
    0
  • I didn't run off just because he wanted me to go to college, you know.

    0
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  • I left because he's a smothering mother hen.

    0
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  • His folks were there when I was born and they're like second parents to me, but I'm not going to marry Josh because I'm lonely and poor.

    0
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  • He got the car because he wanted to do a little sightseeing while he was here.

    0
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  • I agreed because I figured goats would be easier to handle than cattle.

    0
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  • Just because I'm small doesn't mean I'm inefficient.

    0
    0
  • You're tired because you work too hard.

    0
    0
  • Josh didn't walk away because he was afraid to tackle Alex.

    0
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  • The next three days flew by without incident - probably because they were all too busy to start any mischief.

    0
    0
  • Maybe that was because Josh was only a mile down the road.

    0
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  • Maybe it was because Alex was so attractive.

    0
    0
  • Because he loves a woman who can't return his love?

    0
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  • Not only because it would be a lie, but also because she didn't want him to leave and never come back.

    0
    0
  • Because you can't let him down?

    0
    0
  • Because I care about your happiness.

    0
    0
  • Probably because she wasn't in a financial situation to do anything about it anyway.

    0
    0
  • Another would be Josh, because you are still considering him.

    0
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  • He was the third man - the only man for her, because he could do something that neither her father nor Josh could.

    0
    0
  • Obviously Alex wasn't ready for marriage because he was still involved - with a woman who didn't love him.

    0
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  • And I haven't shown up on your doorstep so often because I want you out of my hair.

    0
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  • Because I love you.

    0
    0
  • At the moment she was glad she hadn't told Katie about their newfound relationship - because now it was lost.

    0
    0
  • Maybe Josh never pushed me about sex because we're too much like sister and brother.

    0
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  • When I get married it will be because I'm ready to put the effort into a permanent relationship.

    0
    0
  • He must have had a premonition, because the truck broke down on her way home the following week.

    0
    0
  • Because he didn't realize what he was doing.

    0
    0
  • I know he mentioned that to you because he told me he did.

    0
    0
  • Because he could give me what I wanted - just like that Nashville agent could give Tessa what she wanted.

    0
    0
  • We're surviving because of our position with the PMF and no other reason.

    0
    0
  • Everything this side of the Mississippi is working on solar energy, but not all the facilities are equipped with energy storage, and because it's fall, our energy collection is limited.

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