Example sentences of "[adj] because [pers pn] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first it was very good , I could n't do anything wrong because I had a baby . |
| 2 | I preferred them when they were fresh because they had a bit of a tang later on , but they were so good that the thought of them makes me hungry . |
| 3 | Do the books feel very hard because I have a tendency to pull my head back onto them with excessive and habitual tension in the muscles of the neck ? |
| 4 | We were lucky because we had a ride in the LNWR observation car . |
| 5 | He was exempt because he had a heart , an enlarged heart |
| 6 | We consider database to be online because it has a number of distinct features functionality . |
| 7 | Would I perhaps welcome the security of a helicopter , or welcome the security of waking up in bed to find that it was all a dream and I had n't actually gone hill-walking at all because I had a date with Gerard Depardieu ? |
| 8 | For example , aspects of the time and place of the discourse in ( 5 ) are important because they have a bearing on what the speaker says in the fragment ( forty years after the described event took place , but still in Stornoway ) . |
| 9 | The others said he cried , but Peter said his eyes were red because he had a cold . |
| 10 | Parents whose children were absent for reasons regarded as illegitimate by the school , can seek to avoid confrontation by providing explanations which the school would approve of ( ‘ Amy was absent because she had a stomach upset ’ , for instance ) rather than provide the real reason . |
| 11 | X. Ray stayed quiet because he had a chance , as would Osvaldo in his place . |
| 12 | They are divisive because they have a tendency to divide women into two camps ; those who have and those who have not shaken the dust of patriarchal conditioning from their feet . |