Example sentences of "[adv] because i [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I set off again , maintaining for some reason — perhaps because I expected further farm creatures to wander across my path — my slow speed of before . |
2 | And that 's only because I had good teachers — I do n't think that I have any special superhuman gift for it . ’ |
3 | I then broke away because I saw two fighters above on the port side . |
4 | Finally , I use dampened white toilet tissue to get rid of any hard lines that may have occurred in my sky , and most importantly I try not to overwork or rework the sky once I am satisfied , just because I see another effect . |
5 | Well I rang them up yesterday because I got two cheques left . |
6 | This , he explains , was ‘ partly because I used four-letter words in front of the Prime Minister . ’ |
7 | I 'm afraid I have n't experimented with these overmuch , mainly because I have some cottons on cone that are not branded , lurking in the cupboard . |
8 | ‘ But mainly because I believe this present Northern Ireland team is capable of hitting the glory trail again . ’ |
9 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |
10 | ‘ Simply because I felt some responsibility for you in Bruges , ’ Luke replied evenly . |
11 | If you 're here because I said certain things about you after the race , you can sod off back south right now . ’ |
12 | ‘ I 'm here because I wanted this job . ’ |
13 | ‘ And you know that I am only here because I have royal authority ? ’ |
14 | Mum was getting very panicky at 8.30 am because I had one sock on , a jumper round the wrong way and my shirt collar in a mess . |
15 | Morris observes : ‘ I want Roseberry to go forward because I want other people in other places to look at what we have done and say , ‘ there 's an ordinary crew of folks who have really achieved something , what 's to stop us having a go ? ’ ‘ |