Example sentences of "because [pers pn] had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was gutted because I had a superb time at Chelsea . |
| 2 | ‘ I was going as carefully as I could because I had a 25-second cushion over Berger so I was able to slow down a bit and the pain eased . |
| 3 | I knew all about it in theory because I had a young Bhabi and she used to tell her friends about her experiences and I used to overhear ( laughs ) . |
| 4 | If a pollster had approached me in the run-up to the election , I would have said I was voting Lib-Dem , because I had a sincere intention of doing so . |
| 5 | It 's a shame he ca n't play against his old county , but I 'm looking forward to it because I had a happy season with them last year . |
| 6 | ‘ I wo n't be fining him because I had a clear view of what happened and understand what he did and why he did it , ’ said manager Kevin Keegan . |
| 7 | you always went to a proper butcher then , you did n't go to the supermarket because you had a good butcher that you used to go |
| 8 | And if you could go back , would you stay in Beirut just because you had a nice home there ? ’ |
| 9 | I said because you had a different coat on today did n't you ? |
| 10 | Chrissie knew who he was because she had a real background in screaming teeny bop stuff . |
| 11 | The doctor had helped assess the problem because she had a good relationship with her patient and had documented all her injuries . |
| 12 | Why she always sounded hoarse was because she had a masculine voice and to cover it up she pretended to have a cold . |
| 13 | Nicknamed Janet Gaynor by the make-up artists because of her resemblance to the star , she was generally liked not simply because of her sunny nature , but because she had a special hobby ; she read the teacups . |
| 14 | Funny how it was ‘ alright ’ to like Alison Moyet because she had a proper soul voice or some such Eric Clapton fan cack but Andy Bell was not a proper singer because he liked to dress funny and was quite clearly in the rugger team drinking club . |
| 15 | ‘ I only took her to the doctor because she had a bad nose bleed at playgroup , and I thought she looked a little pale . |
| 16 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 17 | Because we had a tender board operation which said you take the cheapest tender . |
| 18 | Because we had a long discussion about training needs , audits and all this sort of thing . |
| 19 | We arrived back at about seven pm , had our evening meal and then got an early night because we had a long day ahead of us . |
| 20 | Well as you can see from what Frank said , the six main sectors overall did n't fare too badly , sixteen percent drop in aggregate at the trading level and in fact er , our other interest less expenses were actually ended on eleven percent because we had a million pounds more profit from Lakeside when we sold the Tesco 's site . |
| 21 | I know your ego finds that hard to believe , but just because we had a good time together for a couple of days does not necessarily mean that I 'm yours to play with whenever you feel like it ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He only got his chance because we had a few players out with flu . |
| 23 | I also joined Gaysoc , partly out of respect for a close friend ( and former boyfriend ) who had come out as gay , partly because we had a gay president . |
| 24 | That was because we had a sensible framework of industrial relations laws . |
| 25 | Well because they had a better goal average in all the other games . |
| 26 | And because they had a stupid name and a fat bastard with glasses for a singer . |
| 27 | Researchers concluded that chocolate addiction should be treated seriously but also pointed out that many people who called themselves chocoholics because they had a strong liking for the food were not addicts in the true sense of the word . |
| 28 | I used to be able to go to a park and swim , or check out a ball to play with , because they had a part-time supervisor there , then they take that away and the park becomes a land mass , then it becomes a turf , you see ? |
| 29 | It did seem that the main force squadrons in other Groups had more casualties than we did , partly because they had to cope with fully awakened defences , gun and searchlight crews as well as fighters , after PFF had done their job , and perhaps also because they had a higher proportion of new , inexperienced crews who were usually the first to come to grief . |
| 30 | Family was Jim and the others ; family was her women 's group and squabbling at two-thirty in the morning about whether women could be said to constitute a separate class because they had a separate relation to the mode of production , while still making each other coffee and giving each other hugs . |