Example sentences of "because i have [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 2 | ‘ Because I had invited him to my house . |
| 3 | Because I had taught him about it you know , from coming from . |
| 4 | The time I went before that , I got erm , like a frostbitten thumb , because I was going up on the chair lift , and er , I dropped one of my gloves , and it was quite a cold day , so by the time I 'd got to the top , and skied all the way back down , and then down the road going back to try and find me gloves , because I had borrowed them from a friend , |
| 5 | With my finances stretched to the limit because I had committed myself to spending all of that May in the Highlands , I drove back to the pub in Glenelg to consider it . |
| 6 | Or perhaps because I 've lulled her with bedtime stories embroidering our favourite theme : once upon a time there was a girl named Gittel , who had a curse called down upon her … |
| 7 | The experience Mr Chairman I have of these situations is that trees happen to fall down , and hedges happen to get pushed by bulldozers , and at the end of the day , because I 've seen it in my own village where I was born , I 'm afraid with all respect to what happens , what is actually passed by the planners does n't actually come to pass because there is always a reason why it ca n't . |
| 8 | See the thing is , what they 've said to me , because I 've been away now for nearly two years erm I 'd have to go back and do all the training again , which is a bit of a pain but its not too bad because I 've done it before sort of thing , she said to me oh yeah when you go I , I might come along and see if I like it , and we can do the training together she said , I manage to put her off that idea , manage to talk her out of that . |
| 9 | Donald and Piers ( because I 've lameducked him in a sense , too ) but they 're both attractive young men . |
| 10 | I would advise such readers not to lose heart : there is nothing in this book which can not be grasped by an 11-year-old who employs a little application : I know , because I 've tested it on an 11-year-old . |
| 11 | The parson rode nearer , and after a moment 's hesitation , explained : ‘ It was because I 've discovered something of historical interest . |
| 12 | ‘ Partly because I 've known him for years . |
| 13 | Here have mine because I 've had plenty of tea . |
| 14 | Because I 've had it for four years now and I 'm you know a woman touched it the other day and she got really paranoid . |
| 15 | Not because I 've tapped it into the word processor so many times — though that would be reason enough — but because once it is uttered even the most sensible , humane people tend to react in a disturbing , almost totalitarian , way . |
| 16 | Not because I 've tapped it into the word processor so many times — though that would be reason enough — but because once it is uttered even the most sensible , humane people tend to react in a disturbing , almost totalitarian , way . |
| 17 | No of course of you ca n't because I 've got nothing in it . |
| 18 | They mainly argue about plants ; one will say it 's called so-and-so and the other lady will say it 's not , it 's a so-and-so because I 've got one in my garden . |
| 19 | ‘ When I told Martin that I was 10 weeks ' pregnant with my second child , he enjoyed telling people how clever I was because I 'd arranged it between the interims and the final results ! ’ |
| 20 | A few months after I left I met someone else and we had a wonderful relationship for a few months , but then guilt reared its ugly head and Marie persuaded me to go back because I 'd left her with two children . |
| 21 | no that 's right , yeah , I mean , I , I 've said it , I do n't care , but er I 've said in the past that er , I think some of the reason me and Ann split up was , I mean she always used to say I never treated her right and all things like that , I did you know , and I do care for her , but a lot of the things was I never showed it because erm if anything bothered me I never know it showed and it did n't bloody bother me because I 'd resolved myself after Julie that I 'd never let anything bother me again |
| 22 | ‘ I was actually satisfied with that , if only because I 'd resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never be thin , ’ she admits . |
| 23 | I know , because I have applied it with complete success to his own speeches and writings . |
| 24 | Erm , tell me if I 'm repeating it , because I have said it to a couple of other groups I know , especially the Wednesday group . |
| 25 | Because I have had it with that kind of treatment of Americans . " |
| 26 | ‘ Because I have to prove it to you , do n't I ? |