Example sentences of "because [pron] had [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mess of my life , the selfishnesses and false turnings and the treacheries , all these things could fall into place , they could become a source of construction rather than a source of chaos , and precisely because I had no other choice . |
| 2 | ‘ I was gutted because I had a superb time at Chelsea . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Because I had the definite impression that this was the area he was working in . ’ |
| 9 | Yeah it made me feel better actually because I had the same impression as you . |
| 10 | ‘ I got hassle all the way through school because I had the wrong haircut and would n't wear uniform and I was just annoying and disruptive . |
| 11 | It would n't have mattered if he had turned out to be a Celtic supporter at that decisive moment because I had the Celtic team on my tongue all ready to trot out , starting with Kennaway , Cook , McGonigle . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | And if you could go back , would you stay in Beirut just because you had a nice home there ? ’ |
| 14 | I said because you had a different coat on today did n't you ? |
| 15 | Just because you had the good fortune to pay nothing for your very expensive university education does little to justify a system of higher education which , at the same time , excluded 85 per cent of your age group from the privileged position you evidently enjoyed . |
| 16 | Chrissie knew who he was because she had a real background in screaming teeny bop stuff . |
| 17 | The doctor had helped assess the problem because she had a good relationship with her patient and had documented all her injuries . |
| 18 | Why she always sounded hoarse was because she had a masculine voice and to cover it up she pretended to have a cold . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I only took her to the doctor because she had a bad nose bleed at playgroup , and I thought she looked a little pale . |
| 22 | They would write a note claiming , for example , ‘ Debbie was off because she had an upset stomach ’ when , in fact , the children were perfectly well . |
| 23 | ‘ Because she had the bloody cheek to say no one should fight for England if there 's a war , ’ Maggie said . |
| 24 | Well she copes because she had the same problem as me with her hands if she 's writing for long , her hands ache , so she can write a longer letter if she types , so I said I , I did n't really , I like a hand written letter best it seems more personal somehow , perhaps they do , having a typed letter means you can send a longer one , they all mean |
| 25 | But finally the Social moved us out of there because we had no hot water . |
| 26 | Because we had no direct measures of volatility in output or demand , we were not able to explore whether establishments experiencing important fluctuations in output or demand were also more important users of temporary labour . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | Because we had a tender board operation which said you take the cheapest tender . |
| 29 | Because we had a long discussion about training needs , audits and all this sort of thing . |
| 30 | 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 . |