Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [verb] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My dad says I ca n't have sweets because I had to have some teeth out . |
| 2 | ‘ I was definitely not in my best shape because I had had major surgery in May for an ovarian cyst . |
| 3 | Oh well I 've it because I 've had two pedigree 's |
| 4 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 5 | ‘ But it does n't matter because I 've had another idea . |
| 6 | Mm Oh I 've put in for one to pay the erm interest on the mortgage , which I have to do and that 's all being seen to because I 've had another letter saying can you tell me what this second loan were for and I 've put down yes , it was for windows and sent a bit of paper er , you know , that we 've paid four thousand seven hundred and something , five thousand , nine hundred and something we 've paid for them windows and I 've spent that |
| 7 | I 'm the general manager , your husband employed me , and because I have had enormous experience in running hotels , I would appreciate it if you would leave me to get on with my job . ’ |
| 8 | I only ask because I have had educational advantages , courtesy both of Cambridge and the fresh , clean-limbed members of Her Majesty 's prison service , that may have been denied to readers who , while possessed of many excellent and succulently moist personal characteristics are , perforce , less verbally erudite than moi . |
| 9 | she loved children and I think she would of had more because she 'd had two miscarriages and she 's |
| 10 | She was quite good with delinquent adolescents partly because she seemed to have some insight into the impulse that makes the young and the violent turn on the weak and the defenceless … |
| 11 | Lucy almost quailed beneath the onslaught of his wrath , but she persisted with her argument , mainly because she needed to have this point cleared in her own mind . |
| 12 | When Poirot tells her that Hastings has remarked that the house looked haunted she assures them that if there is a ghost it must be a friendly one , because she has had three escapes from death in as many days so she must bear a charmed life . |
| 13 | Any problems she has encountered have not been because of her gender , but because she has had older people working for her . |
| 14 | I mean it is , it is ridiculous because we 've had that November party down there , and if it does need a bit of planning , you just put the heat on a bit early anyway |
| 15 | How do we know this , however , of human artefacts ? — simply because we have had repeated experience of them and of the people who make them . |
| 16 | Because we have to have another door so they giving me a third off . |
| 17 | If you say that the Nationalists of Ireland have a right to claim to go out of the united Kingdom as a community if you say that five or six per cent of the whole of the United Kingdom have that right because they wish to have separate rule for themselves , how can you say that a body in Ireland , not five or six per cent , but twenty-five per cent of the whole population , has not an equal right to separate treatment ? |
| 18 | It 's going to be all so smooth because they 've had three hour training . |
| 19 | These managers did not come across as having expert power , because they had had minimal training and appeared to be unorganised and therefore unprofessional in their conduct . |
| 20 | Some people are very mistrustful of machines , perhaps because they have had bad experiences with them and are therefore nervous about using them . |
| 21 | Hospital outpatient clinics are better : many people attend regularly , precisely because they do have chronic illness and are therefore likely to be disabled . |
| 22 | Or was it because he had had two daughters before the son he wanted eventually arrived and by then he was too old , with all the eagerness and spontaneity of early fatherhood dried up ? |
| 23 | He 's he 's he 's been reluctant to do anything because he 's had other things to do . |
| 24 | Now with regard to auditors in particular , er he will know because he 's had some correspondence with me er on this particular subject , it is the view of the government that the er recognised professional body , the Institute of Chartered Accounts in England and Wales , is best placed as a professional body , to supervise er this sector er an argument can be mounted and no doubt he may seek to use this debate to do just that , to say that er this should be the subject of some direct er rule from Whitehall . |
| 25 | Directive 72/160 which has been used , particularly by France , to encourage the reallocation and rationalisation of agricultural land ( though less in the LFAs than elsewhere ) is to be abandoned , seemingly because it has had limited impact . |
| 26 | Though some feminists have criticised Gilligan 's work on both theoretical and methodological grounds , and its point should therefore not be taken as unquestionably proven , it is worth discussing because it has had enormous influence . |