Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [vb base] [be] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said , ‘ Because I 've been feeding you for all these years and buying your shoes and your clothes ! ’ |
| 2 | Trouble is with this quarter , with this discount I 'm probably not going to get to a hundred pound at the office because I 've been using it at home so much . |
| 3 | but , because I 've been knocking it off that bit earlier |
| 4 | ‘ On this new album there 's one huge track called The Lighthouse , which a lot of people have heard because I 've been playing it on stage — an hour out of two and a half is this album . |
| 5 | Because you 've been badgering me for weeks to go to a car boot sale . |
| 6 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 7 | You already know and experience speech subconsciously because you have been doing it successfully for years and years and years . |
| 8 | Well I better not tell them because it will completely spoil their holiday but erm it 's h it 's interesting because we 've been mentioning it to other people I 'm sure they 've never . |
| 9 | Things like this should n't really surprise people because we have been telling them about what has been going on Down Under for years . ’ |