Example sentences of "because [pron] [verb] n't [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's safe to say because I have n't any of that kind of art . |
| 2 | We must keep our feelings for each other secret , because I have n't enough money to marry her yet . |
| 3 | You put up with your voice and speak with it because you have n't any choice . |
| 4 | Good planning gives you thinking time , the chance to anticipate problems and find ways of avoiding those stresses and crises that arise because you have n't enough time to deal with the unexpected . |
| 5 | But because you do n't that amount has n't been withdrawn from that two twenty five , so that in the next year you put in your eighteen hundred and at the end of that year you get interest on three thousand eight hundred and of course the two twenty five which happens to be three seventy seven , so at that second year you start getting interest on the fifty six pounds that you have n't been required to pay . |
| 6 | She did n't look much like my idea of a prostitute either , but that was because she had n't any make-up on . |
| 7 | Martha and Tilda were in the position of having no spending money , but this was less important when they were not attending school and were spared the pains of comparison , and they felt no bitterness against their mother , because she had n't any either . |
| 8 | ‘ She 's always talking about going to see her nephew and his children , but she 's never gone and it 's only because she has n't enough money for the ticket . ’ |
| 9 | We started gambling with scraps of papers because we had n't any real money and matchsticks were forbidden . |
| 10 | He asked them why elephants did n't ride bicycles and explained that it was because they had n't any thumbs to ring the bell with . |
| 11 | And so , whenever one of Steven 's movies touched upon an adult theme , he was unable to link it directly to his own experience , because he had n't any . |