Example sentences of "because [pers pn] be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very authoritative voice shouted : " Joe , I must come in because I am looking for a wing commander . |
| 2 | The conductor will say , ‘ So that I can communicate my ideas to the orchestra ’ ; and the orchestra will say , ‘ So that he can learn the repertory at our expense ’ ; and the manager will say , ‘ Because I am paying for all this and I insist you rehearse . ’ |
| 3 | " It is different now because I 'm playing for a living , " said Claydon at Walton Heath . |
| 4 | There was a moment of silence , and then the old lady , her tone returning to normal , looked at Grace as she said , ‘ Now , Grace , when the meal is over and there 's all this tosh about the ladies rising so the men can enjoy their port and cigars , here 's one who is staying behind because I 'm dying for a cigarette . |
| 5 | And it was n't a shock when I got my first hit record because I was trying for that all our lives and so she backed me all the way . |
| 6 | I wanted to put a a morning on when I realised there was problems here just a morning an open morning which would of brought probably nine hundred thousand pounds into this building , in July I came in to try to see the Director of the playhouse I could n't go through the written way because I was waiting for exam date to come through . |
| 7 | ( Although I have twice referred to Milton myself , I did so because I was grasping for images to convey something of the reality of the Devil . |
| 8 | Perhaps because I was taken for a Jew . |
| 9 | If you are going for a job that you have never done before , either from necessity or because you are looking for a change of direction , you should take care to prepare for this question by listing all the experience and personal qualities you have which suit you for the job . |
| 10 | Salon perms are expensive because you are paying for the expertise of the technician and their time — an average perm takes approx. two hours for short to mid-length hair , more if hair is longer . |
| 11 | I thought ‘ interesting ’ and kept it for pet for about three weeks ; I called it George , and people would give me extra helpings ‘ because you 're eating for two now . ’ |
| 12 | Just because you 're looking for win win relationships all the time that does n't mean that you 're gon na get walked over all the time because by being assertive and by this is this is really what I want , what is it that you want and looking , listening to the other person 's point of view as well as making sure your point of view goes across as well somewhere , somewhere in all of that through all this down here , there 's a way of finding something for both people . |
| 13 | If she does well , it 'll be because she 's worked for it . |
| 14 | Because she 's heading for trouble . |
| 15 | I can argue that Greenfield does not make this explicit because she is taking for granted conventions that she herself has learnt in the western education system and which she expects her readers to share . |
| 16 | There was no time to get you because she was making for the gate . ’ |
| 17 | We do n't do things out of choice or purpose but because we are rewarded for what we do . |
| 18 | But to get why when er why we want to pay your commission and er it it 's because we are looking for three pieces of paper |
| 19 | The pattern is very much first half er , erm , loss or small profit , second half all the profit and in fact you should watch out for the bigger , the bigger Addison Wesley gets , the more the loss in the second half will be because we 're investing for that sale |
| 20 | " Because we 're going for a trip , " he said . |
| 21 | And the team will cry out for joy as well , because we were created for this community , and in a way we have been looking for it all our lives . |
| 22 | Of course we were very disappointed because we were geared for it , and we were prepared to play even to two or three people in the audience . |
| 23 | Erm , what I 'm , I 've just arranged somebody to redo our speaker syste our original system with tannoys , we blew our tannoys speakers , and I did n't bother getting them replaced because we were going for a rock crowd so we just used Bernie and Nigel |
| 24 | Here we had a man who we knew had serious problems that constituted a danger to himself and others , and we sat back , simply because we were waiting for him to admit he had a problem . ’ |
| 25 | Erm , yeah , I was gon na say , it 's not even just like listening to the radio , is it , because they 're catering for the , for the sighted , they 're not , you know , if it was on radio , they 'd say more , but I mean , it 's television , but |
| 26 | I think these wars are short because they 're fought for limited objectives . |
| 27 | Paul Corrigan suggests that teenagers behave the way they do at the seaside , or at football matches , because they are looking for a memorable experience to balance the boredom of the rest of their lives . |
| 28 | Citation and co-citation approaches often introduce bias into measures , and central influences are often not cited , because they are taken for granted ; they become an assumed part of the research paradigm , just as the all-pervading cosmic background black-body radiation is a palimpsest of the universe 's original Big Bang . |
| 29 | This is not because they are taken for granted — quite the reverse , for each one of them is valued more with each year that passes . |
| 30 | Village fetes , car boot sales and occasional markets are exempt because they are used for less than five days in any five consecutive weeks . |