Example sentences of "because [pers pn] be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For example , if the patient says ‘ I can not possibly measure my own blood glucose because I am at work all day ’ , the patient might be lost if the doctor were to insist .
2 It 's because I am in love with you . ’
3 ‘ I 'm lucky , really , because I 'm with Denis and Astrid and they 're real friends — good friends and their comfort is so welcome — but I 'm in a foreign country so I 'm alone , and what I most want to do is talk about Dad to people — which is why I 'm writing this .
4 ‘ That 's because I 'm at work , ’ Loretta said shortly .
5 ‘ If one of the children is ill it does n't matter because I 'm at home , anyway , ’ she says .
6 Because I 'm on T.V. I have to keep it looking the same and so it 's trimmed every five to six weeks .
7 Geraldine , who works for Classic Leisure , owners of The Institute , said : ’ Because I 'm on site all day I thought it would make sense to join the club . ’
8 I 'm a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and er because I 'm by background an electronics engineer and I was at a meeting there where a chap was giving a talk on design express lifts you know at Northampton and the Chairman stood up and introduced doctor whoever he was sat down turned round to me in the second row and said could you give a vote of thanks at the end .
9 Now I 'd not seen his work before , that 's partly because I 'm in Brighton and not in London and do n't get up that often perhaps , but he has hardly shown in England , whereas he 's very well known in Europe , using Europe for the Continent .
10 I met them because I 'm in love with Gillian .
11 But , for me , it 's a twist on that because I 'm in control of the situation .
12 I ai n't see any because I were with Jacqueline were n't I ?
13 Unfortunate , because I was on ramp duty practically every night , finding the work somewhat impersonal too , the selections now being made by loudspeaker ( such was the weight of traffic ) , and having little to do but stand there drinking and shouting with my colleagues — thus denying Herta the kind of undivided attention that every young wife craves …
14 When I came out , one time , they did n't give me any money because I was on remand .
15 So I was actually messing around with the Tax Officer for quite a while because I was on demob leave and I was also working so he was n't gon na let me have two lots of sa wages .
16 ‘ I was n't part of the investigation but because I was on duty I had to go to the scene of the crime .
17 To be near hand because I was on maintenance on call you see as maintenance .
18 A young pilot officer came into the office , white faced , and said to me , because I was on hand , ‘ That 's my friend out there ! ’
19 It was a job that fell mainly to me , because I was at home .
20 Because I was at home , we sat down for two hours and talked it through .
21 I do n't know how it went down because I was at home in bed asleep at night .
22 I 'm not because I was at work last week and they got
23 I did well at school because I was in love with and afraid of my teachers .
24 I was now afraid for Eric and his safety , not just because he was a young man far from home , but also because I was in love with him .
25 ‘ I broke my engagement to David Markham because I was in love with someone else . ’
26 I want to end by saying that we need now to f go over this hurdle of liberation make sure that the vast majority of black South Africans who are deeply angry and I saw this anger because I was in South Africa when Chris was assassinated and this anger was turning into rage and the country was on a knife edge it could have blown up , the country would have burned had it not been for the diplomatic achievement of , of enormous stature by Nelson Mandela when he addressed the whole nation and in a sense seized power informally from white and black and the country managed to survive that but if that anger turns into rage again then the country could burn and I do n't say this to be dramatic but just to warn that in those moments when the media and so on do n't explain the situation well do n't forget our people because they have had to cope with this situation .
27 It 's interesting because I was in Nottingham a few weeks ago and actually on Nottingham market they sell a lot of goat meat
28 I 'd never thought of myself as working at the NME because I was in awe of it ; I used to read it all the time , Tony Tyler , Charles Shaar Murray and people like that .
29 I 'm sorry , I 'm not going to tell you what to do because you are under test , I ca n't sit down and say do this , do that , you 've got to make a decision yourself to go for it .
30 The worst thing is I suppose that you 've got to do the work because you are at home .
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