Example sentences of "because [pers pn] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd forgone breakfast because I had n't got to bed till four in the morning , lunch because I had a hangover and anyway I was late for the train , and due to the fact that it was — according to British Rail at any rate — still part of the extended Festive Period , there had been no buffet trolley on the train . |
2 | I asked him for something to ease the pain , but he reminded me that he could n't because I had a head wound . |
3 | I was indignant when one of her friends told me my mother had believed my Methodist conviction was because I had a crush on the minister . |
4 | Would I perhaps welcome the security of a helicopter , or welcome the security of waking up in bed to find that it was all a dream and I had n't actually gone hill-walking at all because I had a date with Gerard Depardieu ? |
5 | I stopped going after six months because I felt I 'd resolved my immediate problem , and it had become a drag and an effort , largely because I had a problem with the silences . |
6 | With all the crowding work , and a little pleasure , too , I would have written to you yesterday , only I partly feared to , because I had a proposal to make , which it would have been unseemly to make the apparent cause of my haste . |
7 | Council put the central heating in when we got advanced in years and when it became necessary in the doctor 's opinion for me to have central heating because I had a heart complaint . |
8 | Skipper Kim Barnett tells me : ‘ There was a time when the opposition used to like me out of the way quickly because I had a reputation for getting after the bowling . |
9 | He said : ‘ He had to see me this time because I had a clue for him . ’ |
10 | Went to Rubella 's in the evening but they would n't let me in because I had a bit of instant Whip on my Brummy vest . |
11 | I heard him leaving because I had n't been in bed very long , and I heard him coming back because I had a bit of indigestion and I could n't sleep . ’ |
12 | I was rather irritated yesterday because I had a phone call from |
13 | I stayed in Leeds because I had a circle of friends there . |
14 | Erm , I 'm in favour because I had a walkabout with therefore I would like to say on five point three the and on five point six I would like to say B can we just have some traffic calming on the boundary , such as Lane , Road ? |
15 | ‘ I 'd telephoned you purely because I had a need to hear the sound of your voice and what do I get for giving in to such weakness ? |
16 | He told his mother just before ‘ I 'm Too Sexy ’ was released ‘ partly because I had a premonition my life was going to change . |
17 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
18 | No because I had a meeting yesterday with the kid , with the kids ! |
19 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
20 | Because I had a number of people who 've been on to me talking about the mess on the , on the recreation ground , and asking what it 's for , and as soon as you explain why , you know , it 's been accepted . |
21 | It was n't quite chalk and string on the garage floor because I had a drawing board at Folkingham , but the tin-bashers and fitters would look over my shoulder and make parts as I drew them . |
22 | At first it was very good , I could n't do anything wrong because I had a baby . |
23 | Just because I had a wedding ring on . |
24 | He said : ‘ I considered it my duty to get informed about politics because I had a vote . |
25 | Have to get that documentation out the way because I 've a habit of of giving things back to people that I 'm supposed to keep . |
26 | But I 'd disappeared because I 'd a man shouting ‘ fruit and vegetables ’ ( in those days , you had to have your name and address on your cart ) . |
27 | There are great dangers in the royal family speaking out because I have a memory of the nineteen seventy nine , just prior to the devolution bill in the referendum in Scotland , when the Queen spoke out against devolution , now she in , in effect denied a large number of Scots the opportunity to have some sort of Scottish Parliament based here , and we probably would n't , I think , be debating this subject today , if in fact we 'd got that eleven years ago . |
28 | He considered the opportunity to participate in the project to have tied in well with curriculum trends he had been supporting across the school : This was something I very much wanted to encourage because I have a worry that in spite of everything one does in schools to make children aware of library facilities and how to use them , I think quite a lot of children may still leave school without personally having experienced the whole process of needing to find something out , going to a person who can tell them where to look , going , looking , finding it , and then using it . |
29 | But all is not yet lost , because I have a plan . ’ |
30 | I tell you something , I tell you this as a friend , because I have a sympathy for you … |