Example sentences of "because [pers pn] was [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I would say that erm , in my time , er when they became unemployed , most of them could pick up a job pretty easy because I was speaking about from nineteen forty eight onwards , and of course er it was shortly after a war , there was plenty of work , and therefore most of them could pick up a job in a reasonable space of time and they would n't be idle too long . |
| 2 | If Ministers were tempted to give undertakings to the Committee , on which unfortunately I could not serve because I was dealing with other orders such as the Scottish seed potato order at the time , what has happened is a bit below the belt . |
| 3 | Erm I was n't quite certain of the wife 's P H I there was something about twelve months and she was getting a hundred and thirty pounds er I , I lost it because I was looking at the clock at the same , I must confess but erm |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I felt inadequate because I was living with a man . ’ |
| 6 | But by all means if you 've got something bring it along and that would give us a starter for five I 'm keen to see us also trying to once we 've got this going going down the S P Q road ah had lunch with the other day at I mean it was I mean she was n't meeting him necessarily wearing a B A I E hat of not um and I think she I think she touched on that though while while while they were lunching. erm I put down progress because I was thinking of the Pilgrims Progress at the time |
| 7 | I was silent too , because I was thinking about the old man . |
| 8 | ‘ Because I was intending to — and who knows where it might have led ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I found that within the first two years I more than trebled my external income simply because I was entertaining at a large conference-style table in a nicely furnished area . |
| 10 | It cost me many night-hours the more because I was reading of one thing and thinking of another . ’ |
| 11 | As I was saying to you the other day , laddie , because I was aiming to be a fighting man I would n't get married . |
| 12 | I have to be honest and admit that I accepted the invitation to dinner to try to find out once and for all if you were involved with Martin , but that was because I needed to know , needed to prove your innocence , because I was falling in love with you . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Morton was a great stepping stone for me because I was working under Hal and an experienced board of directors . |
| 15 | Er I I could n't tell you off the top of me head I because I was working on it till half past midnight . |
| 16 | I did n't like the beer factory all that much — it was wet all the time , but in the yeast factory I quite liked that , because I was working with machines … |
| 17 | till we got to near the den and do that and we spent er a year and a half there and all the time we were watching this house being built , because I was working at the Corporation and the number of people of the Corporation from the tea boy cadet down came up to see this , this and that , was nobody 's business , mm , without , we enjoyed it , it was quite funny really it is |
| 18 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 19 | My Lords for reasons that have already been explained to Your Lordships and which I will not pursue yet for , er it seems that everybody 's agreed that it is important that the erm local authority representatives should be in the majority and I have to admit that my amendments do not go that far because I was concentrating on getting the magistrates back where they ought to be , er but er that is one thing , the other is that it er was an interesting point that er the Noble Lord , Lord of Greenwich raised , that my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw er at columns four eighty and four eight one er questioned whether it was indeed appropriate that er the Home Secretary should make these appointments . |
| 20 | And I used this line but it did n't sound so effective because I was sitting on a bicycle . |
| 21 | And we when we came of age puberty I was frightened to death me because I was sitting on the bea we were playing on the beach still a child of twelve cos we still went about with little socks on at twelve in them days . |
| 22 | I said I had to leave because I was going to dinner . |
| 23 | Because I was going to the hospital wing I did n't get taken up until about nine o'clock , so I was the last one . |
| 24 | They said I had to lie down for two hours because I was going to be groggy , but I thought Fred would be worried . |
| 25 | The next day I was told to pack my stuff up because I was going on the other side [ to another wing ] . |
| 26 | Not because I was going with another boy , but because he was a Gnat . |
| 27 | I spent a while some years ago just improving my chordal knowledge ; I just sat down and learned it , because I was playing with players who were a lot more advanced than I was , and because I was doing a lot of sessions and stuff . |
| 28 | And nobody could get out of the cupboard , because I was standing in the doorway . |
| 29 | Well , oh because I was standing in line |
| 30 | ( 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 . |