Example sentences of "because [pron] have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she had taken the trouble to go to school , lessons had often been called off because someone had vandalized some necessary piece of equipment . |
| 2 | I had told myself that heat was cleansing , because I had grown fearful of water . |
| 3 | However , one day I my colleague attacked me for imposing my ‘ middle-class values ’ on the children because I had emphasized polite speech and decent manners in my sessions . |
| 4 | it , it may have been because I had raised some concerns , concerning that particular er statement |
| 5 | The time was right for me to leave , because I had become stale . |
| 6 | My dad says I ca n't have sweets because I had to have some teeth out . |
| 7 | We watched you come home , we saw you go into the house and I was all for going right in after you and confronting Imogen , telling you the truth , because I had learned all about how she had dragged you from place to place , from house to house . |
| 8 | No we did n't because I had bought various things , I like antiques so does my husband , I 'd bought various things while he was away in this erm , the card table and er , I had a new place of stuff , er but since we 've been , but we had odd chairs did n't we ? |
| 9 | ‘ I was definitely not in my best shape because I had had major surgery in May for an ovarian cyst . |
| 10 | Then one day , when searching for a mattress , because I had put one of ours from the melin into one of the cottages , we were confronted with a problem we had n't anticipated . |
| 11 | In that same year I was posted to South Shields on the south bank of the River Tyne and quickly became aware that I had an enormous burden to carry , simply because I had spent all of my previous service on ‘ the other side of the river ’ . |
| 12 | I know how you feel because I 've seen other girls go through it . |
| 13 | There are , and I know because I 've seen both sets of prejudices , prejudices from both sides . |
| 14 | I 've been round there twice because I 've swiped this , one I 've been round there |
| 15 | But do n't 'ang about too long because I 've 'ad that Nottingham Forest on the blower . |
| 16 | Her kindness to me is because I 've expanded those Works . |
| 17 | Because I 've done two two and then knit two and then you |
| 18 | Because I 've done some red I 'll do green . |
| 19 | That because I 've used those before not for golfing or anything like that but just as a general map of reference or |
| 20 | Then on a smile , he added , ‘ Very inadequately , it seems , because I 've scared half of the patients away . ’ |
| 21 | Is it because I 've hurt that insufferable ego of yours ? |
| 22 | because I 've known civil servants who 've been er members of my organization , I belong to the Socialist Party of Great Britain , the only socialist party in this country . |
| 23 | Well I think , I 've got ta say that I think it might be ha it might be working better now with there but when not there and we go to and say can you tell me where X Y Z is , the response you 're gon na get is I 'm sorry I do n't know and the reason she wo n't know is that she 's never bothered to ask because she 's not talking so it 's okay while there but it wo n't be when she 's not because I 've had that , sorry I do n't know . |
| 24 | I shall need a new one by the winter because I 've had that for four |
| 25 | Oh well I 've it because I 've had two pedigree 's |
| 26 | Mind you , I do n't think they 're married either of them because she comes under the name Miss and well her name 's Estelle and he 's Paul , but she 's known as because I 've had two or three people ask me about her because she , she deals in insurance . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd just like to say thank you very much because I 've had such a lovely holiday . |
| 28 | close , I can assure you Chairman recognise the time , I can assure you Chairman that our social workers when doing assessments will not , because I 've had this from them , at grass roots level in a branch local party meeting , that our social workers will not indicate to those people who they 've assessed that there are vacancies in those homes . |
| 29 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 30 | ‘ But it does n't matter because I 've had another idea . |