Example sentences of "because [pers pn] be at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could just hear because I was at the front of the class . |
| 2 | I 've brought him , I 've brought him at half five , because I was at the bus stop , leaning on the lamp-post and it was about twenty five past , and then he did n't come along to the next stop by and it got to twenty five |
| 3 | Or the need to race to the phone like a lunatic every time it rings ( for someone else ) and to blame your mother because you were at the pub when he did phone . |
| 4 | Gorman , 61 — MP for Billericay in Essex — did not appear because she was at the Tory conference in Brighton . |
| 5 | Either because she was at the bottom end of the family , or because she always had a book to study . |
| 6 | ‘ Um — is that putting patients in order of priority as they come in so that you do n't leave people to bleed to death because they 're at the end of the queue ? ’ |
| 7 | This is because they are at the same stages in their evolution . |
| 8 | Passages on collegiality , religious liberty and the Jews , for instance , matter greatly because they were at the centre of lengthy conciliar debate as many other passages were not . |
| 9 | It was easy to laugh because they were at the top of the path now , coming out of the Grove into sunlight . |
| 10 | She put on her black trousers and her chocolate-brown sweater because they were at the top of the first suitcase she opened and she would have worn them at home on a cool autumn day when there was mist on the hills and woodsmoke in the lanes and … |
| 11 | You can not , for instance , turn someone into a surfing champion just because he 's at the seaside , but if it turns out that he has a genuine interest in fishing and some skills as a fisherman you can centre pictures and film on that . |
| 12 | And because he is at the same time King , he is also responsible for the executive as well as the judicial aspect . |
| 13 | He often put his pupils off from tutorials because he was at the television studios , smilingly outlining rather shocking views about constitutional history , and the role of the trade unions . |
| 14 | Marius Steen was in London certainly on the Saturday night , because he was at the Sex of One … party . |
| 15 | Brinson could cope with the work only because he was at the Foundation , where people could see him , which had concerns close to those of the CNAA , and which allowed him time to take part . |
| 16 | I say this last , only because it is at the bottom of my mind , deep hid and permanent , not because it is least . |
| 17 | This zone of farms is called the marginal fringe because it is at the upper margin for agriculture . |
| 18 | It has been convincingly argued that the image of an advice-giving agency is crucial because it is at the stage of identification of the appropriate agency that most people are obstructed on the way to the solution of their problem . |
| 19 | Some psycholinguistic models ( e.g. Cole & Jakimik 1980 ) assume that the beginning of a word is known , either because it is at the beginning of the utterance or because the previous word has been identified . |
| 20 | When it was over Janet came into the room and said : ‘ We found a small tumour but you are very lucky because it 's at the preliminary stage . |
| 21 | When I knew it , in 1941 , I was a newly commissioned , very nervous officer billeted up the road in a cotton-mill-owner 's abandoned mansion on a hillside in a suburb called Ramsbottom ( locally known as Tupsarse because it was at the ‘ end of everything ’ ) . |
| 22 | One was that all people knew about me was that I was making trouble about the caravan site and a lot of them assumed that because it was at the bottom of my own garden , I must naturally be on ‘ their side ’ , whatever my political colour : that is , I wanted the site disbanded . |
| 23 | So everyone called it Druid 's Bottom because it was at the bottom of the Grove . ’ |
| 24 | actually caught with , I think he was just starting on that when Mike come down , er but , he got it out this magazine rack because it was at the back of there I put it , cos it 's this year 's the others I 've got upstairs in a drawer |