Example sentences of "because [pron] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll save a lot of wear and tear on your hands if you buy a stainless steel trowel , because nothing causes more blisters than using a rusty trowel . |
| 2 | It 's good for me to come away because I smoke fewer . |
| 3 | Erm now could you help me on some of the the terminology used because I gather that six of the packages have been or about to be erm priced on the basis of a ascertained costs erm I I just wondered if if that was a sort of euphemism for for a cost plus . |
| 4 | However , the tale seems to have followed him , because I gather some of his parishioners certainly thought he had deviant tendencies in spite of his having a wife and son . |
| 5 | ‘ It was n't because I saw some guy and said , ‘ Hey , he gets a lot of girls , ’ or I saw some guy and said , ‘ Man , I want to be that guy , ’ because there 's no-one on earth I want to be . |
| 6 | But Celia , let us look at at tables because I saw some which can take typewriters and computers . |
| 7 | why they must do because I saw some of the groups of them going |
| 8 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 9 | Because I saw this there that 's harpist is a word . |
| 10 | I personally see this is as one of my major objectives over the next year or so , and in a sense it makes me trebly grateful to be here today , because I hope some of the contacts I might make today will enable me to work alongside you in what might be called even local Berkshire band , and to try and get more a multiplicity of views from different organisations channelled through our own value objectives . |
| 11 | When are we gon na have rules revisions , there 's a long way to go and as the , the er General Secretary said , be careful , because I 've been to talks with , on , from the Regional Committee with the T & G yes we got on lovely with them , they 're fine , they , they gave us a nice big er commemorative medal of the dockers ' strike and it 's got my granddad and my great granddad on it cos they was there in the other union mind you while we 've done all the striking and that they stood by , but nevertheless they 're not bad lads anyway and as John said we must be careful that we are not the ones that are gon na be taken over , because I remember that old song of the fifties , never smile at a crocodile |
| 12 | Because I remember this , a cool room flares |
| 13 | ‘ We met on this show , got married , and now we 're getting divorced because I earn more money than him . |
| 14 | He promised us photos of the bairn because I said that was the condition for signing , and I got one and that was that . |
| 15 | er , mm , how we got the days of the week because I said that could name it Monday because that was the day everybody got their money , got paid |
| 16 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |
| 17 | I had to save ninepence because I had these free passes . |
| 18 | Because I had some personal problems at the start and the two girls were small when I come working |
| 19 | But what er , I said , told Pete because I had another call when you were at lunch I think and erm he said he 'd heard rumours that we were looking for somebody . |
| 20 | May I just say I went to erm Johnstown yesterday because I had half promised our friends here that I would go to support them . |
| 21 | I remembered the day because I had this huge crush on the boy sitting next to me . |
| 22 | When I was very young — about 5 years old — I wanted to be a pilot because I had this girlfriend who was going to be a stewardess . |
| 23 | One thing I struck me this week there 's a new regulation as regard punctures on tyres because I had this completely flat tyre and a whole new set of tyres and I said to him well ca n't you mend it , ca n't you put an inner tube in like I I 've done before cos there was a nail in it you see . |
| 24 | But I chose to do the instrumental album , even though it was a lot smaller scale , because I had more control . |
| 25 | no , no , no no the water was grey because I got all this black stuff |
| 26 | Because I got some by mistake cos it , yes I know it in Chinese dishes but I do n't quite know what they do with it . |
| 27 | Oliver said he wanted to go to nursery today because I got some yellow cards you know they 're Daffy Duck |
| 28 | I could n't be an A&R man because I hate that side of the business . |
| 29 | I did n't use the toilets between lessons because I hate all that smoke so , by the time Biffo had finished with us , I dashed straight down to them . |
| 30 | Another reason why I chose London is because I know many of my countrymen have visited and have fond memories of their experience . |