Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | Because I saw this there that 's harpist is a word . |
| 3 | Because I remember this , a cool room flares |
| 4 | I remembered the day because I had this huge crush on the boy sitting next to me . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I need not go on because I know this will be familiar to all of us . |
| 8 | Now , what I do then , is , because I know this is going to happen , when I 'm planning my month , if I 've got some days towards the end of the month where I have no claimants whatsoever , I put the asterisks in there and that 's a catch up day . |
| 9 | Because I mean this is just the start of the trust I mean , nothing 'll change next year . |
| 10 | I felt frightened because I knew this was the Star Room where the Star Council met . |
| 11 | Ali himself has acknowledged this : ‘ I started boxing because I thought this was the fastest way for a black person to make it in this country ’ ( quoted by Torres , 1971 , p.83 ) . |
| 12 | One very quick point , sorry erm I do n't want to sound as if I feel I can but er I welcome your comment at the beginning the condition be be left out on what 's going on because I thought this was actually the key function of this committee and I mean I see these are being decision has been taken . |
| 13 | it 's my go because I took this card . |
| 14 | It was because I felt this that I … interfered . |
| 15 | I was pleased we were talking about girls because I felt this was a subject where Andy 's two extra years did n't really count ; I was effectively the same age as him , and maybe I even knew more than he did because I mixed with girls every day and he only really knew his sister Clare . |
| 16 | ‘ Because I use this boat to travel around on . |
| 17 | Yeah well I was only in Gwindy for three years , then I went to Lewis Girls because I lived this end of I had to go to I loved Gwindy school . |
| 18 | ‘ I watch everything I can because I feel this is a tie that could set us up for a good run in Europe , ’ added Creaney . |
| 19 | Now might it not be also a very good idea then to report back to another public meeting with the results of those suggestions possibly done in a written form which could be freely available before the meeting so that people can discuss these in a structured way because I think this evening one of the problems about this evening is that points are being missed because issues are being jumped from one to another in no structured way and I think that it might be worth while for another meeting where it is structured but certainly to produce the results of your discussions internally to many of the ideas that you 've heard this evening . |
| 20 | Say like erm th stresses we 're all under will cause depression , but after my had my children I suffered from reactive hyperglycaemia , low blood sugar , and we , that was glucose intolerance and I think an awful lot of women erm , suffer th from this and it 's not erm found out and knowing the glucose intolerance I can understand how a lot of children erm , suffer from er problems with eating habits because I think this is being discovered more and more |
| 21 | But that 's not the problem here because I think this one is excellent . |
| 22 | One of the virtues of parental investment er theory I would say is that er it 's particularly sensitive to female interests in , in in sexuality and nobody who knows me or has read er my works would , could possibly suspect me here of fashionable feminist prejudices er so I do n't say this because I think this is what people like to hear , but because I happen to think it 's true , I 'm afraid I 'm one of these old-fashioned and you may think stupid people who believe that you should er say things cos you think they 're true , not because you think er it 's what you think want w want to hear or if you say it , you 'll be accused of sexual harassment by a lecturer as I was last year . |
| 23 | I would just like to emphasise particularly the erm I 'm very pleased consultants working on it , because I think this is the Achilles heel in the in the Gatwick case . |
| 24 | I suppose my first experience is one of immense frustration , because I think this is very important document that you bring to us , but the speed and the sound being , the loud sound of delivery made it very difficult to stay with the , the concept and ideas . |
| 25 | I 'm actually concerned that if we , did anybody know about this issue earlier on because I think this has been going on for quite some time erm probably over the last two years and if anyone did know then why did n't they address it before and if anyone did n't know , why not ? |
| 26 | because I think this little dancing troop we had out , I was about the eldest |
| 27 | Do stay with us , John , because I think this man has a good word to say . |
| 28 | because I have this erm dilemma . |
| 29 | you see I moved a bit more now but and I I 've still got good hearing er apart from this ear here , this ear , I ca n't hear so well , quite so well , this side , you see so I always have to say excuse me while I , hang on while I turn off the television , you see , and then they have to wait a minute till I turn it off and then what I do is because I have this phone extension put in |
| 30 | Because I have this feeling I often have this feeling that these global aspects the person in the street , their first priority is about their damp house and the rest of it , it 's very difficult to erm . |