Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I do n't want to go down in history as a great songwriter because I died penniless . |
| 2 | She deserved it , she 'd been tormenting me for weeks , calling me Comic Stripper because I told better jokes than she did . |
| 3 | I then broke away because I saw two fighters above on the port side . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | But Celia , let us look at at tables because I saw some which can take typewriters and computers . |
| 6 | why they must do because I saw some of the groups of them going |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | Because I saw this there that 's harpist is a word . |
| 9 | I set off again , maintaining for some reason — perhaps because I expected further farm creatures to wander across my path — my slow speed of before . |
| 10 | If you 're here because I said certain things about you after the race , you can sod off back south right now . ’ |
| 11 | He promised us photos of the bairn because I said that was the condition for signing , and I got one and that was that . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | Sadly much of the animosity generated about Cochrane and Bennett originated from within No 5 Group and a great deal I was able to counter before it reached tap-room levels , I never felt I was running with the fox because I had great feeling and admiration for both these Olympian " gores , in fact , Cochrane invited me to move to No 5 Group with him when he left No 3 Group , but I declined as I was in mid-tour . |
| 14 | Mum was getting very panicky at 8.30 am because I had one sock on , a jumper round the wrong way and my shirt collar in a mess . |
| 15 | And that 's only because I had good teachers — I do n't think that I have any special superhuman gift for it . ’ |
| 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 | It was a problem to get the camera set up , because I had two classes , one before the other , I had to think about putting it up there and the set up . |
| 18 | It 's not because I had Christian parents , it 's not because I 'd some advantage over you , or you had some advantage over me , it is all of God 's graciousness , it is all of God 's giving ! |
| 19 | I had to save ninepence because I had these free passes . |
| 20 | Because I had some personal problems at the start and the two girls were small when I come working |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She hates me because I am beautiful , and she is not ; because I had three husbands , and she never married . |
| 24 | I remembered the day because I had this huge crush on the boy sitting next to me . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But I chose to do the instrumental album , even though it was a lot smaller scale , because I had more control . |
| 28 | Well I rang them up yesterday because I got two cheques left . |
| 29 | no , no , no no the water was grey because I got all this black stuff |
| 30 | But in the end it was all for nothing , because I got pregnant anyway . |