Example sentences of "because i [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went often , partly because I enjoyed dancing and partly because we were offered the most delicious cakes , of a sort that was almost impossible to obtain except on the black market . |
| 2 | I just do it because I like helping others . ’ |
| 3 | But I did n't get married four times because I like trolling down the aisle , I got married four times because I like the idea of being married and I like sharing my life with a man . |
| 4 | I could show her a bit of Indian , Chinese or Middle Eastern , all heavily adapted , because I like messing around with other people 's culinary canons , but mainly I 'd have to show her my version of Italian , and the liberties I 've taken with that do n't bear repetition . |
| 5 | If that 's being an idiot then I guess I 'm an idiot , and I 'll be a happy idiot because I like travelling light and having fun . |
| 6 | ‘ Because I like going to different countries . |
| 7 | I like the other people fixing them because I like having to come round here . |
| 8 | Now er w w with every respect , to say that he survived it is something of a crass statement , because I remember reading about him thinking is n't this country getting good that we can have a black guardsman , and I remember my own disappointment when I read that he had to leave the regiment . |
| 9 | because I remember reading her book . |
| 10 | This has always been a great mystery to me because I remember seeing photographs of my father in hospital uniform wearing sergeant 's stripes ( which I understand was the practice then ) and later , after the war , he was a corporal . |
| 11 | Well there were the jobs tha that I mentioned really , production manager or assistant director and now he would have been quite happy I know to have done those , because I remember talking about it you know er and he would have been very good at either of them , but erm er he he did n't get well he was a slightly abrasive man , he he he his erm I I think in a way erm he was a director who could who was not really a very good film director , he he could get things done very quickly and that 's why he worked for bash , bash , bash getting through everything quickly . |
| 12 | Well I I went out to them , and because I heard banging , and I looked out the window and they were hacking at my fence , and I went out bu and was playing war with them when Jim crossed the road with one of them following behind and away down the street , and I thought oh ! |
| 13 | Except I wo n't because I hate doing damn dishes in the morning . ’ |
| 14 | I hate talking about it because I hate making it sound as if someone is to blame but I just ca n't stand people who manipulate other people . |
| 15 | I mean , I only really wanted to dry me towels , because I hate having to run out laun launderette while I 'm drying all me other clothes on radiators . |
| 16 | In this instance , I do not particularly welcome this debate , because I regret having to make these points tonight in this way . |
| 17 | It might be because I keep looking at mine and . |
| 18 | Because I keep bumping them it 's got nothing to do with the chiropodist . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's worth spending money on the wear out of , I never throw out jackets or coats , because I keep wearing them over and over — that 's really good value for money . ’ |
| 20 | do anything because I keep moving the chair |
| 21 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |
| 22 | ‘ But I began this without any hope whatsoever of winning the one thing I wanted above all others because I thought it was already given , and what I took in compensation merely made me want it more and resent its absence , because I kept loving you more and more . |
| 23 | Cork , aiming to combine playing with a new career in management when his Bramall Lane contract expires next summer , added : ‘ I should have had more than two goals this season because I kept missing chances . |
| 24 | A seventh final category covered miscellaneous responses which would not fit neatly into either of the six other strategies ; these included ‘ if they sounded incongruous , [ I ] tended to choose an unfavourable response ’ and ‘ it was difficult because I kept forgetting what had gone before so probably ended up guessing ’ . |
| 25 | I had to finish because I started trying to make everybody laugh . |
| 26 | Because I started doing it a long time ago |
| 27 | It 's hard for people like us because I think playing music is a legitimate goal in life and you 're not made to feel legitimate , you 're made to feel opportunist . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I went into teaching at 21 because I liked working with children . |
| 29 | Believe me , I am very , very sorry , because I liked working for you . |
| 30 | By the time I was 22 , I 'd run up nearly £4,000 in debt , and was beginning to fall behind with the payments because I rested sending money off to pay for clothes I 'd fallen out of love with . |