Example sentences of "because my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I actually bought the Levin because my first choice was unavailable . |
| 2 | Because my first experience of love was here , I have never wholly transplanted myself from this soil . |
| 3 | Because my good lady 's always said , you married that bloody union the day you started work . |
| 4 | I 've never met you but I 've had to think about you a good deal during the past few weeks , mainly because my young daughter Jean has been unable to think of anything or anyone else ! |
| 5 | When Dad had knocked the bottle out of my hand some of the bleach must have spilled down my face because my right eyebrow was blonde . |
| 6 | My legs went dead and , although I had a walkie-talkie , I could hardly speak because my right arm was wedged into my windpipe . |
| 7 | Well , yes , I did know ; it was because my Russian friends would be there . |
| 8 | They 're certainly not over-fond of me , probably because my central heating is always on full blast in winter . |
| 9 | ‘ I need your help , Nick , because my only son is dying and my only daughter is following his example , and I need a strong man who will save them . ’ |
| 10 | I like to imagine my name is Cordelia , because my real name is Anne Shirley — and that 's not a very interesting name , is it ? ’ |
| 11 | We called him Boy because my elder sister and I were born first and his arrival gave great joy . |
| 12 | Because my one fear is saying , yes we need four per cent thinking that are gon na go for eight , ten or whatever to put us on a par |
| 13 | This is partly because my personal experience of the rest of the world is limited . |
| 14 | He knows I have extra time off owing to me because my last holiday period was cut short when one of the staff became ill . |
| 15 | Perhaps because my own PhD , many years before , had been taken up with working on protein phosphorylation without fully realizing its significance ( Chapter 3 ) the temptation to explore it in the chick proved irresistible . |
| 16 | I knew her as a girl because my own parents being much occupied , my nurse used to take me to the north to her brother 's farm for holidays . |
| 17 | Firstly the process of moving down towards our S S A needs to be facilitated because my own instinct is that the government , faced with all sorts of financial tribulations , is going to take a harder and harder nosed attitude towards local government expenditure , as it will unfortunately with an awful lot of the rest of what we have come to expect over the decades to be the responsibility of central government , clearly the current expenditure review is going to have some nasty shocks in it for consumers of account services , consumers of other assets of the welfare state but particularly I would suspect , the local government . |
| 18 | I am sure you will agree that I must do so , because my front-man activities must cease sometime … |
| 19 | All my subsequent attempts to find a mutually convenient time to meet have failed — mostly , I have to confess , because my term-time commitments in Oxford made it difficult for me get up to London except at hours when you were in Cabinet , or in the House . |
| 20 | I 'VE just been to court for the first time in my life at 74 , because my local council said I owed them £63 for my wife 's poll tax during 1991–92 . |
| 21 | Those people have lived here for about two years and they 'll still say ‘ I 've got to go home because my old man wants his dinner . ’ |
| 22 | Of course , I 'm biased because my American series , Talking With David Frost , is shown on BSkyB . |
| 23 | ‘ I had to adjust my ideas because my previous designs were sharp little miniskirts … rather severe . ’ |
| 24 | McDunn does n't want to charge me with any of the other murders but they 're going to have to make a decision before too long because my initial time under the PTA is nearly up and the Home Secretary is n't going to grant an extension ; I 'll have to appear in court soon . |
| 25 | I had the opportunity to study the document because my hon. Friend drew it to my attention as we came into the Chamber . |
| 26 | Because my hon. Friend looks so disconsolate , I will give way to him after all . |
| 27 | With respect , I shall not give way because my hon. Friend has not been present for much of the debate . |