Example sentences of "because [pers pn] have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I must have accepted that whatever my parents told me was good and right because I had no reason to think otherwise . |
| 2 | I turned right and walked up to a crossroads where two shops and a bar were open ; I could n't go in because I had no money , so I continued up the road . |
| 3 | ‘ The Cambridge University report I read with great interest because I had no understanding of children , not having any of my own . |
| 4 | I wished I could have screens put round my bed like the really sick people had , so that instead of giving me sidelong glances of pity because I had no visitors , people would drop their voices and whisper sepulchrally to interested outsiders , " Poor little thing — she 's dying , you know . " |
| 5 | I said , ‘ To be quite truthful , nobody ’ — because I had no contact with my family . |
| 6 | But when it got dark , I had to go to bed because I had no light . |
| 7 | The mess of my life , the selfishnesses and false turnings and the treacheries , all these things could fall into place , they could become a source of construction rather than a source of chaos , and precisely because I had no other choice . |
| 8 | Because I had no plans to . |
| 9 | I 've agreed a settlement and I 'm happy enough with it , because I had no contract . |
| 10 | I gave in because I had no cards to play . |
| 11 | she said it 's hard enough for people with jobs to exist today without all this and she 's gone back to college on the flexi idea , erm , brush up her typing because she said , now whether she 's thinking of future years , she said when she left here that time , although she got that job she said it was n't easy , she said because I had no bits of paper as such , although when I did the test I passed it , she said it was n't simple , so she 's doing |
| 12 | ‘ I was going as carefully as I could because I had a 25-second cushion over Berger so I was able to slow down a bit and the pain eased . |
| 13 | Not because I wanted to go back to my childhood but because I had a deep , healthy interest in finding out a bit more about what was happening while I was growing up . |
| 14 | I knew all about it in theory because I had a young Bhabi and she used to tell her friends about her experiences and I used to overhear ( laughs ) . |
| 15 | It was n't quite chalk and string on the garage floor because I had a drawing board at Folkingham , but the tin-bashers and fitters would look over my shoulder and make parts as I drew them . |
| 16 | With all the crowding work , and a little pleasure , too , I would have written to you yesterday , only I partly feared to , because I had a proposal to make , which it would have been unseemly to make the apparent cause of my haste . |
| 17 | If a pollster had approached me in the run-up to the election , I would have said I was voting Lib-Dem , because I had a sincere intention of doing so . |
| 18 | Would I perhaps welcome the security of a helicopter , or welcome the security of waking up in bed to find that it was all a dream and I had n't actually gone hill-walking at all because I had a date with Gerard Depardieu ? |
| 19 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
| 20 | I stayed in Leeds because I had a circle of friends there . |
| 21 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 22 | This was partly due to the fact that I did n't really understand what I was supposed to be doing and partly because I had a very intricate felt-pen and biro decoration to complete on my pencil case ( which obviously took priority over maths work ) . |
| 23 | ‘ I wo n't be fining him because I had a clear view of what happened and understand what he did and why he did it , ’ said manager Kevin Keegan . |
| 24 | ‘ I was really lucky because I had a really great mother who would expose me to a lot of really great things . |
| 25 | He told his mother just before ‘ I 'm Too Sexy ’ was released ‘ partly because I had a premonition my life was going to change . |
| 26 | ‘ I was gutted because I had a superb time at Chelsea . |
| 27 | Went to Rubella 's in the evening but they would n't let me in because I had a bit of instant Whip on my Brummy vest . |
| 28 | I asked him for something to ease the pain , but he reminded me that he could n't because I had a head wound . |
| 29 | Skipper Kim Barnett tells me : ‘ There was a time when the opposition used to like me out of the way quickly because I had a reputation for getting after the bowling . |
| 30 | Council put the central heating in when we got advanced in years and when it became necessary in the doctor 's opinion for me to have central heating because I had a heart complaint . |