Example sentences of "because [pers pn] have an " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't possibly allow myself to be happy now , because I had an affair/caused a car crash/stole some money/had sex with my brother or sister/ was cruel to my dog/betrayed my best friend — five , ten or twenty years ago . |
| 2 | I have realities because I have an education . |
| 3 | I should like to intervene only for a moment because I have an important constituency interest in that Gatwick , a major inter-national airport , is within my constituency . |
| 4 | You ca n't stand at the front door and say no you ca n't come in at all apart from its being completely irrational erm the point would be that , because I have an obligation to carry out this work , I have a right to the means to fulfil that obligation . |
| 5 | Terry I want you to piss off because I have an exam tomorrow . |
| 6 | In view of this , it would be no more than proper and right for me to talk in some in great detail about it , but I am not going to , and not just because I have an eye on the clock , or an ear for the protest of stomachs . |
| 7 | I 've always maintained the analogy that working with Fleetwood Mac was like movie making , because you have an idea , but to get from point A to point B you 've got to go through all these steps . |
| 8 | She will twist your poor rich senile arm to pay you out , because you have an airy house on the hill , and she goes home to a room in the damp and humid valley . |
| 9 | She said she was going to miss one that evening because she had an appointment at a Chelsea wine bar . |
| 10 | They would write a note claiming , for example , ‘ Debbie was off because she had an upset stomach ’ when , in fact , the children were perfectly well . |
| 11 | How she hated calling him that , not just because she had an American 's disdain for such outdated nonsense but because Nicolo obviously relished the title . |
| 12 | She seems to think the doctors believe she is a bad mother because she has an anorexic daughter . |
| 13 | We could n't bring her into the house because we had an old cat and we had no spare kennels , so that just left the caravan . |
| 14 | Yes indeed er because we had an agreement and er w the men that I worked beside were quite prepared to honour an agreement once it was established . |
| 15 | On the entertainments side er , last year of course we had that one-off benefit with not having to absorb the first quarter 's loss and this year the er first quarter was pretty disastrous because we had an er er an er amalgamation of , of A the Gulf War B the recession and in London I R A bombing and that really stopped tourists coming to London from overseas and from the rest of the U K. But I 'm pleased to say that er we , we 're coming back very strongly and for instance in July at virtually all of our centres attendances were either up to last year very nearl very nearly up to last year or ahead of last year and er at Chessington our revenue was thirteen and a half percent up on last year which I think justifies our investment there . |
| 16 | Remember , the Labour Party was formed for working people because we had an unsympathetic Tory government . |
| 17 | Because we had an interest in comparing methodologies , a second , simpler scoring system for clinical severity , as described by Costa et al , was also used . |
| 18 | Ivan 's coronation is particularly relevant to our theme because we have an eye-witness account of the spectacle he and his Empress presented immediately afterwards . |
| 19 | because we have an awful problem with impact when we land again . |
| 20 | Yes , and that is because we have an approved structure plan which indicates the general extent of the greenbelt , and we 're not talking here about an inner boundary or an outer boundary , we 're concerned with a pre-standing settlement . |
| 21 | To say that a dog eats because it wants to is as uninformative as to say that dinosaurs got larger because they had an inner drive to do so . |
| 22 | Most groups form after a shared devotion to the works of some particular group or an affinity for a particular style-sound-wash , but Guy ( keyboards ) , Fraggle ( guitar ) , Carl ( bass ) , Henry ( drums ) and Fil ( vocals ) hatched their idea whilst squatting a disused dole office in Peckham , South London , just because they had an attitude in common . |
| 23 | The first defendants were liable because they had an opportunity to examine the tool . |
| 24 | Police officers called at seventy seven year old Emilly Thomas 's home because they had an arrest warrant for her grandson James Bellamy , who was indide . |
| 25 | And actually , er , it does n't , it implies that her it 's , of the Lowood , but in fact er it improved because they had an outbreak of erm typhus did n't they ? |
| 26 | One because the nation was sort of a people who had seen themselves homeless from these start and God had given them a home so they took special care of sojourners and aliens , and secondly , I think , because they had an enlightened attitude towards debt . |
| 27 | All too often students have difficulty or fail in their learning because they have an imperfect grasp of some concept , or because they have not learned some particular skill . |
| 28 | They point out that nursery rhymes are not nursery rhymes for nothing ; it could be that the genuine Turkish nursery rhyme is intrinsically more memorable than the nonsense rhyme ; nursery rhymes , after all , catch on in part because they have an innately pleasing rhythm . |
| 29 | Raw berries should be cooked and sweetened before being eaten because they have an intensely bitter flavour . |
| 30 | Also , they do it better because they have an advantage you don't-another name . |