Example sentences of "because [pers pn] had [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You chose not to deny it because I had Maria Luisa on my arm .
2 It was the first time in my life I had acted like a complete sod to other people , and I felt that my behaviour was worse because I had loads of advantages the lesser recruits did n't : I could speak French ; I was basically healthier and therefore found fitness much easier ; I was a north European Caucasian which endeared me to some of the more racist instructors .
3 That 's because I had fluid on one of my lungs .
4 I mean , there was no way I was going to come across as an anal retentive simply because I had pride in my appearance .
5 And the headmaster taking me on stage and showing everybody what a bad example I was , because I had shoes like crocodiles .
6 Oldham only looked threatening Id imagine because I had victor on my shoulder telling me they were bound to score .
7 I thought that just because I had money , I would somehow be accepted more .
8 ( I subsequently had ( 27 April ) a site meeting with an EGBT official , who completed a proposal form on the spot — however , the funding aspects are not my main concern here ; suffice it to say , 1 ) that I have always been confident that funding would be secured from one source or another , and 2 ) that my direct approach to SNH was done only because I had indications that their project approvals took months rather than weeks — something I have subsequently been assured is not true ) .
9 ‘ They became alarmed because I had access to security force files of theirs , and all security force personnel through the central computer if I wished .
10 I mean and when I was a spooler I , I really enjoyed it because I had job satisfaction at the spooling ,
11 Probably because I had brothers .
12 Essex Street was a tough quarter because you had bobby-beaters there .
13 That 's right , because you had sugar in your wee and we thought we really must have a look at what we 've got , your fasting blood sugar was absolutely fine , so that looks normal .
14 When you went into the er higher grade , then you got jotters , because you had homework , so you 'd homework to do and you 'd , therefore , books .
15 The Queen was forced to cancel engagements because she had flu .
16 One time Grandma was coming to stay but did n't in the end because she had flu .
17 I do rather resent it when there are other council committees , there 's Town Hall Strategy Working Party in the afternoon , now if we 're going to be sure that we can all get to this without conflict with other committees , erm I had to be there on behalf of the Lord Mayor because she had duties , erm and I was very sorry not to be able to come , because I have dealt , visited many occupational , I wanted to visit the officers , and you know , it is n't always possible where you have a conflict of interests .
18 Well what she bought she gave it all to Mary because she had Ben 's birthday party .
19 I was not only a late mistake but my mother had just had her breast removed because she had cancer before I was born .
20 The girls respected her because she had nerve and a good front of confidence , and because she possessed a very smart line in jerseys and fancy stockings , and wore shoes so fashionable that to the untrained eye they looked positively orthopaedic .
21 He had been afraid to lay her in her cot because she had wind , a Manchester inquest heard yesterday .
22 And we called it the man-killer because we had ridge and furrow land down there , and this darn thing they was taking , and nothing would come over the top for ages , and suddenly the whole lot would come over on top of you , of course it as well , and you had to that 's what we were doing .
23 When we , we using B H C vaccine in eigh er , late seventies , early eighties , erm , that caused problems because we had residues left in the meat , and the French amongst others found it as well , so there were , there were problems there , and the Ministry went over to organo-phos or to organo-phosphorus dips , they were the only alternative that they 'd got at that er , time .
24 Because we had sleet did n't we last night ?
25 After that you know surprises were n't as big and er it just worked out that you know the particular market that we 're into was neglected here and then apparently it was neglected in Australia because we had Maggie you know a number one hit in Australia before we went out .
26 Because we had evidence that memories of the exercise tended to fade quickly , it was decided to exclude schools which had submitted reports at the very earliest stage ( autumn 1980 to summer 1981 ) , and schools which were not due to submit reports until the last stage of the first cycle ( autumn 1985 to early 1986 ) were also excluded because they could not be expected to have made much of a start on the process .
27 Well he was a very active man my word he would soon go right from the house to the top of as you would say because we had sheep then .
28 ‘ We were on the verge of letting him go because we had George Reilly and a couple of other strikers on the books .
29 Because we had people coming into the town that had come out of rooms one and two rooms in Har , in wherever they came from to Harlow and there were so many things that they required for their home that they could n't afford to have big families and pay their way .
30 The Nazis called it that because we had radio operators we code-named musicians .
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