Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [pron] because [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I confess to having myself once described a particularly abstruse provision as ‘ something of a minor masterpiece of opacity ’ , but I regret it because I think that such shafts are frequently not aimed at the right target . |
| 2 | ‘ I bring you because I know you to be one of us . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ That 's the way I want him because we have a quiet bunch of lads who need bossing about . ’ |
| 4 | I do my exam in January and then I drop it because I go on a teaching practice and I pick it up halfway through third year . |
| 5 | I know it because I see people regularly that retired five years ago six years ago , seven . |
| 6 | I like them because they push back the boundaries . |
| 7 | I like it because I know that every time I walk out on that stage my fingers are getting stronger and I have that much more playing behind me . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I like it because I look pretty like Princess Di . |
| 9 | I believe him because I want to believe him . |
| 10 | I believe him because I feel it . |
| 11 | Like many people who promote the European Community in this country , I promote it because I see enormous financial , economic and environmental advantages for our country . |
| 12 | But I entertain it because I see no other . ’ |
| 13 | No , I ca n't say I like any of these jobs — I do them because they 've got to be done : I 'm here and I 've got to do them ( all said in a dragging monotone ) . |
| 14 | ‘ I do it because I enjoy it . |
| 15 | Oh well I 've it because I 've had two pedigree 's |
| 16 | I , I said well is it alright if I take them because I 've not actually come to see their work |
| 17 | I saw her and I , I be honest with you I hid , I be totally honest and I 'll tell her the same if I see her because I 've just found out then that they could n't do any more for me dad and I really did n't want to speak or see anybody and I sat in the canteen on my own , I just said to me mum , mum on the phone I said mum I need to do this on my own I said I 'm just gon na have a coffee in the cafeteria and I do n't know if you 've been in there but the cafeteria is all glass and she pulled up in a white van delivering something to the office , I thought oh no it 's Jenny she 's the last bleeding person I want there , I do n't mean that |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't live with my daughter but I see her because I live in New York and she lives with her mother . |
| 19 | ‘ You hate me because I have the cash , you hate me because I 'm not tied to a counter in a shop or slaving down the mines for it . |
| 20 | Not that you suspect him because you do n't like the look of him walking the streets — he 's got to be a suspected person . |
| 21 | You amuse me because you take yourself so seriously … ’ |
| 22 | You , you do n't marry someone because you want to be on your own , you marry someone because you want to be together . |
| 23 | ‘ There 's making love to order on the one hand , ’ says Matthew , ‘ and there 's not having sex when you fancy it because you know you must conserve your sperm for the optimum moment in the month . ’ |
| 24 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that slightly depressing statement that of Eyre 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could immediately follow that by saying just because there 's a word for it maybe you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self-validating in a sense . |
| 25 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that a slightly depressing statement , that of Ayer 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could perhaps immediately follow that by saying ‘ Just because there 's a word for it maybe , you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self- validating in a sense ? ’ |
| 26 | But if you have n't got that amount of capital it takes capital out of your hands and you ca n't spend it in five years time if you need it because you 've given it away effectively forever . |
| 27 | To put this another way , we can predict what is going to happen in most of the situations in which we find ourselves because we have expectations that certain rules will be followed . |
| 28 | Not just because of what you 've said , that wetted our appetite , that intrigued us , that aroused our curiosity , but we believe it because we have seen and heard for ourselves and we 've recognized his authority . |
| 29 | Because the difference between us and the Tories is when we mean we support for Eastern Europe , we do n't just talk about it glibly , we go there and we do it because we see the future of Europe being the future of our own people here in . |
| 30 | Rather , they say it because they think it must be like that . |