Example sentences of "because i found [pron] " in BNC.

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1 She says she did the Byrd show ‘ because I found her a fascinating part of the underground scene in New York , and I felt somebody should expose her to a bigger market .
2 I was happy that he was being made to go to the hospital to have his ankle set in plaster , and because I found him very simpatico I was determined to go and see him there .
3 I had chosen the right moment , because I found him , not so much irresolute as musing on the possibility of being wiped out by ‘ a stray bomb ’ .
4 Half of them in self-defence because I found myself so attracted to you .
5 I enjoyed Prime Minister because I found it much the most relaxed of the offices I held .
6 ‘ I was a bit young to go there because I found it difficult to get to know people , ’ he says .
7 Perhaps it was because I found it hard to define his place on the island .
8 I left the team because the low pay would not cover the cost of my share in a mortgage to buy my own flat , and because I found it difficult to reconcile the separate roles of paid worker and friend , when Helen and Elizabeth recognised no such distinction .
9 I , i it used to be something I put up with when I was younger , now , if my parents come to visit I ask them to smoke in the corridor , go out of the door , open a window , something , because I found it affects me so badly !
10 I know because I found it , 349 years later .
11 Did anybody leave that scarf behind last night because I found it on my chair .
12 Actually , it just happened because I found I was engaging with people who had similar interests to myself .
13 But I must have felt the need for some support , because I found I 'd grabbed hold of one of my hammers — a geologist is always armed with a hammer — and when I got through to the back of the house he was there already , at the kitchen window . ’
14 ‘ No , nor I , and although I might have wanted , so very many times , over the past few years , to walk away , shed my responsibilities , let them all get the hell on with it , perhaps I 'm a marginally better person than I had thought , because I found I could n't do it .
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