Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] because [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got done because they wanted a scapegoat . |
| 2 | I stopped working because I decided that the only way to make it was to go full time . |
| 3 | And er that 's how I performed the , but I kept it to myself all these years you know and never told anybody what I 'd done because I think it was terrible . |
| 4 | But I 'd disappeared because I 'd a man shouting ‘ fruit and vegetables ’ ( in those days , you had to have your name and address on your cart ) . |
| 5 | Ali himself has acknowledged this : ‘ I started boxing because I thought this was the fastest way for a black person to make it in this country ’ ( quoted by Torres , 1971 , p.83 ) . |
| 6 | Well I did stop because I tried to avoid him . |
| 7 | And I could n't bear to be with women I did like because it reminded me forcibly that they did n't turn me on . ’ |
| 8 | This time I did see because he had uncannily identified one of my private sources of shame and voiced my own concomitant mantra . |
| 9 | I had to finish because I started trying to make everybody laugh . |
| 10 | I ai n't been to no doctor 's , well I 'm lying I had to go again , I had to like because I 've been getting these here bloody , I must 've had them ten or fifteen year or more and , cos I 'm on these here tablets now for the old stomach like , and that like . |
| 11 | I 'd smoked a joint and taken tincture of cannabis , which is something I had done because I did n't smoke cigarettes and the hippies around me would say , ‘ Give her a spoonful of tincture of cannabis so that she 'll get stoned ’ but I did n't know if cocaine was like that . |