Example sentences of "because [pron] [verb] n't [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I had n't been around much , I had n't been away from home |
| 2 | ‘ Of course you would n't understand that because you have n't been here long enough . ’ |
| 3 | Certainly I hope they take that into consideration when we do the er annual report and what we 've done because we have n't been half as active as what we have in the past , |
| 4 | ‘ Friday nights because we have n't been together for four nights , Sundays because we know there are another four ahead of us , and … why Saturdays ? ’ |
| 5 | Mildred , however , had been given a rather dim-witted tabby because there had n't been quite enough black ones to go round . |
| 6 | I do n't recall the good times I 've had at Wembley with anything like the same frequency — not just because there have n't been as many of them ( my personal Wembley record is played ten , won two , lost eight ) , but because when you support a football team , misery is the only currency that can purchase real ecstasy . |
| 7 | Because of the weight of the tiles , you have to be particularly careful if you 're thinking of covering whole walls — there have been instances of large sections of tiles coming away from a wall because they have n't been properly fixed . |
| 8 | He 'd had an irrational feeling that something must have happened in his absence , simply because he had n't been there , but he was wrong . |