Example sentences of "because [pron] have been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | You learn by doing , because you have been talking for a long time . |
| 2 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
| 3 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |
| 4 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 5 | They 'd be secondhand shoes because they 've been worn for three days . |
| 6 | The fog lifted and the house became filled with a babble of excitable people , few of whom spoke English and who all arrived at once because they 'd been waiting for a clear passage . |
| 7 | She was well aware that it would seem thoroughly feeble — if not downright pathetic — to refuse to accompany him to New York simply because they had been separated for almost five years . |
| 8 | The justice ministry said yesterday , however , that because they had been held for more than two years without trial , they were released . |
| 9 | And who was it who said that when he agreed to play the Devil in the Witches of Eastwick , it was because he had been practising for the role all his life ? |
| 10 | Everyone thought Pratesi was the buyer because he 's been talking for years about building a bigger place , rearing his own pigs and growing his own feed . |
| 11 | The basic view is best expressed by Skinner himself : ‘ A person disposed to act because he has been reinforced for acting may feel the conditions of his body at such a time and call it ‘ felt purpose' ’ , but what behaviourism rejects is the causal efficacy of that feeling . ’ |
| 12 | The third party is now commonly known as an expert , usually because he has been chosen for his expertise about the issue between the parties . |
| 13 | At lunch , Dick Hansen decided that the pieces he could see ( because it had been disassembled for shipping ) from the pictures merited a closer look and so Dick called the owner to verify the price . |
| 14 | Our use of some light music on the Fort San Programme was excused because it had been requested for those patients recovering in hospital . |
| 15 | The clients expect and understand that quite well now , because it 's been happening for about two or three years . |
| 16 | ( In fact it is Grade II starred because it has been inhabited for more than 1,000 years . ) |