Example sentences of "[adv] because [pron] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there has to be one guarantee in because I think once we had rather good one , about six people kept , you can never tell how many come , I mean you 'd want maybe bigger , more than , more space in this room . |
| 2 | I keep this all the ti got some you see I 'm trying to group the flowers together because I think they give more effect that way . |
| 3 | Personally , I prefer to speak about learning together because I think it 's more friendly use , er , user friendly I think I understand it better and it reminds me that it 's connected with disciple-ship . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , lad , it 's only because I think you 're worth somebody better than her . |
| 5 | And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election . |
| 6 | The question arises only because you think of having learned the meaning of the word ‘ pain' by some sort of internal ostensive definition . |
| 7 | I 'd like you to write things down because I think you 're gon na remember them , he says , hopefully ! |
| 8 | Fish which respond to herbal treatment are not doing so because they think they should get better . |
| 9 | We have done so because we think they can do it better than anyone else . |
| 10 | There is the question of professional indemnity which I shall return to shortly because I think it might be helpful if the minister were to say something about that . |
| 11 | So when I pe when I sit , when I think oh right I 'll have a piss up session this Saturday and I see one of my friends getting absolutely slaughtered it puts me off straight away because I think oh stupid , what , what a waste . |
| 12 | " We ourselves would not have used a comma in the example above because we think in that example there is a greater degree of interdependence between the parts of the sentence . |
| 13 | Now people will listen to you and they 'll have had , had their own personal goals but they feel not worthy of expressing it anyway because they think , well I 've had this idea , I 'm probably up the creek , and they never say anything . |
| 14 | ‘ Let's not keep on going just because we think we have to . ’ |
| 15 | I do n't want you going just because you think that it will please us — Hans and me . |
| 16 | Do n't abandon hope just because you think oh dear , I ca n't find my receipt . |
| 17 | And then he replied that well just because you think you 're not blind , then you must be |
| 18 | Just because you think of , your heart open the door , you around me |
| 19 | Just because you think you 're coming into your prime you little pipsqueak . |
| 20 | We use the word " mimicry " for these cases , not because we think that the animals consciously imitate other things , but because natural selection has favoured those individuals whose bodies were mistaken for other things . |
| 21 | I have quoted this passage in full , not because I think it is particularly inspired or even well-written , but because it is the nearest attempt I have come across to suggest some of the subjective , hidden meanings that might well make up a performer 's luggage when he expresses himself on stage . |
| 22 | I much prefer to find my own swims , not because I think I can find better swims than anyone else , but because I get a great deal of satisfaction from being able to study a piece of water , select a swim as a likely chub haunt , and then find that I am right . |
| 23 | Not because I think I want to look young but just because I like to go to bed early . ’ |
| 24 | Erm quite rightly the director said that predictions in terms of residential admissions and nursing home admissions would be easier to make this year than last year and I accept it was very difficult then year but I 'd just like to know how close the actual outcome is likely to be to the original prediction , really for information , not because I think you could have got it any closer than did but it would be just interesting to know what the s the gap was . |
| 25 | One of the virtues of parental investment er theory I would say is that er it 's particularly sensitive to female interests in , in in sexuality and nobody who knows me or has read er my works would , could possibly suspect me here of fashionable feminist prejudices er so I do n't say this because I think this is what people like to hear , but because I happen to think it 's true , I 'm afraid I 'm one of these old-fashioned and you may think stupid people who believe that you should er say things cos you think they 're true , not because you think er it 's what you think want w want to hear or if you say it , you 'll be accused of sexual harassment by a lecturer as I was last year . |
| 26 | ‘ We became friends very quickly because I think we think in the same way . |
| 27 | I think that 's had it , I think the er man from customs Simon was saving that , the man took it all apart and I think that 's why it probably got broken so quickly because I think they messed with it . |
| 28 | I think the way it should be tackled is speak to about it , say that we still believe that y'know it ca n't go on forever obviously it ca n't go on forever because I think the longer it goes on the worse it 'll become in all honesty |
| 29 | And they chop someone 's hands off because they think it 's OK . |
| 30 | This is partly because we think they should be more widely recognized but also because they can also be wonderfully informative and entertaining . |