Example sentences of "[be] [adv] because i " in BNC.

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1 If you 're here because I said certain things about you after the race , you can sod off back south right now . ’
2 You 're here because I said you should be here . ’
3 The speed may be just because I 'm press , of course — Which ? magazine said this week the AA is slowest of the big motoring organisations to answer a call .
4 It might be partly because I did n't kick up a fuss when I lost the captaincy .
5 Yeah , no it would n't be tomorrow because I think my mum 's working so
6 I 'm not here just to be Chairman , I 'm here because I believe in things . ’
7 ‘ Perhaps we should encourage young novelists ’ ; ‘ the Booker Prize is a media junket ’ ; ‘ actually , I 'm here because I wrote the book ’ .
8 I 'm here because I got a bum stepfather .
9 Mrs Thatcher herself supported this reading : ‘ I 'm here because I believe in things — because I 'm always thinking forward ’ ( speaking on Panorama , 25 January 1988 ) .
10 And I 'm here because I work in pencil .
11 And I 'm here because I work in pencil .
12 ‘ Well , I 'm here because I want to help you … ‘
13 I 'm here because I drew the short straw when Jan Killeen was dishing out people to chair particular interest groups in preparation for this work , and I drew the job of chairing the group on private care issues .
14 ‘ I 'm here because I wanted this job . ’
15 I 'm here because I believe that we share many objectives and because I know that there 's more that unites us than divides us .
16 I 'm here because I want to be , because I like your company , and I think we should be enjoying it .
17 I think if Jeff Beck ever remembered having met me it would be precisely because I did n't crawl all over him in sycophancy .
18 ‘ I am here because I was asked to come by Claudia .
19 ‘ I am here because I live here , but why are you here ? ’
20 ‘ I am here because I choose to be , ’ she said sharply , despite the rapid race of her pulse .
21 And that 's only because I had good teachers — I do n't think that I have any special superhuman gift for it . ’
22 ‘ Well , lad , it 's only because I think you 're worth somebody better than her .
23 I mean that would have been a disaster I mean it 's only because I was upstairs and I thought oh I can smell boiling .
24 ‘ It 's only because I know you so well , Peachcake .
25 It 's only because I know Rome quite well that they 've asked me — Athens I do n't know at all . ’
26 It 's only because I 'm just out of hospital . ’
27 Yeah but that 's only because I er I owe a grand in poll tax you see .
28 It 's all because I got stabbed
29 I suspect that is merely because I have always been able to anticipate when a fox is likely to be present as the result of scent , footprints and tell-tale evidence around the burrow mouth .
30 If the truth were known , it is only because I have for so long been lonely that I welcome demands for help .
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