Example sentences of "[adv] because i [vb base] a " in BNC.
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1 | Yeah alright we 'd better go and put the flowers in because I put a lot of the plants out this mo today . |
2 | I am , I am told , a post-feminist merely because I prefer a constructive approach to the achievement of equality rather than one that is essentially negative . |
3 | ‘ It would n't matter much because I have a reputation , one that I 'm really stretching to the full in doing a feature on sunny Spain . |
4 | Crilly reminds me that I 'm American too , and just because I know a few words of British slang , I should n't be getting airs about myself . |
5 | ‘ Just because I do a good job for her business does not mean that I wish to sleep with her . ’ |
6 | Just because I have a dark blue saloon car … well , does that make me a murderer ? ’ |
7 | And this is not a sales pitch just because I have a contract with Wilson to make the clubs . |
8 | In view of this , it would be no more than proper and right for me to talk in some in great detail about it , but I am not going to , and not just because I have an eye on the clock , or an ear for the protest of stomachs . |
9 | Terry I want you to piss off because I have an exam tomorrow . |
10 | yeah , right okay then , we shall go , I hope the weather keeps up because I want a good week next week , we 're gon na work out where we 're gon na go for a couple of days are n't we ? |
11 | ‘ It 's partly make-up and partly because I drink a lot of water , ’ the princess replied , according to one of the home 's sponsors . |
12 | This is probably because I have a romantic disposition . |
13 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |
14 | Is the tape recorder still on because I have a word that is |
15 | There are great dangers in the royal family speaking out because I have a memory of the nineteen seventy nine , just prior to the devolution bill in the referendum in Scotland , when the Queen spoke out against devolution , now she in , in effect denied a large number of Scots the opportunity to have some sort of Scottish Parliament based here , and we probably would n't , I think , be debating this subject today , if in fact we 'd got that eleven years ago . |
16 | So I 've looked after myself but I 've worked hard as well because I like a certain lifestyle and it costs a fair amount to sustain . |
17 | Well because I think a thanksgiving service for victory and for praying for those who 've died on both sides , I think that 's perfectly reasonable , but a victory parade , goodness a hundred thousand Iraquis died . |