Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] because i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I think a lot of them were genuinely concerned , as in my case I think this person was genuinely worried about me because I 'd had , it was my third child and I I do think she was er worried about me because er you know you do n't want to keep having babies and losing them but I was n't worried about , I was worried about myself , to say I was n't worried that 's stupid , but er we just hoped and hoped and kept hoping . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll do him for me because I ask and because he 's a lousy , rotten drug-pusher . |
| 3 | In other respects , however , the summer school was very useful for me because I met many of the leading people in the field . |
| 4 | Having graduated from a BBC machine to a PC I have found your magazine the best for me because I like the practical side as well as the computing . |
| 5 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |
| 6 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 7 | And that 's frustrating for you and it 's equally frustrating for me because I know there 's absolutely nothing I can do |
| 8 | The Aldershot method was particularly important for me because I realised that it 's something we use every day or we see every day er and it emotionally prepares the audience the listener for what I 'm going to say . |
| 9 | But of course it went , you see with the traffic and things like that I 'd perhaps it would n't have been s quite so handy for me because I 'd no parking room there because there was a big back to there . |
| 10 | ‘ It was especially bad for me because I played with a guitar that had a floating bridge , which did n't really help things . |
| 11 | It is a learning experience for me because I have only a general knowledge of the economic and financial world . |
| 12 | I could n't bear that they should always pay for me because I did n't want them to know how awful Robert had become . |
| 13 | That happens to be all right for me because I do not have to commute regularly but it could be a consideration . |
| 14 | It did n't er it is a difficult for me because I do n't have the figures er but er Mr er my assistant who er er did do the detailed work , er tells me that it did n't provide as much traffic relief to the A sixty one as did a western relief . |
| 15 | I have always looked after it because I know that I can not afford another one . ’ |
| 16 | IT frightens the life out of me because I fear I 'll never work again . |
| 17 | ‘ It frightens the life out of me because I fear I 'll never work again . |
| 18 | More than sixty years after the event , while watching a child of his own try out his first steps , he suddenly stated in reminiscence and satisfaction to his most intimate Spanish friend , ‘ I remember that I learned to walk by pushing a big tin box of sweet biscuits in front of me because I knew what was inside . ’ |
| 19 | The boys at school used to make fun of me because I have a crooked spine . |
| 20 | I did n't think there were any prints on the other rounds , and there ca n't be any of mine because I handled them in gloves . |
| 21 | And I can do nothing for you because I 've come to rescue and seek that which is lost , and which is aware of it . |
| 22 | Erm but there will be a new set of tutorials provided for you because I think there 's a general recognition that you 've been very badly treated indeed er as regards this erm and they 're likely to be run by me in term three , okay ? |
| 23 | Charles , her husband , jokes all the time about what I 'm wearing , insists that I join them for formal dinners late at night , and then teases me throughout them because I 've never eaten squid before , and I do n't know what haggis is made of . |
| 24 | And also someone like him because I mean , I mean er obviously he , he seemed like a , I mean I 'm sure he 's a nice guy er I mean when it comes down to it he probably is a nice guy , he 's probably nice to her but it 's just the fact that he is so restricted in his views and |
| 25 | In other words I wo n't say it 's non-threatening or does n't have any kind of value judgment behind it because I do n't think that can be true and if anybody is monitoring their classroom practice , it 's got to be threatening in some way , almost inevitably . |
| 26 | Then why were you so mad with me because I made those arrangements ? ’ |
| 27 | And after that it seemed so horrible , is there something even more wrong with me because I thought it was so horrible ? ’ |
| 28 | I used to have a load of homework to take home with me because I had to catch up but I did n't used to mind that . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're angry with me because I checked up on your background ? ’ |
| 30 | This does n't cut any ice with me because I believe that none of these directors would be in on the board if they were n't invited there by yourself . |