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

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1 ‘ I suppose you 're here because you heard that Riddle was the father of my baby ? ’
2 You come to spend more time together than you are now because you go home in the evenings she goes out .
3 They never think about it ? but when the day of the lord comes , you shall be like because you 've been born gain in his
4 I 'm here because you forced me to come , and I 'll leave as soon as you find your brother-in-law . ’
5 This could be either because you have reached a voluntary agreement between yourselves regarding money or because you have both agreed on a clean financial break .
6 I mean I think you and say that you know I mean I think test matches are simply because you know over time , you know people are in to the one day cricket match , be the excitement and everything else and it 's getting increasingly more difficult for television companies to get sponsorship , commercial sponsorship for
7 ‘ I am here because you belong to me . ’
8 ‘ I am here because you have a legacy from your father .
9 The Walsall Wood Guild was in particular and when you look round , even the Walsall ones were like because you 've got erm er you 've got board members .
10 Erm you gave a a very full account of the sort of pressures that erm you were under because you did n't have a job and you related it to the necessity of involving yourself in what you euphemistically called the black economy .
11 Well you must have been round because you 've
12 There is eventually because you learn it .
13 ‘ That 's only because you know I 'll be more efficient at the job .
14 " That 's only because you 've had no practice , " Bower-bird said reassuringly .
15 I dare say , though , knowing you as I do , that it 's only because you 've thought up some other diabolical vengeance to inflict on me . ’
16 And it 's only because you said , previously er , that she was a sort of feminist that when , he said do this do that and she said very frankly to him do you think just because I 'm going to marry you I shall commit ?
17 ‘ Well , it 's only because you gave me a leg-up at the beginning , explaining the theory and such . ’
18 It 's only because you did n't tell your bloody brothers !
19 ‘ It 's only because you stayed — and did what you did — that I can make light of it . ’
20 ‘ It is only because you want to pry , to discover who writes to me , that you come out in this way every morning .
21 Erm certainly I think all of our quarry , the quarry , I think we were overwhelmed with the support because it was really in our place that the dispute started and a lot of other people who I 'd spoken to you know they they were amazed at the support we received and , seemed to be the shyer the people you know the , some of the lads they never spoke much at lodge meetings , but after a while they 'd be getting up and saying their pieces and , you know I think it 's just because you knew you had backing , and people helping and urging you on , advising you , and the union helping and you know they leant over backwards in various fields to help us .
22 It 's just because you feel affection from someone else . "
23 Well okay , those of you who liked the Shakespeare better , for whatever reasons , even if it 's just because you did n't get to grips with Johnson , which of the plays , first of all , erm did you find most interesting ?
24 Perhaps it 's just because you do n't like her ?
25 It 's not because you 've got any shorter , but we 've dropped the
26 Yes , but I , it 's not because you 've not been well ?
27 But this time , all that is gone ; and it 's not because you have aged a lot , or changed .
28 Well they 're it 's probably because you packed them all in there too tight .
29 Well it is n't because you 've got
30 But it is n't because you care about animals .
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