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 . |