Example sentences of "because [pron] 've [adv] been " in BNC.

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1 Very good , very , very good , no I think as I say the only thing I said to Mr I told him that I 'm very upset because I 've always been treated ever so fair by him I mean they 've really been good to us , you ca n't say they 're not , I mean no other Council I do n't think is as good as Harlow Council , well I say that because I know by my friends who live away they 're not er , they do n't get half the benefits that they get here , I mean we are looked after are n't we ?
2 In fact a lot of our you know a lot a lot of the their their the type of business I was in , right ? they wanted the erm home service companies but I also branched out because I 've always been connected .
3 That was the last time I used my LSI because I 've actually been ill since I got back — a touch of the Peruvian tummy-bug , which has put things out of the question ever since
4 I said slowly , ‘ It could be because I 've never been dated by anyone I liked enough . ’
5 I ca n't fall in love with you again because I 've never been out of love with you ! ’
6 ‘ His age is not a problem because I 've never been afraid to take a gamble on players and he could give us another option . ’
7 ‘ That 's because you 've always been in the mainstream of the English popular tradition , ’ said Maximilian .
8 BECAUSE YOU 'VE NEVER BEEN INVITED .
9 Because we 've also been told we 're probably going to lose our jobs in a couple of years unless we 're prepared to move to Glasgow .
10 Indicate erm tt what the percentage was , because we 've always been sitting round this table patting ourselves on the back , saying that er
11 Well it is for us because we 've always been saying it .
12 no , when you get someone 's relative phoning up because they 've just been crushed under a lump of machinery , that 's is very fraught .
13 So nothing that happens to you in the course of your life can possibly change your genes , because they 've already been copied .
14 The two he uses on stage have held up well , though ; it 's remarkable because they 've never been rebuilt and they were made in 1959 .
15 but because they 've never been taught , you know taught to do that sort of thing
16 Those upland fields are the hardest land of all to till , not only because of the incline , but also because they 've recently been reclaimed from the forest and the soil is still heavy with roots and stones .
17 In fact Leamington got a few things wrong , because they 've now been taken over .
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