Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [be] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I do n't mind housework because I 'm not at it all day . |
| 2 | But I 'm afraid that I must ride , because I 'm not at my next appointment so . |
| 3 | ‘ I know because I was there at the time . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't really know because I was never at the pier when when a |
| 5 | If you stall accidentally it is almost always because you are not aware of the low speed , etc. and therefore all the training in the world will not prevent you from responding instinctively because you are not at that moment aware that you are stalled . |
| 6 | But er I would warn you about er er accounts which obviously tie your money for a lot longer than maybe six months or a year because you 're always at the mercy of the er of the er building society then if their rates turn down or if you want access , you 've got penalties , and I think if , there 's no point in chasing interest rates through building societies generally , because if you take an average over five years , there is n't a lot of difference between one society and another . |
| 7 | And I expect that same thing happens with the work related one , that because you 're never at work on your own , or hardly ever at work on your own , and the same thing when you started , you were n't ever on your own , you could say to people , am I doing it right . |
| 8 | But because you 're still at school they think you 're dirty and disgusting and they call you a slag , but it could happen to then any day . |
| 9 | Could n't have been , because she was n't at home . |
| 10 | With a lame smile , because she was n't at all sure if Terry was being serious or not , Ellie groaned when her tummy chose that moment to give an embarrassing rumble . |
| 11 | Frankly , it was as well for her that she was sitting down , because she was n't at all confident her own knees could cope . |
| 12 | The view was doubly breath-taking firstly because we were now at 13,000ft ( 4000m ) and , after a long morning 's walk were beginning to feel the effects of the thin air ; and secondly because the vista before us was absolutely astounding . |
| 13 | We told him it 's elapsed because they 're not at Dagenham any more and he does n't like it . |
| 14 | because er well I er I , as I and I 've got young neighbours who I very seldom see because they are out at work er therefore I am quiet and that 's how I like to be |
| 15 | " You ca n't see Andrew Stavanger , because he 's away at the moment . |
| 16 | These golfing gatherings are followed by the cocktail party where amateurs want to get pleasantly tiddled with Greg Norman who , in turn , intends to remain one-beer sober because he 's off at 8.10 a.m. in the main event next day and knows drinking and driving can lead to out-of-bounds at first light . |
| 17 | He reckoned the boy had doubled the price for his ice cream because he was up at the smart end of town , not plying his usual pitch at the bottom of the Acropolis . |
| 18 | did n't know what had been happening because he was n't at the meeting . |
| 19 | Yet Ellcock , an intelligent man with strong views on the game , graciously allowed the Daily Mail to photograph him ‘ celebrating ’ at home watching Sky TV as Wayne Larkins hit the winning run in the Jamaica Test when he probably felt like crying again because he was not at Sabina Park to share the moment . |
| 20 | Well he was still there at ten because he was there at half past ten . |
| 21 | I write that the paradox is apparent because there have been signs of the same phenomenon in England over the past few seasons — and also because it is not at all surprising when you come to think about it . |
| 22 | In the first example , however , there was no talk of heirs , and so it is more difficult to establish a trust in favour of somebody because it is not at all clear who its beneficiaries are supposed to be . |
| 23 | Not exactly , if only because it is precisely at this point that Volpone shows how the normal is parasitic upon the perverse . |
| 24 | Sometimes you need a lot of volume , because it 's only at high volumes that you get certain frequencies and certain kinds of feedback . |
| 25 | Manchester provided a good site for developing a dye industry because it was both at the heart of the Lancashire textile industry and it was close to a developing university . |