Example sentences of "because [pers pn] have only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked distraught , on the edge of tears , and I was ashamed at once , because I had only suggested divorce to punish him . |
| 2 | In fact , in some ways it 's a lot easier because I 've only got myself to think of these days . |
| 3 | I 'm losing power on the straights , and the three of you had better work at it because I 've only got one more chance ! ’ |
| 4 | Well because I 've only got the life cover , then er , that cover would disappear . |
| 5 | I 'm gon na get some as well you know because I 've only got one and it 's brown , it 's disgusting in it ? |
| 6 | h he 's got a , he 's coming down from Edinburgh and he wants to call in and see me about something and I do n't know what because I 've only spoken to his secretary . |
| 7 | ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know because I have only played with Rush , ’ said Dalglish . |
| 9 | ‘ Mrs Funnell thought it better not to call him because you 'd only taken a small dose . |
| 10 | erm , wo n't you start again because you 'd only got a couple of minutes into it , had n't you ? |
| 11 | You 've got to pay attention to what you 're doing because you 've only got a few laps . ’ |
| 12 | she said Chris oh you 're off the subsidy , she said I 'd got my wages anyway , er because she 'd only collected sixteen hundred and , hundred pounds so that , seven six are forty two , hundred and two pound you see |
| 13 | It was incredible but true — incredible because she 'd only known Fen for a week — incredible because she 'd begun by disliking him — but true that she was in love with him . |
| 14 | ‘ She thought they 'd better have something to drink so she got some sherry , then she was worried because she 's only got those little glasses you know , little tumblers , and she says they 're only for whisky . ’ |
| 15 | Okay , well now , what I would like you to do please er because we 've only got a limited amount of time , er incidentally some of you still have n't divide collecting er a small group going with Peter I |
| 16 | Right , er , we need er , we need thirteen units of pole stakes , because we 've only got sixt , you 've given us twenty nine units . |
| 17 | But I think the actual situation in some of these countries is that erm the loggers especially say like in Sarouac , where the government 's only granted three year licences to logging companies , they 're just going in there , cutting everything down because they 've only got a short space of time , and they 're trying to maximise , obviously , their profit . |
| 18 | We should remember that it was ill the employers " interests to claim that it was not worth providing women with a long training because they would waste it by leaving early ; while it was in the trade union 's interest to claim that women were incompetent because they had only received a short training . |
| 19 | This is because they have only won three matches in a World Cup proper . |
| 20 | My father thought the sentence unjust because he had only agreed to buy a few bottles of bootleg whisky . |
| 21 | And once he makes this decision he he ca n't after a year or two say well no that was wrong , I wo n't I 'll er I 'll change now because he 's only got two years there . |
| 22 | They would n't , because it 's only gone up a penny like , there 's nothing to stop them putting it i , up two penny ! |
| 23 | ‘ Only one on this bike because it 's only got one seat ’ , ( Simon 4.3 ) . |