Example sentences of "because i have [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way , because I had misunderstood him a bit . |
2 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
3 | ‘ Because I had invited him to my house . |
4 | Because I had taught him about it you know , from coming from . |
5 | And although I was sharing the pain with her , still I was exulting , because I had made her mine , and what I had had and what I had taken , no man ever in the world could have of her . |
6 | She said that everything was ordered , and that pleased me because I had to carry it all . |
7 | But I was n't that clever , Alice , because I had to let him do it to me before , instead of after . |
8 | When they started dancing I did n't try and stop them because I had to let them do what they felt was right . ’ |
9 | I was lucky because I had turned my back on illusion , pursuing instead common-sense reality . |
10 | ‘ I 've stopped because I had hoped you 'd give me an explanation . ’ |
11 | It is all up to you — and I decided that I was never going to say anything to her because I had done it all on my own . |
12 | I did n't recommend it because I had seen what it had done to sensitive artists like Scott Walker . |
13 | because I had seen it painted twice |
14 | Because I had seen my young brother-in-law and I says I 'm gon na be like that then , did n't fe er feel any of this er at that time . |
15 | Trying to escape by going to the only other bar in Woodstock , where I was chased around a table by The Psychedelic Furs because I had given them a bad review in a music paper . |
16 | While I was being so damned honest all of a sudden , there was no use pretending any longer that I had chosen the obscure fishing village of Collioure for a holiday for any other reason than because I had heard he usually went there . |
17 | Er , I 've been robbed and swindled , er I was burgled two months ago , my house was wrecked all my jewellery every thing taken simply because I had left my windows open slightly , now I 've got to sleep at night with all my windows closed and I do n't get a good nights sleep apart from feeling insecure any way and er the swindle er I trusted people and now I ca n't trust any body and that leaves you feeling very insecure . |
18 | The time I went before that , I got erm , like a frostbitten thumb , because I was going up on the chair lift , and er , I dropped one of my gloves , and it was quite a cold day , so by the time I 'd got to the top , and skied all the way back down , and then down the road going back to try and find me gloves , because I had borrowed them from a friend , |
19 | With my finances stretched to the limit because I had committed myself to spending all of that May in the Highlands , I drove back to the pub in Glenelg to consider it . |
20 | now if I want to go down to the sea front well I 'll shall get a taxi and , and sha n't be worrying where me next meals coming from because I 've saved it , so , so that 's , that 's no worry , I was saying to Arthur if we went to Butlins well it would take all we had , because it , we could n't go to Butlins under three hundred pounds for two of us , we could n't go anywhere else , if we go to Blackpool , our , our said to , to , to dad , I , I would like to pop to , er I do n't think we will do because , er , the hassle for your dad , but er , I 'd like to go and see aunty Annie , but I do n't want to go to Nelson to do it |
21 | Or perhaps because I 've lulled her with bedtime stories embroidering our favourite theme : once upon a time there was a girl named Gittel , who had a curse called down upon her … |
22 | and , er I always say that I am so grateful I am not , because I 've seen what it 's done and our Marg with Val her sister , we 've both got sisters who are extremely jealous you 've seen them , you 've seen jealously eat away at them |
23 | Now , you did once tell me , very very recently in fact , that you were the the father of this Council s with rather a contradiction in fact was that because I 've seen you trotting around the corridors of this er this Council and it you 're more like the baby of the Council than er than the father , but I I do bow to your superior knowledge of Councilling . |
24 | I think there must be because I 've seen it several times now and just in , in , you know |
25 | The experience Mr Chairman I have of these situations is that trees happen to fall down , and hedges happen to get pushed by bulldozers , and at the end of the day , because I 've seen it in my own village where I was born , I 'm afraid with all respect to what happens , what is actually passed by the planners does n't actually come to pass because there is always a reason why it ca n't . |
26 | No , well because I 've seen it before . |
27 | You may not feel it at the moment because I 've blocked your mind from the pain . |
28 | ‘ Because I 've lost my watch . ’ |
29 | Because I 've achieved what I wanted , and he 's achieved what he wanted . |
30 | Andrew : Because I 've done it before . |