Example sentences of "because i have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was having a ‘ surfeit of sex and grog because I had temporarily lost the power to feel ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ For nearly two years I did nothing , but as I had worked very hard very young , I had no feeling of guilt that I had to do something , because I had already proved that when I wanted to work , I could do it . ’ |
| 3 | She did n't say what it was or who published it or anything , but it made me you know think you know , so I wrote to her care of Writers something and erm asked her what 's the name of it I would like to read it because I had also written something about the er American Indians and erm er who 's the publisher or what 's it called , I 'd like to read it . |
| 4 | Read had not been particularly interested in my political book ( which I had submitted to him in fulfilment of the option clause in my contract with Routledge , so I got together some more representative pieces and sent them to Eliot , no least because he had published my article on ‘ Philosophy and Politics ’ in The Criterion , and because I had again spoken about my plans at our first meeting after the war . |
| 5 | I could have run away , but I had no money and , even if I had been able to borrow it , I should still have been too frightened because I had nowhere to run to . |
| 6 | Then they put us in the Fleming Hospital in Newcastle , me and the bairn , because I had nowhere else to go . |
| 7 | I was emotionally prepared because I had just had what seemed to me then an incredibly traumatic experience . |
| 8 | I was feel very proud of myself because I had just progressed from a tiny red tricycle to riding a huge yellow proper bicycle , with stabilizers . |
| 9 | Madam Deputy Speaker , erm there 'll be no need for any pruning from the chair because I had just mentioned the word banks at the very point that you madam speaker , got up and I can assure that er pruning would not be in order . |
| 10 | I painted the head of a dog on the canvas in red paint because I had yet to learn I was not a Canis . |
| 11 | I could tell by her voice that she had just said something which she believed , and I was surprised , because I had somehow thought her too clever really to believe anything . |
| 12 | I used to listen to other children describing holidays in Bournemouth or Butlin 's or Benidorm , and not wanting to feel out of it I used to invent mine because I had never been anywhere ! |
| 13 | I suspected it was because I had never been properly in love with anyone before , and the sensation was too strange , too pleasant , and too personal for sharing . |
| 14 | I liked the experience because I had never done it . |
| 15 | For a short time I was completely clammed up with Marian because I had never been allowed to talk about myself with my wife . |
| 16 | I was very worried , because I had never done anything like it in my life and I 'm not at all handy , but I got a reputation for being a worker . |
| 17 | I was terrified because I had never been in a proper prison before , and I had heard about Styal . |
| 18 | I was a bit lost because I had never been anywhere before , but I was met in a pony and trap and taken to my new employer . |
| 19 | Before without really knowing it , I was just preparing for that one lesson to get through that one lesson , but partly I think as a matter of survival in this situation , because I had never taught children before and really did n't have an overview at that point . |
| 20 | I find that an extraordinary statement of policy , because I had always believed that , in so far as it had any justification at all , the Labour party 's commitment to unilateralism , to the closure of bases , to the withdrawal from NATO , was based on a principle — on a deeply held conviction that those things were wrong . |
| 21 | However , I never tested the bikes because I had really set my mind on staying on a 500 . ’ |
| 22 | Perhaps , because I had really addressed myself to him for the first time , he thought we were in accord . |
| 23 | Something had changed , because I had suddenly realised that what I was trying to do was impossible . |
| 24 | I was pissed off at them leaving me like that because I had hardly any other friends in Leeds . |
| 25 | Some twenty-five years later , when I became interested in hypnosis and then in regression therapy , I began to wonder whether my earlier fascination was because I had actually lived in Tudor times . |
| 26 | And because I had only one chair , we used to sit on the edge of the hard , narrow bed and draw up the table so that we could write on it together . |
| 27 | He looked distraught , on the edge of tears , and I was ashamed at once , because I had only suggested divorce to punish him . |
| 28 | But the crying really upset mother , and because I had so strictly adhered to the feeding rule , I developed an abscess on one breast . |
| 29 | It took me about six months to even be able to hear what he 'd done ; I just could n't relate to it because I had so many preconceptions about what I thought it should be . |
| 30 | I knew the farmer who was hiding him , Signor Merli , because I had often met him in the bank , and I knew he was a very honest and reliable man who would never betray anybody . |