Example sentences of "because [pers pn] have [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Girl 's do n't ‘ do ’ the season any more ; it 's not like it was in the past , ’ said Sophia Burrell , 17 , who confessed to having missed most of the grooming session laid on by Lucie Clayton School of Modelling , ‘ because I had to do a law course ’ . |
| 2 | " I was tip nearly all night because I had to lead the first devotions at the High Council , with all those experienced and senior leaders of the Army world . " |
| 3 | We had to be washed , dressed , have our hair immaculate ( which was difficult because I had to plait mine ) , strip all the bedclothes off our beds ( which seemed totally a pointless exercise and got right up my nose the entire time I was at Styal ) , and fold them to a complicated and immaculate design — sheet , blanket , sheet all wrapped round with the counterpane and put at the end of your bed . |
| 4 | There was no time to think about it , because I had to pick Toby up at ten o'clock — at the crack of dawn , as he put it — to drive down to the Supersight factory . |
| 5 | ‘ Well I have n't heard the official report because I had to go to my board meeting , but if you ask me , Maggie 's dragon did it . ’ |
| 6 | He said , ‘ I do n't know whether you 've heard it , but it 's an old Humble Pie track called Black Coffee … ’ which was fantastic , because I had to go into the studio and copy myself ! |
| 7 | Well we had oh I 'm trying to think what we had today oh got out of assembly because I had to go and speak to this maths teacher who 's dead boring ! |
| 8 | Mr but like I pretended I had to go and see him not because I had to go and see him just because I did n't wan na go to assembly really ! |
| 9 | She said that everything was ordered , and that pleased me because I had to carry it all . |
| 10 | When they started dancing I did n't try and stop them because I had to let them do what they felt was right . ’ |
| 11 | But I was n't that clever , Alice , because I had to let him do it to me before , instead of after . |
| 12 | I said I would , but I would n't see him for a couple of days because I had to take a train . |
| 13 | And er I got roped into it one year because I had to stop in for something or other that I Course I had n't done but |
| 14 | I came back to London before the actual signing of the agreement because I had to attend an Arts Council meeting . |
| 15 | and partly because I had to have an operation which meant that it would n't be easy for me to live in the flats any longer . |
| 16 | My dad says I ca n't have sweets because I had to have some teeth out . |
| 17 | The second one was much more difficult because I had to come up with a script every couple of weeks , and there was so much crammed into each one . |
| 18 | ‘ So I wore little make-up , because I had to blend in . |
| 19 | I used to have a load of homework to take home with me because I had to catch up but I did n't used to mind that . |
| 20 | I was once put on a discipline charge because I had to cycle from here to Lark Lane police station on a very windy day and I got there at eleven |
| 21 | I moved there because I had to find a way to support myself . ’ |
| 22 | I came up to London last night by the last train because I had to face a Monday morning of solid Cabinet Committees . |
| 23 | The General Strike , it 's a strange memory because I had to walk down Pad er now , erm I forget what the proper word is now , er it 's called Walk , now . |
| 24 | because I had to pull out round the stationery vehicle as well , I would off taken too long getting out |
| 25 | Because I had to pay a then he paid off . |
| 26 | But I wo n't be off for long because I 've to follow Marcus . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ And worse still , ’ she says , ‘ I often worry that my other two children are suffering because I have to give so much attention to Graham . ’ |
| 28 | Second , because I have to go down and sort out Deptford . |
| 29 | That you did n't come up specially , because I have to leave now . |
| 30 | I know it is true , because I have to respond to public pressure daily in my job , and that is how issues become prominent and how spending priorities are established . |