Example sentences of "because i [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went often , partly because I enjoyed dancing and partly because we were offered the most delicious cakes , of a sort that was almost impossible to obtain except on the black market . |
| 2 | In the end I thought it was a good job that I 'd cut her dead because I began to pick up the gossip about her and found out that she 'd left home when she did because she was pregnant and had had a baby . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's because I came to live here . |
| 4 | Oh no , it was just because I went to talk to my manager about it before I went and I went through my diary with him and everything . |
| 5 | And then it was further endorsed because I went to hear him at Johnstown and I thought to myself well I felt sorry that he was erm what 's the word I want ? |
| 6 | It was not difficult to arrange because I went to stay with the same farmer with whom I had spent the whole of the previous year as an evacuee . |
| 7 | Well I I went out to them , and because I heard banging , and I looked out the window and they were hacking at my fence , and I went out bu and was playing war with them when Jim crossed the road with one of them following behind and away down the street , and I thought oh ! |
| 8 | Because I said stand up quietly . |
| 9 | the only one who worked full time , they came on Christmas Eve with reluctant , because I said look I 'm sorry but I have to work Christmas Eve lunch time , and they said right we 'll be there at five past one , and I finish at one , there were there at five past one , they finally left two days after Christmas because I said I 'm sorry I have to go back to work today . |
| 10 | But I can , I took his , no do n't worry , I took his telephone number because I said look , I do I 'm , I 'm not sure if anything might come up |
| 11 | I knew the Mozarteum Orchestra because I had played with them as a pianist , and I was well known in Salzburg , so we had no difficulty in selling tickets . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 14 | " 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 . " |
| 15 | It was in light of this experience of priests who were barely capable of understanding the Latin Vulgate and Mass , or who juggled with a text and expounded it in such a way as to obscure its original meaning , that Tyndale now decided to translate the New Testament into English ‘ because I had perceived by experience , how that it was impossible to establish the lay-people in any truth , except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother-tongue ’ . |
| 16 | I had told myself that heat was cleansing , because I had grown fearful of water . |
| 17 | I was turned down by all the universities on my UCCA application form , because I had received a bad report from my headmaster at Downside School who said I took drugs , which was true , but was also an admission made to him in confidence . |
| 18 | Despite not strictly working shifts , I recorded abnormal temperatures , probably — though it is not proven — because I had missed so much sleep . |
| 19 | But my mother was very keen and she was very disappointed because I had missed out . |
| 20 | And that 's one of the reasons I ended up I ended up in in Brothers because I had missed the chance to go into work with the Bank you see . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way , because I had misunderstood him a bit . |
| 23 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 24 | Erm , well my particular case was cut and dry , no medical miracles , as I say , could help me because I had lost a baby at six months during the labour and erm in order to save to my life I had a hysterectomy so there was no possibility of I V F , etcetera , etcetera . |
| 25 | ‘ Because I had invited him to my house . |
| 26 | However , one day I my colleague attacked me for imposing my ‘ middle-class values ’ on the children because I had emphasized polite speech and decent manners in my sessions . |
| 27 | Because I had insisted on taking the photographs myself I had not finished the book by its deadline . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Because I had taught him about it you know , from coming from . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . ’ |