Example sentences of "because i [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I 'm , I admit er that that was one I just bolted simply because I was taking it the wrong way round , I thought we had identified what was the priority , life insurance , P H I and pensions and was summarizing it whereas I should 've realized we 're doing that page towards the priority |
| 2 | Watching the editing of the Brahms Second Symphony I must say I forgot I was watching a film , simply because I was fascinated to hear new colours which the eye was suggesting by the way you were using shots of the violas and the trombones at some of the quietest moments in the work . |
| 3 | I WENT to see Joe Johnson this week because I was fascinated to find out how he was rebuilding his career after the heart attack last year which threatened to stop him playing . |
| 4 | Still , I said to myself , so she has got a husband after all , because I was beginning to put two and two together and ask myself a few questions . |
| 5 | I looked forward to reaching my cell , because I was beginning to feel miserable and wanted to be alone and warm . |
| 6 | There were lesbian nuances I did n't much like ; perhaps because I was beginning to take against the facet in Conchis 's polyhedral character that obviously enjoyed ‘ curious ’ objects and literature . |
| 7 | No , I , I wo n't tell you how I was taught to do it because I was taught to do it very differently . |
| 8 | And er one or two got caught up occasionally now and then so we did erm have to go underneath because I was earning too much to get a free one it cost me seven pounds ten and I 've got the receipt for it . |
| 9 | I 'm sure I saw it over there because I was tidying up |
| 10 | I 've always owned apartments because I was born in a tenement in Glasgow and I like flat-life. , If he has one regret it is that government never saw fit to offer him another major job as challenging as his chairmanship of British Steel when he gave it up in 1976 . |
| 11 | I was doing what I was doing because I was born into it . |
| 12 | O'Leary explains : ‘ I am qualified for Ireland through my dad 's nationality , but I 've always considered myself an Essex man because I was born in Harold Wood . ’ |
| 13 | When I was in the USA , I had no roots at all because I was born in Europe . |
| 14 | Because I was born twin to Grainne … because the Royal Line must never divide … |
| 15 | Er but because I was born in the country , lazy I was . |
| 16 | I think I 'm English because I was born here . ’ |
| 17 | The other aspect Mr Mayor that I , that I want t to dwell on is the thing about housing benefits themselves , there 's been a lot of talk by a lot of speakers about benefits and er means testing in the years gone by and well okay I 'll give councillor a few more years than I have , I do n't remember the forties because I was born towards the end of them but , y'know , maybe that happened . |
| 18 | I felt ashamed because I was enjoying this sensation . |
| 19 | I suppose , too , that I felt guilty : if I had behaved like a properly loving wife and refused to let Flora monopolize Richard so blatantly — which I only did because I was enjoying Adam 's company — the situation might not have arisen . |
| 20 | Not that day or on any of the countless occasions I resolved to , because I was sharing my house with Francis again . |
| 21 | Well I 'm freer to do , I mean I , I got , I wanted to be free because I was getting tied up with that and I was getting tied up with persons , but not agreeing everything |
| 22 | That same agent blew up the room I had been in because I was getting too close . |
| 23 | I du n no I I got the gist of what Lynne was saying and I was concentrating but maybe I was concentrating too hard because I was getting most of it right was n't I but it |
| 24 | It 's probably because I was getting looked at by erm a ginger haired boy |
| 25 | Well I would say that erm , in my time , er when they became unemployed , most of them could pick up a job pretty easy because I was speaking about from nineteen forty eight onwards , and of course er it was shortly after a war , there was plenty of work , and therefore most of them could pick up a job in a reasonable space of time and they would n't be idle too long . |
| 26 | If Ministers were tempted to give undertakings to the Committee , on which unfortunately I could not serve because I was dealing with other orders such as the Scottish seed potato order at the time , what has happened is a bit below the belt . |
| 27 | Early Whitesnake was good , because I was pushing the limits of a fairly simple kind of music — probably being a bit over-busy through trying to be not just a standard rock bass player . |
| 28 | Erm I was n't quite certain of the wife 's P H I there was something about twelve months and she was getting a hundred and thirty pounds er I , I lost it because I was looking at the clock at the same , I must confess but erm |
| 29 | Then the other argument as I can see is that they 've led me to believe , I don I know you said that it 's automatic twelve month ban , but we just accepted that because I was led to believe that my job was safe . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's because I was trying to tell myself something , and I was n't taking any notice . |