Example sentences of "[pers pn] be because " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I am because we dominated in so many respects — especially at the line-out — and had enough ball to have won . |
| 2 | He 's more likely to die than I am because he loves life , his mother tells me so . |
| 3 | ‘ He thinks the ministry is an affectation and a waste of time , and on the other hand he thinks priests should be very good , and he does n't think I am because he 's known me for so long , so he 's annoyed with me . |
| 4 | He tells me to stay where I am because he 's coming to fetch me . |
| 5 | ‘ Actually , I 'm just happy to be where I am because after that early problem we only had 14 minutes of running , so it was a short session . ’ |
| 6 | I am because I 'm being kept in here and I might wan na stay |
| 7 | Because I 'm because John Gummer 's responsibilities extend a long way into things like housing and stuff as well do n't they ? |
| 8 | He makes more mess in his bedroom than she does and his is because , not only is it all papers and books and toys and everything else , it 's all his clothes as well . |
| 9 | She was very young , 18 or 19 , and relatively immature although much more worldly wise than I was because she had lived a much more international sort of life , and having been around the music scene a lot more than I had , she was streetwise at her age to a greater degree than I — there was no question of that . |
| 10 | ‘ When I told Martin that I was 10 weeks ' pregnant with my second child , he enjoyed telling people how clever I was because I 'd arranged it between the interims and the final results ! ’ |
| 11 | He had known where I was because he had received all my letters , although I had n't received any of his . |
| 12 | Well , I said , I 'll give it a chance , I said , and if it does n't pay , Cos he was better off than I was because he had the two shops . |
| 13 | I lied to you about who I was because — ’ |
| 14 | I was because I was all ready for Steven actually . |
| 15 | But erm I was er somewhat put off altogether by comments I heard from people who had been in much closer contact than I was because I , I saw him very little of him really . |
| 16 | And you ca n't get too comfortable with where you are because you could be a nobody tomorrow . |
| 17 | But it does not matter Elsie how far away you are because I will always love you . |
| 18 | ‘ But if you do n't know , how can you be sure when you 're really in love and when you just think you are because the person you 're with is so attractive ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ If other men are attracted to me , then they 're attracted to more of me than you are because they see more of me . |
| 20 | so i , car radios and things like that the reception will be constant wherever you are because you do n't get any noise . |
| 21 | I know how good you were because I was at that stage in maths where I felt rudderless and becalmed , drifting helplessly as it were , as my peer group — the rest of the fleet — sailed serenely on towards the horizon . |
| 22 | Thus , you can not just take any necessary action depending on the error and return to where you were because BBCBASIC(Z80) no longer knows where you were . |
| 23 | Well she 's because like we 'd just like |
| 24 | I wo n't tell you who she is because the name is a household word . |
| 25 | The reason why it 's before you is because of the local plan |
| 26 | He also points out the song 's crucial omission , astonishing in a work of the protest movement : Dylan never says that Zantzinger is white and Hattie Carroll black , and forces the listener to assume that she was because of everything we are told about her : her name , that she had ten children , her position as a maid who ‘ did n't even talk to the people at the table ’ and , more tendentiously , because of what was done to her and the mild punishment meted out to her murderer who ‘ at 24 years/Owns a tobacco farm of 600 acres ’ . |
| 27 | Kate tried to ignore his admiring glance , but she could n't help blushing a little , which showed how much off balance she was because normally she was so used to this sort of conversation that she could , as it were , verbally handle it with one hand tied behind her back . |
| 28 | ‘ I let you think she was because I wanted to make you jealous . |
| 29 | The funny thing was I was asking Irene who she was because I could n't remember seeing her and then , later on , she came up to me as though she 'd known me , you know ? |
| 30 | It took me quite a while to convince him that my being with you was because I was trying to persuade you to — ’ |