Example sentences of "because i want " in BNC.
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| 1 | I drink because I want to suffer more and more . ’ |
| 2 | It 's a way of saying to yourself , if he really loves me , he 'll stop doing that because I want him to ’ , Roz says . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm only doing it because I want your mother to have a quiet lie-in , so you can turn that thing off for a start . ’ |
| 4 | I 've come to you because I want you to tell me everything you can about Mr Hatton with particular reference to anything you may know about the source of his income . ’ |
| 5 | Sometimes I wear things that do n't conform because I want to say to people : I do n't want to be the way you want me to be . |
| 6 | ‘ Because I want us to be friends . |
| 7 | Another passer-by , a 21-year-old salesman , said : ‘ I only voted because I want to get married and I do n't want any problems . ’ |
| 8 | So I hope you 'll understand that if I do n't include my subscription with this letter it 's not because I do n't support you and if I shop in Smiths it 's not because I want them to sell pornography . |
| 9 | Anyway , I will risk it , not because I want to give the fish a chance ; I do not believe in giving any fish a chance , I go to the races when I want to gamble . |
| 10 | It 's not because I want applause , or paragraphs in the paper , or my name in coloured lights in Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 11 | Please print this letter because I want people to know that horses are not something that you can forget . |
| 12 | ‘ they 're going to give it to me for being such a nice chap and because I want this guitar so badly . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Because I want to screw her , ’ said Randy unrepentantly . |
| 14 | ‘ Because I want to know . ’ |
| 15 | I shall vote Tory because I want |
| 16 | I voted Tory not because I want to earn lots of money ( I am on the dole ) , but precisely because I object to the facile cynicism as witnessed above . |
| 17 | It is precisely because I want to see political changes of this kind that I support Home Rule for Scotland . |
| 18 | I may be tempted to offer the spontaneous inclination itself as reason for my choice , and say I shall do it because I want to do it ; but in examining myself objectively I see that a fact about my wants and likes would be directly relevant only to a causal explanation of my actions , and could be used in deciding what to do only as I use any other objective facts . |
| 19 | ‘ I will go to South Africa at some stage because I want to arrange a foundation or some sort of memorial to Julie and Elizabeth . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I just hope surgery is put off until after Christmas because I want to spend the holiday with my children . |
| 21 | The reason I am suggesting that the church of Christ lives in this subcultural world is because I want to insist that God 's spiritual family , as well as the human family , has also been radically altered by modernity . |
| 22 | ‘ You do the full three months , Nicholas Breakspear , because I want the commission on this one , do you hear me ? ’ |
| 23 | Look here Alan , I 'm ringing you because I want your personal assurance that the local nick will have people on hand tomorrow in the Market Square when the meet assembles . ‘ |
| 24 | The situation has thrown me a bit and I shall be talking to him again because I want to know exactly what 's going on . |
| 25 | Watson , for whom The Mirror helped raise £150,000 in a special appeal night in July , is being cared for in an East London neurological rehabilitation unit , added : ‘ I am here until next March — it 's driving me crazy because I want to make a comeback . |
| 26 | And the reason I 'm telling this to you , is because I want you to live . ’ |
| 27 | It 's very tempting to go into the desert with a bag of mushrooms right now , but I 'm not going to because I want the experience to be real . ’ |
| 28 | I have got a tent here , as it happens , because I want to work on Eilean na Roin — that 's Seal Island , where the broch is — and the tides are awkward , so I need a base there . |
| 29 | I am clear in my mind about racing — I race because I want to race and not to please the Spanish people . |
| 30 | ‘ Mother , ’ she said , ‘ I left because I want to be a musician , I do n't want to be someone 's mother and someone 's wife . |