Example sentences of "because [pers pn] wanted [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was a bit late with my insulin injection tonight , and then I gulped my meal because I wanted to lie down … ’ |
| 2 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 3 | I was banned , however , not because I am a convicted criminal , I think — like the unfortunate Simon Hayward — but because I wanted to wear a false nose out of consideration for the feeling of my associate , Mark Chapman , who , as I explained last week , has just had an inch and a half lopped off his . |
| 4 | And perhaps I should have been , because I wanted to do the other as well . ’ |
| 5 | For the first time in all my life I had done right because I wanted to do right . |
| 6 | Not quite a woman — because I wanted to do things with Gittel that only a man was supposed to want to do ; not quite a man — because I wanted Gittel to do the same things back to me . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ In the past , I got too hyped up because I wanted to do well . |
| 8 | I volunteered my statement because I wanted to volunteer , not because of your pathetic bluff . |
| 9 | I married Edward because I wanted to live with him , and I still do . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't agree to see you last week because I wanted to give you any information . |
| 11 | I sold my hair because I wanted to give you a present . |
| 12 | ‘ I only came back because I wanted to take another look at you , to see if you 'd really changed . |
| 13 | So the reason I asked that question is because I wanted to see if you were already thinking like an archaeologist . |
| 14 | Not because I wanted to go back to my childhood but because I had a deep , healthy interest in finding out a bit more about what was happening while I was growing up . |
| 15 | ‘ Initially I planned this simply because I wanted to go from coast to coast , but then I thought I might as well try and raise some money for the hospice which is on my beat . |
| 16 | I hoped he would n't let go because I wanted to kill him . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know why I started using a palette knife ; maybe because I wanted to mould the paint to show the other side of the mountain . |
| 18 | I used to weep buckets because I wanted to touch him again . ’ |
| 19 | We had split up because I wanted to spend more time with my mates . ’ |
| 20 | And sad , because I wanted to join him . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've concreted up the mouth of the cave and the gap in the rocks which it burst through because I wanted to hold it there for a bit longer . |
| 22 | I joined the scheme because I wanted to extend the criminal scope of my practice and this was one way of getting more contact with the courts and with prospective clients . |
| 23 | I brought you up here because I wanted to show you the house I 've bought in Oxfordshire . |
| 24 | Mansell , due to race for the Newman-Haas Indy Car team in America next season , said : ‘ I ran across the track to get away because I wanted to avoid a big fight . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ I ran away across the track because I wanted to avoid getting into any problems . |
| 26 | I was anxious to settle the terms of the contract with M. Chaillot and , because I wanted to avoid being cornered by him in Passy , I suggested to Jean-Claude that he make an appointment for me to see him at the radio , mid-morning , on a date when I had a luncheon appointment . |
| 27 | That 's why I did n't want to go to the edge because I wanted to try and do my own . |
| 28 | I never said much because I wanted to keep my options open . |
| 29 | I stopped at a pub I used rarely near the BBC and had a ploughman 's and a couple of orange juices , no alcohol , partly because I wanted to keep a clear head and partly to fit in with the cab-driver persona . |
| 30 | But he countered : ‘ The supporter was saying terrible things to me and I went back up the tunnel because I wanted to have a good look at the face of the person who was abusing me . |