Example sentences of "[adj] because i [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I , I tell you , really , you 'd , you 'd and something different because I mean like you go to the Headway and it 's just the same |
| 2 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 3 | I mean interesting because I 've never actually done the job that you 're doing . |
| 4 | Erm , I think that this erm , part of the agenda is most interesting because I think it 's other departments which also report back to the policy resources , which really , we as a erm , council do n't get much chance to see it 's doing . |
| 5 | Which is interesting because I think I saw her on Wednesday night . |
| 6 | Monday afternoons I have to keep free because I like to take Mrs James — the domestic help — home and Friday afternoon Lucy has a dancing lesson . |
| 7 | And he would be the right one to b be on this because I mean he 's so intelligent , he would but he wo n't even I think he must of turned that tape on yesterday . |
| 8 | I mention all this because I know that many women are horrified at the idea of their baby being delivered in this way . |
| 9 | I only did this because I know the outlet where I purchased the fish from has its own excellent quarantine facilities and I have used this shop for over 10 years and have never had any trouble with fish purchased from there . |
| 10 | I tell you this because I know that I can not expect trust if I do not give it . |
| 11 | I know this because I have been glancing at a magazine called Rubiks printed in English and published in Budapest . |
| 12 | I say this because I have the feeling that you no longer wish to join your cousins in Wisconsin . |
| 13 | Erm why I am saying this because I have erm I know young people work with Guatemalans . |
| 14 | ‘ I know this because I have been here several times when I was younger . |
| 15 | And although the sub-text of my increasing thinness ( which I chose to ignore ) read , ‘ I am doing this because I feel so helpless that not even my own body belongs to me ’ , the apparent text read to me , and increasingly to others , ‘ My body is my own and I can do what I like with it . ’ |
| 16 | When our member then appealed to the Regional Secretary and said , well , I think I do wan na appeal and go further than this because I feel I 'm right , what letter did we then get in reply . |
| 17 | ‘ I would n't buy this because I think striped shirts have been overplayed — and I prefer black jeans . ’ |
| 18 | I am doing this because I think I ought to and am in the position to do so . ’ |
| 19 | One of the virtues of parental investment er theory I would say is that er it 's particularly sensitive to female interests in , in in sexuality and nobody who knows me or has read er my works would , could possibly suspect me here of fashionable feminist prejudices er so I do n't say this because I think this is what people like to hear , but because I happen to think it 's true , I 'm afraid I 'm one of these old-fashioned and you may think stupid people who believe that you should er say things cos you think they 're true , not because you think er it 's what you think want w want to hear or if you say it , you 'll be accused of sexual harassment by a lecturer as I was last year . |
| 20 | I myself , for example , tend to be an old-fashioned Coleridge and psychologistic critic , you know , I look for motives in Shakespearean characters , in ways which Elsie Knights told us we should n't do , and I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 21 | And I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 22 | I 'm rather advertising this because I think it 's important to understand that although , and I 'm sure you know , that there 's this constant war really between , it was n't of course a physical war , but certainly tension , and difficulty between the university and the city . |
| 23 | ‘ I am not worried by this because I do believe war has been glamorised beyond all belief . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm doing all this because I believe in Labour and I love talking to people on doorsteps , finding out what matters to them . |
| 25 | I say this because I believe that those constitutional issues have to be decided once and for all at this year 's Party Conference . |
| 26 | Ian , I wish we could go on talking endlessly about this because I find the subject quite fascinating and we have n't really talked about the details of your research . |
| 27 | I know but they 'll think no but the bit that this happens , you know like they do get high because I mean take drugs |
| 28 | I am calm because I feel strong . |
| 29 | I have felt embarrassed because I 've had to meet people afterwards who I who I who I care what they think about me and I 've put in the biggest load of old rubbish . |
| 30 | It 's been three days now I 'm not sure though I could be wrong because I have n't slept very well I have nightmares of a man and they think it 's me but it is n't , is it ? |