Example sentences of "[adv] because i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps because I said that even if I returned I should now be shot for desertion . |
| 2 | But erm perhaps because I had a good , I do n't know . |
| 3 | I had long intended making this proposition to the Secretary of State , but I was urged sooner to it perhaps because I felt that I was reduced in circumstances and thrown from my position in Society , and I hoped by a grand effort to establish a permanent claim on the consideration of Her Majesty 's Government . |
| 4 | Perhaps because I knew from an early age that he was not long for this world , I tried to make his time in it as pleasant as possible , and thus ended up treating him far better than most young boys treat their younger brothers . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps because I 've always thought it might be nice to have a honeymoon in Venice . ’ |
| 6 | Now , perhaps because I 've had a baby , friends talk to me about sex , or about their relationships with their boyfriends , where before they would n't . |
| 7 | Or perhaps because I 've lulled her with bedtime stories embroidering our favourite theme : once upon a time there was a girl named Gittel , who had a curse called down upon her … |
| 8 | ‘ I make no judgments on man or woman , perhaps because I make no judgments on myself — or my wife I 've managed to preserve a friendship between husband and wife living thousands of miles apart , and that 's nae a bad achievement . ’ |
| 9 | There was another woman who was a real fighter and she came in with me as quietly as can be — perhaps because I looked so young . |
| 10 | I set off again , maintaining for some reason — perhaps because I expected further farm creatures to wander across my path — my slow speed of before . |
| 11 | Perhaps because I do n't touch-type I did have a problem . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps because I do n't wish to be shot . ’ |
| 13 | The Anniversary Organising Committee had felt that a clock should be commissioned to replace the one which had been stolen , and perhaps because I have for some years specialised in the reproduction of historic clocks , my name was one of those considered . |
| 14 | ‘ People call me Moma Parsheen , perhaps because I have no children except for … ’ she stroked the cat creature . |
| 15 | Perhaps because I have proven I am no mere parasite , and have helped her knock out one dazzling 1,500-word column for Outsider in record time . |
| 16 | Mine do n't eat tadpoles , perhaps because I feed them regularly . |
| 17 | Once past the Oval , they got even scarcer and following became more difficult , basically because I did n't know where I was . |
| 18 | But the bank wo n't crash merely because I 've bought you a cup of tea and a few Carnival cakes . ’ |
| 19 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 20 | I am , I am told , a post-feminist merely because I prefer a constructive approach to the achievement of equality rather than one that is essentially negative . |
| 21 | I do n't think I am taking this line merely because I have been corrupted by a philosophical training and can not come off the fence . |
| 22 | I suspect that is merely because I have always been able to anticipate when a fox is likely to be present as the result of scent , footprints and tell-tale evidence around the burrow mouth . |
| 23 | Merely because I reminded him how unlikely he was to catch an heiress . ’ |
| 24 | We did n't live together because I felt it would be years before I 'd be reasonable company for another human being . |
| 25 | I keep this all the ti got some you see I 'm trying to group the flowers together because I think they give more effect that way . |
| 26 | Personally , I prefer to speak about learning together because I think it 's more friendly use , er , user friendly I think I understand it better and it reminds me that it 's connected with disciple-ship . |
| 27 | ‘ Only because I realised I never did get around to telling you that you are , without question , the most insolent , wilful , egocentric human being I 've ever met ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It 's only because I know you so well , Peachcake . |
| 29 | It 's only because I know Rome quite well that they 've asked me — Athens I do n't know at all . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ No — but only because I 've got a long drive ahead of me . |