Example sentences of "[adv] because i think [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , lad , it 's only because I think you 're worth somebody better than her . |
| 4 | I 'd like you to write things down because I think you 're gon na remember them , he says , hopefully ! |
| 5 | There is the question of professional indemnity which I shall return to shortly because I think it might be helpful if the minister were to say something about that . |
| 6 | Not because I thought I should have been picked there were at least 15 guys playing better than me but because I had n't performed as I felt I should have done . |
| 7 | Erm quite rightly the director said that predictions in terms of residential admissions and nursing home admissions would be easier to make this year than last year and I accept it was very difficult then year but I 'd just like to know how close the actual outcome is likely to be to the original prediction , really for information , not because I think you could have got it any closer than did but it would be just interesting to know what the s the gap was . |
| 8 | I have quoted this passage in full , not because I think it is particularly inspired or even well-written , but because it is the nearest attempt I have come across to suggest some of the subjective , hidden meanings that might well make up a performer 's luggage when he expresses himself on stage . |
| 9 | I much prefer to find my own swims , not because I think I can find better swims than anyone else , but because I get a great deal of satisfaction from being able to study a piece of water , select a swim as a likely chub haunt , and then find that I am right . |
| 10 | Not because I think I want to look young but just because I like to go to bed early . ’ |
| 11 | I think that 's had it , I think the er man from customs Simon was saving that , the man took it all apart and I think that 's why it probably got broken so quickly because I think they messed with it . |
| 12 | ‘ We became friends very quickly because I think we think in the same way . |
| 13 | ‘ When we were putting together our demos , ’ says singer Mike , ‘ we heard ‘ The Only One I Know ’ by The Charlatans and I was really pissed off because I thought it was exactly what we were trying to do … and they 'd got there first . ’ |
| 14 | it was only ten to eight and I got up because I thought I was getting late for work and I 'd better get moving . |
| 15 | ‘ I stopped when a police car pulled up because I thought it was stupid to go on running . ’ |
| 16 | So I would n't like to see any property developers take it , the club on because I think they 'd be purely after the ground , I , I 'd feel much better if the consortium with Ray at the head took it over because they are genuinely interested in Walsall and the Walsall people . |
| 17 | I 'm particularly the textiles I suppose I 'm I 'm quite keen on keenest on because I think we 're far ahead of everybody else with textiles . |
| 18 | The only grass that 's well cut is where people cut it themselves outside their own house but , in particular , erm , th I would like to see the supervision of the contract and that we do n't cough up the money unless the job 's done properly because I think we 're paying for a job that 's not being either done at all , or when it is being done it 's not being done well . |
| 19 | I crossed it out because I thought it was gon na say cos I thought it said , survey managers are instructed to work at all times |
| 20 | one of the things I 'm thinking of in the longer term and I I bounced this of er was that if groups moved to Stansted could not be moved across to groups to sort this problem out because I think she 's getting bored in what she 's doing |
| 21 | A dress I , I sent off for two sizes , I 'm glad I did now because I thought you know that the small one would be okay for them , but it 's not , there 's the hat |
| 22 | I take a bus but er I 'm learning how to drive now because I think it gives you a lot of independence . |
| 23 | I want to cry very much now because I think I 'm admitting to myself that , no matter what happens , lift is never going to be the same again . |
| 24 | I 'd love to do it , really because I think you know er there 's a lot of evidence pro and there 's a lot of evidence against , and I like |
| 25 | There was a slight stubbornness on part of the management , simply because I think they were not , at that stage , inured to the shop steward 's effective way of dealing with things . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose it could be the fact that I backed Double Dutch at 10-1 as a saver simply because I think she 's good value and certainly not because there 's anything wrong with my horse , ’ Ramsden said . |
| 27 | I disapprove of diets so strongly because I think it 's wrong suddenly to deprive your body of certain foods . |
| 28 | And yet when is it , when were you working there because I thought you said you 'd finished . |
| 29 | Right let me stop you there because I think you 've got maybe the wrong end of the stick . |
| 30 | The the Council looking at the whole process of how it spends it money what it does , I think the theatre the start of this evening we were looking quite close about what we do and how we do it what we do n't do and what we should do and I think from what 's been said this evening will be re look closely the questions you 've raised things that you 've raised we 'll report it back to you in the hope of this meeting that we 'll actually moved forward because I think it 's in everybody interest everybody 's interest if the playhouse closes . |