Example sentences of "[vb pp] because i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Robins , clutching the ball after his first senior hat-trick , said : ‘ Comparisons are bound to be made because I 've just scored three on TV and United are struggling .
2 I was emotionally prepared because I had just had what seemed to me then an incredibly traumatic experience .
3 ‘ I know precisely how much petrol I 've got because I know precisely how much I 've put in and precisely how many miles I 've been .
4 Can you spell out how our share of the cost has increased because our share of the work has increased because I thought presumably the bill was still divided proportionately between the countries .
5 On an outing to the obscure Gate Crag in Eskdale we picked a route called Bosigran — this had to be climbed because I 'd just returned from my first climbing trip to Cornwall .
6 I was a bit lost because I had never been anywhere before , but I was met in a pony and trap and taken to my new employer .
7 And in the end the child 's internalising , I 'm loved because I work hard , and this is what I have to do .
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