Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was braced to cope with him because I had been ambitious for Jean-Claude , vauntingly so . |
| 2 | I felt good inside , too , because I had been able , in some tangible way , to thank Ron , my girlfriend and my parents for all their help and support . |
| 3 | And another thing — your sailors all seem very small to me , because I 've been used to looking up at people twenty metres tall . ’ |
| 4 | If I 'm down or arguing with one of the family , because I 've been ratty through not being well , then Pat the physiotherapist , I have a talk with her and she talks to me and it helps me to talk to somebody else . |
| 5 | ‘ Because I 've been worried sick ever since I saw your car . ’ |
| 6 | I 've not watched any videos or television all day because I 've been hard at work . |
| 7 | ‘ But is it that you do n't love me , my dear wife , because I 've been ill ? |
| 8 | Do you want me to have a go at doing that Simon ? because I have been difficult about it , if that helps you . |
| 9 | However , sometimes a dessert is called for — as at a dinner party — or just wanted — because you 've been good for so long ! |
| 10 | that 's a lie because you do n't wan na improve your lot because you 've been happy under the Confucius |
| 11 | And if you had to do if you had , say , three sheets of pink paper because you 've been naughty and done something wrong , you had to fill three sides of pink foolscap paper with writing . |
| 12 | Because you 've been crackers about Christopher , in love with him from the cradle . |
| 13 | Most of the rules are applied strictly and it is hard to imagine any outcome more frustrating than for your legitimate claim to fail simply because you have been guilty of delay . |
| 14 | Raging at Felipe had just been because she 'd been shocked and scared for him when she 'd seen him take off into the air . |
| 15 | After all , just because she had been unaccompanied at Emma 's house , just because she had accepted his invitation to dinner , did not mean that she was unattached . |
| 16 | Because she had been aggressive again , she pulled out her wallet and showed him photographs of the children . |
| 17 | Because she had been fond of Simon in a sisterly way — as a much older sister — she had always taken it for granted that the affection he had shown her in return had been brotherly , with maybe a spot of heroine worship thrown in . |
| 18 | Because she had been reluctant to meet up with Celeste again , she had sat in a public stand a long way away from the private seating , the grid , the pits , but now she raced back towards them . |
| 19 | The week had gone quickly because she had been busy . |
| 20 | They had had a farewell drink together , two women who had worked well together without ever abandoning their professional personae , Maria because she had been afraid of inadvertently giving away something that might alert Cavell 's suspicions where Luke was concerned . |
| 21 | She had fought against him , tried to keep him out of her life , but was n't that because she had been afraid ? |
| 22 | She 's made me angry with her anger , and then turned it around so that I 'm eaten up with guilt because she 's been ill and I have n't noticed , and now she 's taking the blame on herself and making me feel worse than ever . |
| 23 | Relieved because she has been afraid that somehow it would have disappeared , she pulls out her key , but the driver 's door is unlocked . |
| 24 | She said : ‘ I 'm very sad because we 'd been married 20 years . |
| 25 | I 'm only in this business for my own enjoyment , yet because we 've been successful and made a lot of money people automatically assume I 'm a raving Conservative and resent.my criticisms . |
| 26 | I said , it hurt the captain because we 've been used to you know , ferrying everybody about , and I said , do n't d say that people are unkind because they they 're not taking you and carrying you about . |
| 27 | I feel very uncomfortable therefore , to sit in a room full of members , sitting here proposing to add five percent to the limit for members allowances , simply because we 've been unable to control our own behaviour , and to come in within that , I think it 's a very poor example , and it 's an example that I 'm not prepared to set . |
| 28 | If you 've snapped up one our handsome binders you 'll find , towards the end of the year , that because we 've been able to pack so many pages into Britain 's newest , brightest gardening magazine , things are getting , well , rather full . |
| 29 | That is , in addition to the tendency to feel tired because we have been awake a long time , there is some rhythmic change that decreases our fatigue at some times and increases it at others . |
| 30 | If our propaganda has failed , it has failed because we have been unable to arouse the British people in such a way as to make them feel that the cause of Republican Spain was their cause in such a measure that they would take every risk , even the risk of war to make the Republican cause in Spain prevail . |