Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [vb base] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And another thing — your sailors all seem very small to me , because I 've been used to looking up at people twenty metres tall . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Because I 've been worried sick ever since I saw your car . ’ |
| 4 | I 've not watched any videos or television all day because I 've been hard at work . |
| 5 | ‘ But is it that you do n't love me , my dear wife , because I 've been ill ? |
| 6 | Do you want me to have a go at doing that Simon ? because I have been difficult about it , if that helps you . |
| 7 | However , sometimes a dessert is called for — as at a dinner party — or just wanted — because you 've been good for so long ! |
| 8 | that 's a lie because you do n't wan na improve your lot because you 've been happy under the Confucius |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Because you 've been crackers about Christopher , in love with him from the cradle . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Erm , parent involvement , there is no mention in this report about parent involvement , and I think this is absolutely essential that the , it 's often the families who are poor parenting , because they 've been poor parent people , and you have succession , and we 've gone somewhere along the line , we 've got to go down that road . |
| 19 | Because they 've been good boys we 've helped them extend their landholdings and they lease it back to their own peasants at exorbitant rates — that 's why their own people call them pirates . " |
| 20 | No wait , there 's three men , there 's three men and they 're all getting sent to prison but because they 've been good they 're all gon na get a wish . |
| 21 | Maybe their system 's organized differently , but fundamentally the problems are the same and that 's given our people the confidence that they needed because they 've been able to see that people everywhere , it 's not just them isolated in , in , you know , Tory Britain , who are facing these particular difficulties , but issues of privatization for example as the same in France and actually about to get much worse , er but , and , and I think that helped erm our colleagues from France who 've also got a perspective on their struggles and their battles we 've been able to support one another with information about companies working , multi-national companies working on both sides of the Channel . |
| 22 | We would rather be rich than poor , which even our politicians understand because they prefer being rich too . |
| 23 | Th they 're being frightened because they enjoy being frightened and there 's a kind of perverse wish fulfilment in that . |
| 24 | Each in his time has painted over the inheritance of his predecessor , but the Oak Leaf camps have remained because they have been necessary for each new Czar 's survival . |
| 25 | The Italians have mae it work for them because they have been able to inject a comfortable , relaxed mood . |
| 26 | Auditors Price Waterhouse have qualified their audit report to members of Harland Simon ( design , manufacture and installation of control , automation and image processing systems ) because they have been unable to obtain direct confirmation of the beneficial ownership of a shareholding in Perfect Information Ltd . |
| 27 | They admit they are baffled by their findings because they have been unable to discover a common link to all the tragic cases . |
| 28 | Many keen to set up in business will also be hampered because they have been unable to build up capital . |
| 29 | The applicants wish to know the nature and extent of their receivership powers as a matter of practical importance and pressing nature , because they have been unable so far to obtain any assistance from the directors of I.B.C. as to the location of books and records of I.B.C. , or as to the provision of information about its assets . |