Example sentences of "because i [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I sold it to him first . |
| 2 | Only Jancey saw the Smith & Wesson in the kitchen , because I stuffed it inside my jacket before the big boys came in . |
| 3 | It included forty cigarettes , a white sliced loaf , tea bags , two lamb chops , half a pound of liver , pork for Sunday dinner , two tins of peas , two pints of sterilised milk — " Not because I like it , but because it lasts longer , " he said . |
| 4 | JACKEY : Because I like it . |
| 5 | I brought the wine because I like it , which is no way to treat a lady , but I also liked the thought of sitting down with her , talking about interesting things , in the way you do with wine . |
| 6 | I 'm playing this one because I like it . |
| 7 | That hat has been to Buckingham Palace twice because I lent it to a friend who was invited to a later garden party . |
| 8 | I admit that I prefer the longer film , but that may be because I saw it first . |
| 9 | ‘ The difficulty was that the chief executive was very pro-commodity trading , which I rapidly became averse to because I saw it as just another form of playing the casinos . |
| 10 | I do because I saw it . |
| 11 | yeah because I saw it advertised in Woolworth 's yesterday I did |
| 12 | ‘ And these stones — so unexpected in this magnificent country — because I confess it is not for the pleasures of civilisation that I came to this district but for the informing breadth and spectacles of Nature — reminded me of somewhere I knew not where and that was my over-selfish study which all but ended in a brute collision with yourselves ! ’ |
| 13 | caravan because I remember it |
| 14 | But you must believe that I kept you here not because I wanted to , but because I believed it my duty to those whom God ( or , well , the Company anyway ) has placed in my care . |
| 15 | Well because I put it in that book . |
| 16 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 17 | But I do because I combine it with taking her [ the child ] for a walk . |
| 18 | because I said it was erm Simon 's , and then I did n't know really where they lived and erm , I know they moved out , out of next door to Lesley 's , and in the end it never got done that , that more to the point but erm I ca n't do that up until I 've done that can I ? |
| 19 | Ah , yes , I think it was , because I had it after you , did n't I , John ? |
| 20 | Because I had it all when we had breakfast . |
| 21 | I think it 'll be a good one because I got it from one of our clients . |
| 22 | I 'm going to be deleting an application called Legato ; not because I hate it , but just as a demonstration . |
| 23 | But at the moment , I 'm quite satisfied with my squad because I know it 's a good one . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Because I know it 's goin' to be a son … |
| 25 | I wo n't do it — because I know it 's wrong . ’ |
| 26 | That is because I know it will make things easier for you later on . |
| 27 | Because I know it , and I think you do too . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I like a look of agony , because I know it 's true ’ wrote Emily Dickinson . |
| 29 | ‘ But you see , if I do n't ask you the name on the cheque , it 's because I know it already … ’ |
| 30 | Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson |