Example sentences of "because we 'd [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Was it a good decision to airfreight an order because we 'd messed things up on the plant ? ’
2 Once Bernie and I dragged right across town to a pub in the back of beyond in North London because we 'd seen a gig advertised there featuring a band called The Teenage Rebels .
3 I knew he had something more than Liza and me because we 'd seen him when he had his bath and when he lay in bed in his short shirt .
4 Well only because we 'd seen it in the shop
5 I was really looking forward to the 1961 Birkdale Open , and not just because we 'd gone so close the year before , though I was dying to get another chance to go one better this time .
6 because we 'd gone out , I think it was the christmas shopping we were doing on our own .
7 Well We came in one morning , the electrician and I , about five instead of seven , because we 'd done and er we used to nip in and kip down with the horses for ten minutes which was forbidden , to sleep in the colliery .
8 Oh and we 'd love to do swimming , erm , because we 'd done as a surprise for Carla for Christmas cos I mean we said the kids are getting older now , Dave heard it on the radio , erm , for one fifty a head , erm they were opening Guildford 's swimming pool erm , from ten till twe twelve ?
9 We 'd finished off the second round with an eagle when Lee put one in from miles away , and in the third round he seemed to be holing putts right , left and centre , which was a good job because we 'd fallen foul of the 6th again , for the third time .
10 The second goal disappointed me because we 'd talked about Lineker getting behind us , let Gary Lineker have the ball in front and then he 's not so dangerous obviously ; that 's his strength , over the top , bump it in the net .
11 That disappointed me , because we 'd talked about it and done that yesterday in training .
12 ‘ When we got that first call from the company , we thought they were going to sue us because we 'd used some samples on a record without clearing them , ’ laughs Geoff .
13 Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high .
14 You know , because we 'd got a piano , he 'd got a drum set for Christmas .
15 That kind of hurt because we 'd had a relationship for nine years .
16 I did n't think he 'd do that , because we 'd had problems before , because of the black and white thing , There 's a lot of people who will just stop you in the street .
17 I remember one evening we went up to bed , and my head was just spinning because we 'd had about ten ten people had come in , some of them overlapping and some had you know but I 'd say at one stage we had about seven people in the flat together .
18 Erm , on appendix B , erm there is an item which erm members of the committee erm will know about very well it 's the laboratory services that we give and have a great relate to them , erm the item goes under seven I believe , the figures there have dropped , is that because we 'd had a successful income erm there , we 've got a hundred and ten thousand for both up ninety two and ninety three and ninety , sorry ninety two three and ninety three ninety four , is it that er , could we know or are we estimating that we 're going to get a nice income because we have been told in earlier reports that this is quite a good slice of income to us and those figures are amended accordingly is that right ?
19 He comes out , and he , he went down there , and looked out , because we 'd spent a lot of time on it , getting it right , and we were well chuffed about it .
20 And because we 'd found self-esteem , we had the courage to go and sell ourselves successfully to employers .
21 And then we changed things like the name because we found somebody 's name in all these words , somebody , and we just sellotaped it down , and at the end when we were running out of time , and we did about three times have a look at the time , we did change the script slightly to fit the words that we 'd found so we had responsibilities instead of , I do n't know what it was , but instead of another words , just because we 'd found it .
22 Actually the tea shop benefited slightly , because we 'd introduced a new line of rock cakes that week , and some rioters came round to buy them to throw at middle class people . ’
23 I could n't go out without him because we 'd agreed we 'd both do our share .
24 But I remember only too well the time when we had nothing in the bank and we lived in rented property because we 'd sold our home to keep me racing .
25 Because we 'd worked over that seam of conversation at infrequent intervals , in exactly the same order .
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