Example sentences of "because i had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew the Mozarteum Orchestra because I had played with them as a pianist , and I was well known in Salzburg , so we had no difficulty in selling tickets . |
| 2 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 3 | It was in light of this experience of priests who were barely capable of understanding the Latin Vulgate and Mass , or who juggled with a text and expounded it in such a way as to obscure its original meaning , that Tyndale now decided to translate the New Testament into English ‘ because I had perceived by experience , how that it was impossible to establish the lay-people in any truth , except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother-tongue ’ . |
| 4 | I had told myself that heat was cleansing , because I had grown fearful of water . |
| 5 | I was turned down by all the universities on my UCCA application form , because I had received a bad report from my headmaster at Downside School who said I took drugs , which was true , but was also an admission made to him in confidence . |
| 6 | Despite not strictly working shifts , I recorded abnormal temperatures , probably — though it is not proven — because I had missed so much sleep . |
| 7 | But my mother was very keen and she was very disappointed because I had missed out . |
| 8 | And that 's one of the reasons I ended up I ended up in in Brothers because I had missed the chance to go into work with the Bank you see . |
| 9 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way , because I had misunderstood him a bit . |
| 10 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 11 | Erm , well my particular case was cut and dry , no medical miracles , as I say , could help me because I had lost a baby at six months during the labour and erm in order to save to my life I had a hysterectomy so there was no possibility of I V F , etcetera , etcetera . |
| 12 | ‘ Because I had invited him to my house . |
| 13 | However , one day I my colleague attacked me for imposing my ‘ middle-class values ’ on the children because I had emphasized polite speech and decent manners in my sessions . |
| 14 | Because I had insisted on taking the photographs myself I had not finished the book by its deadline . |
| 15 | Because I had taught him about it you know , from coming from . |
| 16 | He could see more of mine , because I had swung round during that last exchange . |
| 17 | Although I insisted to the referee that the goal should stand because I had sent Pahdra on as substitute , the ref was not fooled , especially as Mr Singh was still wearing his dufflecoat and brogues . |
| 18 | it , it may have been because I had raised some concerns , concerning that particular er statement |
| 19 | And although I was sharing the pain with her , still I was exulting , because I had made her mine , and what I had had and what I had taken , no man ever in the world could have of her . |
| 20 | I met most of my party there because I had flown from Stavanger and they had arrived via Oslo , but we all boarded the plane bound for Longyearbyen with great anticipation . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought it was food poisoning because I had prepared fish which I had not cooked properly and when the doctor arrived he thought the same way . |
| 22 | I was lucky because I had turned my back on illusion , pursuing instead common-sense reality . |
| 23 | I had not kept my old key , because I had hoped that my association with Cutwater Charters was done , so I was forced to carry my heavy pack into the tangle of dark alleys that lay behind the straw market and where I planned to find Ellen and borrow her key . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've stopped because I had hoped you 'd give me an explanation . ’ |
| 25 | It is all up to you — and I decided that I was never going to say anything to her because I had done it all on my own . |
| 26 | because I had seen it painted twice |
| 27 | I did n't recommend it because I had seen what it had done to sensitive artists like Scott Walker . |
| 28 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 29 | Because I had seen my young brother-in-law and I says I 'm gon na be like that then , did n't fe er feel any of this er at that time . |
| 30 | I sent back a tirade of bitter invective , written during a long , lonely evening when Richard was dining in college : did she think that because I had given up working for my degree I was necessarily isolated from intelligent thought ? |