Example sentences of "because i had [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I had n't put in the back . |
| 2 | I 'd forgone breakfast because I had n't got to bed till four in the morning , lunch because I had a hangover and anyway I was late for the train , and due to the fact that it was — according to British Rail at any rate — still part of the extended Festive Period , there had been no buffet trolley on the train . |
| 3 | He had been late talking — was that because I had n't coo-ed at him and gurgled baby talk ? |
| 4 | Read had not been particularly interested in my political book ( which I had submitted to him in fulfilment of the option clause in my contract with Routledge , so I got together some more representative pieces and sent them to Eliot , no least because he had published my article on ‘ Philosophy and Politics ’ in The Criterion , and because I had again spoken about my plans at our first meeting after the war . |
| 5 | I was feel very proud of myself because I had just progressed from a tiny red tricycle to riding a huge yellow proper bicycle , with stabilizers . |
| 6 | Nour had laughed because I had not heard of Herodotus . |
| 7 | I felt aggrieved at this because I had not worked with the sister during my placement , and could not imagine how she could possibly assess my work and capability . |
| 8 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 9 | Some twenty-five years later , when I became interested in hypnosis and then in regression therapy , I began to wonder whether my earlier fascination was because I had actually lived in Tudor times . |