Example sentences of "[noun sg] because we [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 Palace manager Steve Coppell said : ‘ Everything we get from John now is a bonus because we did fear the worst .
2 Gary Player did a lot of sponsorship on the black side because we felt we had to help .
3 And of course the , with the boxes being all round the side , the dressing boxes , this was outmoded , we needed a building at the side , which there was sufficient room to build something at the side because we had a park at the side of it then .
4 We will have a different attitude , we 'll bear to watch what is happening in competitive tendering and to ask questions and to get the right the facts on competitive tendering because we found a lot of these round the competitive tendering do n't you , do n't you worry and we ai n't finished with it yet I can tell you and also we have ev , the people who are , the in house , walking in the house , have a right to have some protection from it , to see that when we dole out those contracts that it least they are genuine and they 've got a someone to see that that their interest is looked after .
5 ‘ They hit the bar and we were a bit lucky there but we deserved a break because we fought right to the death on a very heavy pitch . ’
6 ‘ We never submitted to the Italians : we went into exile because we supported the Sanusi ’ was not a thoroughgoing rejection of government .
7 It 's , it 's by actually looking at , well I , in Bill and Kevin 's appraisal I actually tackled it through their appraisal because we discussed , in quite a lot of depth , erm what their workload and ways in which they could change their workload
8 Here there was confusion because we wanted to climb the highest point in the Lemon Mountains .
9 It must have been then that the two coaches came to light because we moved house in 1925 and quite certainly the coaches were never at the old house but appeared very early on at the new one .
10 We actually put it down in our own manifesto because we thought it was a good idea .
11 Bryan Gould ( then Shadow Chief Secretary ) and I , lost the battle because we fought an accountant 's war .
12 That mix-up caused us serious problems for the rest of the campaign because we had to be constantly reassuring the media that we would get them good positions .
13 Before we had we bought a house and so I really had to come back to work because we needed my wages and erm the creche was just being brought out so I knew there was a chance of coming back .
14 ‘ We did n't overdo or over emphasize Ken 's neuterism because we had him make love or going after it , but we knew that underneath it all was another character . ’
15 Er , that 's a difficult question because we bought er anywhere we could er , and where we thought there was leather that we could make a small profit on .
16 We were n't erm we were n't able to do a multi-variant analysis with the grade because we did n't have a sufficient number of , of the grade to do it .
17 Erm , dum , dum , the market stall as you know , we did n't have it in the market , we had it on the thank goodness because we parked it in the shade , erm during that period we got five hundred and thirty two signatures , with three or four more of you it could of been a thousand , erm we also got fourteen pounds , seventeen in donations , all completely unasked for cos as you know , we do n't take money .
18 Peter added : ‘ It 's a shame because we had four teams ready to play this year — more than in any previous year .
19 It was a special comeback because we did n't really look as though we were going to score for much of the game .
20 And only two amazing misses , one of those candidly coming er just before scored the second Notts goal , with a headed chance headed wide when er had come and missed it , and when on forty four minutes on the watch but not a minute before the end of half time if you get the meaning because we had that long period of extra time , er missed the chance completely , he 'd made the er Pisa goal brilliantly with a cross from the right hand side , deep cross , pulled back brilliantly , but left with a chance , the number eleven in front of the post , well what was he doing ? again had come and again he 'd missed it and left with an open goal was wide of the target .
21 I , I came very close to having a very bad accident because we did n't , we were up early in the morning and we did n't
22 However , what I can do is try to present to you some of the points of view we tried to draw together in that group because we did have someone who is a proprietor of a private home ; we had people from health ; we had people from social work ; we had people from housing ; we had people from different interest groups who approached the issue in different ways .
23 Aye , Temple was but it , it was a good job because we had no oranges and they had to go and break in .
24 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 .
25 Sigourney was coming on last and we were going to move the seats around during the interval because we felt that she might not be able to concentrate sitting next to the heavily made-up and highly camp Julian .
26 And we decided not to record the meeting because we had objections which is fair enough .
27 What we are not sure is that at the end of the day it does n't matter all that much what exactly was the raffle and what exactly was the entrance fee because we did n't keep a note of that .
28 In fact , in this case the unit was out on a CDL trial with quite inadequate documentation — the only documentation we had at that time was such that we were frightened to show it to the teacher because we realized that it would ‘ finish him off ’ .
29 We were obliged to open a crèche because we found girls staying at home to look after the babies .
30 I can go out for the odd meal without suffering from the binge factor because we had a dessert .
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