Example sentences of "because i [vb past] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | I attacked your servant only because I believed he had killed you . |
| 2 | ‘ I had never been interviewed before but felt really at ease , mainly because I discovered I had been an informal link worker all my life ! |
| 3 | Not that I 'm complaining because I realized they had a job to do , but they were all firing their questions at once , and I do like to give a civil , considered reply . |
| 4 | And , and you think to yourself oh we 've seen everything , but I used to get pleasure in taking somebody to the potteries because I knew they had n't seen it and it would be like ooh , when they got there , you could see the shock , the surprise in their eyes when they went in there |
| 5 | She even very kindly offered to attend to things , but I would not let her do that because I knew I had to face up to my responsibilities . |
| 6 | I remember once we were going to have a lot more crocuses on the way up the drive , and he said , ‘ Look , you decide what you want and I 'll order them , ’ so I decided what I thought would be good , because I knew I had to put them in . |
| 7 | ‘ The second stroke was terrifying because I knew I had escaped the trauma of the first , I was petrified . |
| 8 | ‘ The second stroke was terrifying because I knew I had escaped the trauma of the first , I was petrified . |
| 9 | because I thought you had to be in post this is what we had a problem with with Napier 's request for recognition |
| 10 | I think I took drugs to escape my problems , because I thought I had the world on my shoulders for a number of reasons . |
| 11 | I resigned myself to becoming a brilliant restaurant manager because I thought I had missed my chance of becoming a chef . |
| 12 | ‘ The reason I chose to come here for a job was because I thought I had relations here . |
| 13 | I know your local authority craftsmen and I have as you 're aware , just taken over the responsibilities and that is the first meeting that I had , that was why also there 's nothing in the report , because I thought I had a conference of people I had not spoken to the shop stewards I did n't have a f a feedback prior to the closing date of the report being concluded for print so I do and I have |
| 14 | If I look so bad it 's because I thought I had lost you . |
| 15 | In some ways I was more reckless and exposed myself to danger because I felt we had to come out and prove that the Government was responsible for the deaths of all the students . |
| 16 | You lost that contest with my Sam because I decided you had to lose it . |
| 17 | Because I missed I had n't seen it actually in my bag . |
| 18 | I kept a five because I remembered I had three fives earlier on . |