Example sentences of "because [pron] 'd [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told you I sleep in that chair , did n't I ? — It must have been about midnight because I 'd just watched this film and that did n't finish until half eleven . |
| 2 | On an outing to the obscure Gate Crag in Eskdale we picked a route called Bosigran — this had to be climbed because I 'd just returned from my first climbing trip to Cornwall . |
| 3 | I 'd taken a year off just before I found out I was pregnant , because I 'd badly needed a break and then I could n't work looking fat . |
| 4 | I was in Nassau on business today but could n't keep my mind on it because I 'd already decided to come up here tonight and be with you . |
| 5 | In a way it did n't surprise me , because I 'd already had a taste of what he was up to with that land . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps that was because I 'd already warned him I 'd bop him on the nose if he tried it . |
| 7 | The one she actually cancelled was the one to her family because I 'd already cancelled the group one . |
| 8 | It was a surprise because I 'd barely thought of her since I was fucked by her dog , an incident with which she had become associated in my mind : Helen and dog-cock went together . |
| 9 | He rebuked me because I 'd apparently stepped in too quickly with the next question before he 'd finished answering the last one . |
| 10 | ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished . |
| 11 | Because I 'd always been called skinny . |
| 12 | So they had me as continuity and I got the job and it was a bit of a struggle because I 'd always been traffic , traffic at work but this was a little bit different in that if you had to do more accountancy and I had to pick it up . |
| 13 | Oh that 's not as bad as I thought because I 'd always heard that it was like really really expensive to produce er material in braille . |
| 14 | I did n't waste much time trying to see what Filmer did or where he went , because I 'd quickly discovered that the Westin Hotel was sitting over an entrance to a subterranean shopping mall that stretched like a rabbit warren in all directions . |
| 15 | And there was a neurosis and an anxiety involved around doing that solo record for me , because I 'd never done one before and I did n't know if I could actually pull it off . |
| 16 | ‘ I was really nervous because I 'd never kissed anybody and she was really nice . |
| 17 | John , 39 , found the record haul while renovating a Liverpool house and dumped them ‘ because I 'd never heard of Larry Lurex ’ . |
| 18 | As far as lab work went , I always felt very intimidated because I 'd never touched anything more technical than a hairdryer , and all these boys around me were confidently plugging in their oscilloscopes , because I mean , I suppose they had their train sets and that sort of thing , and I was very scared to plug things in , in case they blew up . |
| 19 | No , I mean , strangely enough that was one of the things that almost put me off the relationship in the first place because I 'd never had any desire to be a mother . |
| 20 | I just got that scared , because I 'd never been to an antenatal class , I did n't know what was going to happen . |
| 21 | Wrote hundreds of letter , er to the people you wanted to do , because I 'd never expected having to find a job , I must admit , because the year before I took School Certificate I had got a Naval a artificer apprenticeship , but then I got kicked in the eye playing rugby , and failed a medical . |
| 22 | Erm because I 'd never actually been in the flats before . |
| 23 | But my father heard about it , he bailed me out , got a lawyer , and they dismissed the case in the end because I 'd never been paid . |
| 24 | Well when we went there was Phyllis , Julie , and me and I was in the middle of because I 'd never been on ice skates before , I 'd been roller skating holding each side of them right , and they let me go and I just went and I was going down and I went bang right on the bloody side . |
| 25 | It was great , but it was I mean , I , I have to watch it because I 'd never seen it before |
| 26 | it 's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun , I thought what have I let myself in for because I 'd never worn dog tags before and I 'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise , I 'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days |
| 27 | You did n't fall in love with someone in the space of a few days , just because you 'd finally succumbed to the lures of sex , or lust , or whatever had overwhelmed her ever since he 'd fished her out of the sea that first night … |
| 28 | As he watched her , he suddenly thought how childish it had been to imagine you could play number three for Somerset just because you 'd once made seventeen in an over off the indifferent bowling of Philpott , A.J. |
| 29 | ‘ I can imagine you saying that you really could n't tell her because you 'd entirely forgotten the incident — and if it had occurred it meant nothing to you . ’ |
| 30 | erm , wo n't you start again because you 'd only got a couple of minutes into it , had n't you ? |