Example sentences of "because they had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they had taught a topic , it followed that the children had learned it . |
| 2 | ‘ It was a conscious decision to sign to Rough Trade because they had done a lot of good work in the past and right from day one they were our friend which is the most important thing . |
| 3 | He said that France was still shipping the missiles to Argentina because they had signed a contract . |
| 4 | The chorus of televisions was tuned to an American game show in which competing families were leaping up and down and screaming with apparent incontinence because they had won a trip to Disneyworld . |
| 5 | In a war-time article on Smollett he remarked that several writers had recently tried to ‘ revive the picaresque tradition ’ , instancing Waugh and Aldous Huxley — adding that the experiment had not been entirely happy , if only because they had betrayed a sense of strain in an effort to be shocking . |