Example sentences of "because [pron] had [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think , because I had been working on Armchair Theatre , I was used to a certain style of drama , so when I saw the first Doctor Who script my first reaction was , after the first half hour , all we were left with was a lot of hairy-chested cavemen jumping around , grunting and going ‘ Ug ’ . |
| 2 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
| 3 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |
| 4 | The time difference between London and Mexico City is six hours , and because we had been travelling with the sun , it was still quite high in the sky as we descended into the sepia haze that hung over the whole flat expanse of what had once been a great lake . |
| 5 | George Underwood : ‘ It was all instigated by David really , because he had been listening to the World Service on the radio and suddenly got the bug to get involved in American Football , and he wrote to the American Embassy asking for more information . |
| 6 | And who was it who said that when he agreed to play the Devil in the Witches of Eastwick , it was because he had been practising for the role all his life ? |