Example sentences of "because we [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Once Bernie and I dragged right across town to a pub in the back of beyond in North London because we 'd seen a gig advertised there featuring a band called The Teenage Rebels .
2 You know , because we 'd got a piano , he 'd got a drum set for Christmas .
3 That kind of hurt because we 'd had a relationship for nine years .
4 Erm , on appendix B , erm there is an item which erm members of the committee erm will know about very well it 's the laboratory services that we give and have a great relate to them , erm the item goes under seven I believe , the figures there have dropped , is that because we 'd had a successful income erm there , we 've got a hundred and ten thousand for both up ninety two and ninety three and ninety , sorry ninety two three and ninety three ninety four , is it that er , could we know or are we estimating that we 're going to get a nice income because we have been told in earlier reports that this is quite a good slice of income to us and those figures are amended accordingly is that right ?
5 He comes out , and he , he went down there , and looked out , because we 'd spent a lot of time on it , getting it right , and we were well chuffed about it .
6 Actually the tea shop benefited slightly , because we 'd introduced a new line of rock cakes that week , and some rioters came round to buy them to throw at middle class people . ’
7 They were so dependent on Britain for their trade and knew that they were accepted into the EC only because we had become a member that it was not a subject that exercised them overmuch .
8 When we saw Low Birk Hatt advertised in the Darlington and Stockton Times , we realized who it belonged to because we had seen the television programmes .
9 There were several hundred birds and , because we had rounded a corner and surprised them , they panicked and went rushing off in a tight bunch , making an accurate count impossible .
10 It was a busier time for us because we had to feed the the the six of them w we put them into a big shed and they just slept there but we we gave them their dinner , they managed to make their own breakfast and their tea whatever They had bread and stuff like that but we had to make their dinner for them .
11 They were not well off and they did n't welcome us because we had brought gifts they simply welcomed us because we had had the interest to go and see them and talk to them .
12 Because we had to find a nurse to ask
13 After a few minutes ' silent reflection , however , I saw that the difficulty arose because we had read the phrase in quite different ways .
14 Part of the high cost was because we had to shoehorn the suite into a difficult-shaped space .
15 Here there was confusion because we wanted to climb the highest point in the Lemon Mountains .
16 ‘ We started off by concentrating on hardback fiction and mass market paperbacks because we wanted to build a paperback backlist as quickly as possible to get regular sales going through each month .
17 The first one on our list tonight , ah , one seven nine , is for the young ladies that we 've just seen , with a production of their book , A Dog Called Mock , and I think that we er , talked about this , and asked them to come in , because we wanted to know the substance , and whether this thing was actually taking place , and what was , I , I , I do n't know what the rest of you feel , I think they made a fine presentation , and it 's obviously something which is going ahead , and I hope that some of you feel , we should reward initiative .
18 Three years ago I stopped taking the Pill because we wanted to have a baby .
19 Palace manager Steve Coppell said : ‘ Everything we get from John now is a bonus because we did fear the worst .
20 Erm what kind of publicity material we require , and we 'll come on to that later because we did elect a publicity sub group I remember .
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