Example sentences of "because he [verb] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only because he had noticed a tree with a particular marking carved into the trunk , which he had himself incised , that he found the cave at all . |
| 2 | However , the trailer 's loss was not merely nominal because he had lost a sale . |
| 3 | I do n't remember what I recited , but I do remember being acutely embarrassed on another occasion when people were telling anecdotes , and I recounted one about a soldier being saved from a court martial because he had heard a clock strike thirteen at midnight , and this fact had saved him from being found guilty of sleeping on duty . |
| 4 | Most children would rather learn about Julius Caesar who was a real person with a long nose , killed by his own friends because he had become a dictator , than study the rise of Meroe or Axum which have little interest to an eleven-year-old . |
| 5 | Well , the city was n't a nice place to live because of all the silly laws the merchant had passed , and people started to leave it and go to other towns and other countries , and the merchant was spending so much time passing new laws and trying to make people obey the ones he 'd already passed that his own business started to fail , and eventually the city was almost deserted , and the merchant found that he owed people much more money than he had in the bank , and even though he sold his house and everything he owned he was still broke ; he was thrown out of his house and out of the city too , because he had become a beggar , and beggars were n't allowed in the city . |
| 6 | He was there simply and solely because he had attended a service when help forms were given out . |
| 7 | A little later , another customer complained about the employee because he had started a relationship with the customer 's wife . |
| 8 | The father of one family had no contact with their Irish Catholic grandparents because he had married a Protestant — although he did later inherit one of the grandfather 's pawnshops . |
| 9 | When he addressed the audience it was to remind them of ‘ one of my lovely wives ’ — a sly reference to the Fifties tour when he was hounded by the British press because he had married a 13-year-old . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , because he had had a source of comfort , the moment Ellie left to go back to the house his mournful howls increased in volume . |
| 11 | The Mason came down out of his cart wearing God 's Creation robe because he had taken a fancy to its white ermine collar and the cabalistic sun , moon and stars embroidered front and back . |
| 12 | He and Ollie and Mac made a good team , playing at various Underground stations all that autumn and winter until Mac left because he had found a place to live up north and they took Peter on . |
| 13 | Her father 's bouts of fury were n't strategic , they never achieved anything but trouble for him : there were some houses , she knew , where he had played and was no longer welcome because he 'd made a scene . |
| 14 | Now I knew of no better , and Alan should 've known better because he 'd done a lot more removals than I had and he said Oh you 're alright Neal , do n't worry . |
| 15 | His extra two years had come about because he 'd shot a security guard in the leg with a twelve-bore . |
| 16 | We were obviously impressed because he 'd got a record released . |
| 17 | A friend of mine followed us round and he was starting to panic because he 'd had a bet on the boss . |
| 18 | said in the paper today that Michael Barrymore mother is very concerned about him because he 's lost a lot of weight |
| 19 | So I I I 've said to Margaret , he 's a , I think he must doing something with the extractor fan because he 's cut a hole in the er barge pole so , on the board so obviously |
| 20 | because he 's had a spell or two at Stowmarket |
| 21 | But it also brought a smile to manager Brian Horton , and I was thrilled to bits for him because he 's taken a lot of stick over recent results . |
| 22 | It 's got a bad reputation , we associate it with old age , the truth is , man loses his hair because he 's got too much male testosterone and he loses it because he 's got a sex drive like a rampant rhino . |
| 23 | Because he 's got a plan of the site so he wants to know with his little squares , what 's what . |
| 24 | Yeah , but he did n't need the modulator so he gave it to because he 's got a monitor , right ? |
| 25 | I 've had this twice and each time it 's been upheaval because he 's got a lot of goods which had to moved in shoe horned in moved peoples belongings out of one cupboard into another . |
| 26 | Monte Samana is his , I know that now , and he deserves his profits , because he has made a holiday place that sits on the side of the hill as though it were set there by the Spaniards themselves , the Andalusians and the descendants of the Moors . ’ |
| 27 | If the arrest is lawful but the accused believes it to be unlawful , he is guilty because he has made a mistake of law : Bentley ( 1850 ) 4 Cox CC 406 . |
| 28 | I could say that the hon. Gentleman should ask one of his former hon. Friends because he has given a definition . |
| 29 | The gift will have been one subject to a reservation either because the gift is treated as a class gift to all the discretionary beneficiaries and the donor is one of them ( so he is not entirely excluded from the property ) or , possibly because he has retained a benefit ( there is an ability to benefit him under the terms of the trust deed ) . |
| 30 | Rusty Conway becomes one of Serena 's patients because he has had a spell of extreme absent-mindedness which made him incapable of carrying out his work . |