Example sentences of "because he [vb past] [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were moments when he took on too much ; and although I pursued the matter of our volume only because he had invited me to do so , I soon realized that I was asking more than I should have done , especially as I was uncertain at any moment whether my collaborators saw eye to eye with me about the scope of our project . |
| 2 | Wickham said they would know soon enough because he had sent someone to ask Ayling . |
| 3 | And he knew she was next door because he had heard her moving about . |
| 4 | Damien was all queer and twisted because he had thought she liked him when she did n't . |
| 5 | Halfway through the letter , Bruno said in German : ‘ Ah , he is a major in their Army , ’ and then smiled hastily at Maxim because he had forgotten they had been speaking German earlier . |
| 6 | Ember shoved the wheeled ramp sideways but it was all right because he 'd told her to hang on and she had . |
| 7 | Not because he 'd been provoked or excited ; on the contrary , it had happened because he 'd allowed himself to relax , to lessen his control and to become open and vulnerable . |
| 8 | Other stories about Dic , Little Dick the Carpenter — how he never got to a rugby match because there were too many pubs on the way , how he was burnt all over in a pit explosion , wrapped in bandages so that only his eyes and nostrils showed through — and bathed slowly back to health by his daughters who poured olive oil over him all the time , how he took his daughter Cecilia ( Cis ) to eisteddfods because he loved to hear her sing but how she pleaded with him ‘ not to stop anywhere and not to leave her in the hall ’ . |
| 9 | Because he wanted to use it to locate carp and pike he was getting some fiery abuse . |