Example sentences of "because he could [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She loved her father because he could make everyone laugh . |
| 2 | It must be true that Nanny was a liar and a trouble-maker because he could hear her saying all those terrible things that might cause Frankie to be taken away for ever . |
| 3 | She went in for a drink one time , she liked a few drinks around midday , she used to say it helped the long hot afternoons slide by , ’ and Nathan smiled to himself , because he could hear her saying it . |
| 4 | Another Orton diary entry referred to a man complaining about the TV show being a ‘ fake ’ — presumably because he could see they worked from scripts . |
| 5 | But these activities occupied him , one may well think , because he could see he had painted himself into a corner : the purely literary reason for not finishing The Silmarillion is deducible not only from that work itself , but from almost the whole of Tolkien 's professional career . |