Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew the farmer who was hiding him , Signor Merli , because I had often met him in the bank , and I knew he was a very honest and reliable man who would never betray anybody . |
| 2 | ‘ Because I 've just seen him making his way in this direction , ’ he concluded triumphantly . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps that was because I 'd already warned him I 'd bop him on the nose if he tried it . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's because you 've never met him . |
| 5 | He 'd always had the nicest smile , open and boyish , but she 'd forgotten the way his hazel eyes sparkled with greenish lights , perhaps because she 'd never seen him so tanned before . |
| 6 | It was because she 'd never taken him seriously that the whole thing had come as a surprise . |
| 7 | Sometimes he tried to catch her style in scraps of speech that he wrote in a notebook , because she had often told him to listen to the way strangers talked and to keep a record of conversations overheard in the Underground . |
| 8 | Thus when the postmistress asks him if he has come from Mars , he answers ‘ yes ’ because she has just told him the story of Merlin that is a local myth . |
| 9 | She can not guess at his anxieties or burdens because she has never encouraged him to talk about them or found time to stop whatever she was doing and listen . |