Example sentences of "because he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edmund was lucky because he got this chance to do a university you see in |
| 2 | Howard has now become scrupulous about washing his socks in fairly hot soapy water ( they can not be washed in extremely hot water because he favours woollen socks , though cotton would be preferable ) and regularly airing his boots . |
| 3 | Senator Ricardo may enact such a bill so as to increase his chance of re-election , or he may oppose it because he favours public spending on ideological grounds . |
| 4 | Only last week Davis scored a course record 65 at Knebworth ( unoffical because he enjoyed preferred lies ) to win the Hertfordshire boys ' title at the expense of Hamilton , who also lost out to Davis in 1991 . |
| 5 | He liked producing plays because he enjoyed creative work , and he was good as a leader and director . |
| 6 | If Euripides brought the spectator onto the stage , it was not because he enjoyed popular favour in his lifetime . |
| 7 | He may have acted in this way because the dog was worrying sheep , or because he wanted to annoy the dog 's owner , or simply because he despises all alsatians . |
| 8 | Noboru Takeshita had to go because he received undeclared sums of money from the Recruit publishing-to-property conglomerate . |
| 9 | She said when you came and I rang to confirm it all she said you 're very lucky because he agreed thirteen pounds and we do n't do it for under fifteen pounds now . |
| 10 | His rehabilitation — from the leader they could not wait to get rid of because he represented high taxes , inflation and military failure ( over Iran ) , to the president everyone loves to cite as the model elder statesman -has been remarkable . |
| 11 | ‘ Liza Jane ’ and ‘ Pity the Fool ’ were released at the time we joined him because he brought this record along and said , ‘ What do you think of this ? ’ |
| 12 | A CLEVELAND pensioner may have died because he wore dark clothing , an inquest heard . |
| 13 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 14 | Hall ( 1987 ) , for example — possibly because he uses different definitions and sample size — presents a somewhat contrasting picture . |
| 15 | It was also important for him because he believed that matriliny , the reckoning of group membership in terms of who one 's mother was , was associated with a high status for women . |
| 16 | In the thirties , my father had been a painter and decorator , plumber , electrician , publican and boxer , but when I was growing up , he was a Spiritualist and a faith healer , talking about his negro spirit-guide , Massa , and explaining how he knew when people were cured because he felt burning coals in the palms of his hands . |
| 17 | And she , Merrill , had jumped to the obvious conclusion that Luke was trying to hide his past association with her cousin because he felt some guilt over the manner of her death . |
| 18 | Maria Filippa understood his lassitude , condoned his inertia ; and for that he felt an overwhelming gratitude , because he knew other wives who would have grown impatient with such a husband , who had begun so promising , so full of the future and then … what with headaches , lack of nerve , had found he no longer had the energy , the stomach for getting on . |
| 19 | He talked and wrote about Russia because he knew that land and loved it for its enduring cultural and academic qualities , which no one could deny . |
| 20 | But Coleridge , who knew him well , saw him as a happy man , because he had one aim in life : |
| 21 | Poor Philip was particularly bothered by this symptom because he had perfect pitch and being in the music business used to go over music in his mind most of his waking hours . |
| 22 | And then do you see , he had taken most of the stuff from here , because he had four sawmills going do you see . |
| 23 | A person would only be liable as a constructive trustee of money he had received in payment of a commercial liability , and which had already passed through his hands , if it was possible to show that he knew that the money was misapplied trust money because he had actual knowledge of the breach of trust or he had wilfully shut his eyes to the obvious or had wilfully or recklessly failed to make inquiries that an honest and reasonable man would have made . |
| 24 | If he caught them before they reached the Isthmus of Corinth he killed the suitor ; and he always did , because he had divine horses given him by his father Ares . |
| 25 | In Manchester , a deaf tramp who had roamed the country for 9 years was arrested as a spy because he had 55 Ordnance Survey maps in his possession , as well as two compasses and twenty crisp £1 notes . |
| 26 | It is precisely because he had many titles that we did not see agree , he and I. Voila . ’ |
| 27 | Whether it was because he had other fish to fry is unrecorded , but Hartlepool 's chippies had made the law courts before . |
| 28 | ‘ The wards were full and a very enthusiastic doctor said that , for the first time , he could use his training to help his patients because he had immediate access to vaccines and medication , ’ reports Robins . |
| 29 | Immediately after the war , when Bullett first approached Freud er , with the idea of writing the book , Freud was apparently feeling very depressed , and er , he was savagely critical of his own work , and er , because he had little access to patients during the war , he generally felt quite down and also by presenting written for him , all he would need to wr all he would need to write , and according to er , other people , perhaps he was eating , he was receiving just sort of waiting to die . |
| 30 | He got to No 10 because he had 18 months earlier forced Neville Chamberlain to readmit him to the Cabinet . |