Example sentences of "because he [verb] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ex-soldier seemed to get his nerve back-I guess because he realized he had to do something-and he said , " We better settle this right now . " |
| 2 | He said there was so much stuff up there I could n't reel off what they 've got because he said they got everything . |
| 3 | Well round near us they terrorized an eighty three year old lady er near us and er it was a , I met the man next door and his wife and they were the ones that got the police because he said they 'd got her furniture out on the pavement to with a doodah up there . |
| 4 | He used to go out in the air raids and watch the anti aircraft shells bursting in the sky because he said they looked like beautiful flowers . |
| 5 | He put on a tape of Vivaldi and then switched it off because he said they had too much to talk about . |
| 6 | The headmaster tried to stop me , even though there were punks in dustbin liners and mods and skinheads , because he said I looked different . |
| 7 | We both had anoraks but Oliver would never pull up his hood because he said it made him look like a monk and he did n't want to endorse Christianity . |
| 8 | When the guard was told that no one had moved from their seats he became very worried because he said he had to make out a report to British Rail as to the cause of the delay and he then said , ‘ I 'll have to put it down to person or persons unknown ’ . |
| 9 | Dr. Goldsmith and Dr. Phillips were asked to examine him because he said he had been kicked and jumped on by the labour master , and that his body was black and blue ; no marks of violence were in fact found . |
| 10 | Her denials were useless because he said he had returned to Kington Square early that morning and seen her coming out of the flat arm in arm with a man . |
| 11 | The devout Roman Catholic said she got involved with Richard because he said he cared for her and he was single . |
| 12 | Then , because he said he 'd missed the train — although there was still ten minutes to go — I thought he was n't at Paddington at all : I thought Kemp was probably in Oxford . |
| 13 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 14 | He won that actually on appeal because he said he needed to raise the funds for a project he 'd got in mind and they allowed him twenty eight days in the first year , he now carries on fourteen days without planning permission every year , but give him credit he does run it very well , er and you can not fault him , but we in our area do actually issue licences , you can not have a car boot sale or market stall without a licence and I personally have run the charity markets in er the village high street and got a licence at the cost of a pound . |
| 15 | Furthermore , Morgan was interested in the patterns which kinship terms create , not just for themselves , but because he believed they reflected the system of marriage with which they had originally been used . |
| 16 | Baldwin disliked the level of unemployment both for its own sake and because he believed it worked against the evolution of a moderate Labour Party . |
| 17 | He killed 19-year-old Walter Smith because he believed he had been mistreating his childhood friend Sharon . |
| 18 | His point arose because he felt we had n't best differentiated his guitar from the rest of the pack in our review of it . |
| 19 | He very rarely helped round the house , because he felt we had different jobs . |
| 20 | He was the nastiest , really dangerous because he felt he had to go that extra distance . |
| 21 | He regretted the Ryans ' intractability because he felt it made Eileen unhappy . |
| 22 | He went back to the mill because he knew he belonged there . |
| 23 | Monza was to be decisive for his championship , and Ken Tyrrell has written that it was Jackie 's finest race , not least because he knew he led the championship and because , having already decided to retire , he needed to do no more than the minimum , particularly since he was starting only from sixth place on the grid . |
| 24 | It was from the credit that the , I went the education secretary his , his secretary was retiring and er he came for me because he knew I knew Guild and Co-operative work you know . |
| 25 | However , Leese quarrelled with the ‘ BF 's ’ , as he called them , because he thought they lacked dynamism and credibility . |
| 26 | He worked on numbers because he thought they controlled people 's lives . |
| 27 | And someone said he did n't go because he thought it meant we were n't confirmed ! ’ |
| 28 | Such as the time when the very inebriated gentleman , at 2 a.m. , wanted to know how to stop his budgie falling off its perch , because he thought it had cramp in its legs ! |
| 29 | Without consulting the master layout plan I have no idea which square yard H24/V72 occupies on the pitch , once the biggest in England until former manager Billy Bremner lopped off a few yards because he thought it put the team at a disadvantage when playing away ( they must now be regretting all those lost square yards they could be selling ) . |
| 30 | In that house lived a bricklayer who murdered the baker because he thought he 'd stolen one of his pigs . |