Example sentences of "because he say [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He put on a tape of Vivaldi and then switched it off because he said they had too much to talk about . |
| 5 | The headmaster tried to stop me , even though there were punks in dustbin liners and mods and skinheads , because he said I looked different . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The devout Roman Catholic said she got involved with Richard because he said he cared for her and he was single . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Kruger favours pen-based machines because he says they make life easier for the user — all he needs to do is ring the bit of text he wants to file away for future reference , and his computer will store it away on hard disk . |
| 15 | This can ( and occasionally did ) lead to a situation in which a linguist claims that the ‘ data ’ he is using illustrates acceptable linguistic strings because he says it does , as a result of personal introspection , and regardless of how many voices arise in disagreement . |
| 16 | She said I do n't mind going grey but , but Paddy objects because he says it makes him feel old . |
| 17 | Humphrey calls the differentiation of the working class thesis technologically determinist because he says it attaches too much importance to technology . |
| 18 | Brady turned down the loan deal — Boro keeper Steve Pears was injured — because he says he needs Bonner as cover for Gordon Marshall in next week 's UEFA Cup tie with Cologne . |
| 19 | He 's been doing the journey for fifteen years because he says he loves living in the country . |