Example sentences of "because he [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand an ambassador might refuse a present because he thought it insultingly small , because his mission had been unsuccessful , or because it seemed that the monarch he represented was about to go to war with the one whose court he was leaving . |
| 2 | Tolkien did know ‘ The Little Mermaid ’ , though he did not like it ( Letters , p. 311 ) , probably because he thought it too sentimental . |
| 3 | In the contrasting situation , when there is no convention but only agreement in conviction , everyone follows the same rule but principally because he thinks it independently the best rule to follow . |
| 4 | I was so downhearted and at such a low ebb because he made it painfully clear I did n't figure in that great club 's future , however much I loved the place . |
| 5 | ‘ The defendant clearly did not see the bicycle because he hit it firmly in the rear , ’ Mr Reid said . |
| 6 | He valued advice because he found it almost impossible to make decisions . |
| 7 | Euripides would probably have said that what Aeschylus did was wrong because he did it unconsciously . |
| 8 | You needed to stop there because he did it very well , did n't he ? |
| 9 | I 'd go and see him regularly because he did it really well , once he left |
| 10 | Soon he was joined by other Europeans and henceforth it became a common sight to see one or other of the ladies or gentlemen of the " confident " party slapping away at the trough where once the dhobi had slapped ( for on the day after the Collector 's appearance the dhobi had vanished from the enclave , either because he considered it too dangerous to remain any longer now that the commander of the garrison had assumed the caste of dhobi or , more likely , because he resented the competition ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Because he tried it once before , when I was working up in Manchester . |
| 12 | Four years earlier he told Boswell that the difference between the two was that whereas Rousseau talked nonsense and knew he did — because he talked it so well — Monboddo , who talked an inferior brand , did not know he was talking nonsense . |