Example sentences of "because he be the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With some of them it 's general principles because he 's the head . |
| 2 | Because he 's the fellow who now acquires carpets for Liberty . |
| 3 | Getting to know the other , who 's supposed to be wicked because he 's the enemy , makes possible not only battle itself but also close bodily contact between the combatants and between their beliefs . |
| 4 | I told him I loved him because he 's the partner I chose for better or worse . |
| 5 | This is quite appropriate because he is the Emperor of Turkey , and a mighty one at that . |
| 6 | I said it first , because he was the kind of man you said ‘ hello ’ to first . |
| 7 | But no one said anything , because he was the King , my husband . |
| 8 | Or was it because he was the way he was that she had walked out one day when Dadda was at work and he at school , leaving a note on the kitchen table and the remains of the week 's housekeeping money ? |
| 9 | One plausible result might , of course , be that the PLP would make the best of it , tolerating B as their Leader because he was the choice of the Party . |
| 10 | Betty Titford , Thomas 's wife , received help because she was sick ; Thomas himself was out of work in 1801 , and qualified for relief both on that score and because he was the head of a one-parent family which included a sick daughter ; Hephzibah , the little orphan , had been helped and then apprenticed by the overseers , and finally John and Ann , briefly subsidised during times of economic dearth , eventually survived long enough to collect a very modest old-age pension . |
| 11 | It arrived at his desk , as he had privately hoped , simply because he was the long-stop for security/intelligence matters that nobody else wanted to field . |
| 12 | Henry Geltzahler earns special derision ( probably because he was the hip jet-setter Hoving yearned to be ) . |
| 13 | He became a suspect for the double rape because he was the goalkeeper for a local amateur soccer team and police were able to match his footprints to those found on a floor in his victim 's house . |
| 14 | Rob and Chris , in town for a Tall Persons Club gathering , wanted to meet Bill because he was the sort of guy they could look up to . |
| 15 | He found me one day , crying my heart out , and because he was the sort of man he was — kind , sympathetic — I told him . |
| 16 | I wish that the right hon. Member for Chesterfield ( Mr. Benn ) had dealt with that point in his speech , because he was the Energy Minister when the letter of the Act was being breached . |
| 17 | Jesus did not grant Nicodemus an interview because he was the leader or a pharisee , because he was a leader amongst the Jews . |
| 18 | We used to call him Daddy Wilkins because he was the father of a large family , but they had all grown up , got married and spread about , so he was left on his own — probably not able to cook for himself which is why he went to live at Mrs Raw 's place . |
| 19 | ‘ They also say that he was murdered because he was the father of Cissie Jordan 's baby . ’ |
| 20 | If he lost out to Jeremy Irons , his fans said , it was because he was the victim of a feminist-puritanical cabal . |
| 21 | As a child Louis-Napoleon showed himself to be both alert and sensitive , two attributes which made his life difficult , because he was the victim of the unhappy marriage of his parents . |
| 22 | Director of specialist support for New Possibilities Fay Gerrie said she took the original decision to sack Mr Reid , who has 28 years ' service at the hospital , because he was the charge nurse and therefore responsible for the villa . |
| 23 | She could have been stoned , people would have mocked her as she passed in the street , as they jeered and booed that girl Serafina when she started getting bigger and everyone knew who 'd done it but they could n't do anything about it , not even kill him , because he was the son of a nobleman -Rosalba shuddered , remembering the way Serafina had thrown up her chin and turned and screamed at her tormentors , ‘ And which one of you is so good that you can point at me ! ’ , then dropped her head and run away down the street , holding her heavy breasts as she ran . |