Example sentences of "because he [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The transaction seems to embarrass him because he insists on carrying it out in the corridor out of sight of his secretary , whose fluffy blue feet have just slipped and slid back through the door of his office . |
| 2 | But he will not be able to start planning his own campaign yet , because he flies to South Africa next week to help the ANC prepare for elections there . |
| 3 | well he has I mean er my my daughter-in-law said he takes he mu he very often drives he 's got a season ticket , an annual season ticket t er to take the train but more often than not he drives because he gets into the into London at about quarter to seven in the morning he goes and you know , parks the car and then goes and gets breakfast and she says he always takes at least one shirt in the car with him to change into . |
| 4 | An interesting thought , because he turns on its head our usual temptation to crowd prayer out when we are busy . |
| 5 | He might have been using it to make him feel good and as a means to escape boredom or because he feels under pressure to join a group who were sniffing . |
| 6 | Because he feels like it . |
| 7 | Lewis Carroll possibly knew of this phrase but , because he refers to the grin outlasting the rest of the body , it is more likely that his real influence was the cheese rather than the swordsman . |
| 8 | Born in a Preston slum , and upbraided as ‘ a worldly little devil ’ by his harridan mother because he longs for food and warmth , his acute fear of being thought worldly dominates his subsequent life , causing him to be misunderstood and exploited . |
| 9 | This is the spirit of truth whom the world can not receive because it does not know him , does not behold him or know him , but you know him because he abides with you and will be in you . |
| 10 | Campbell links our problems of leadership with that of Jesus ' loneliness , and comments : ‘ See , he has been there too and because he identifies with it , he can handle it . |
| 11 | We expect to find a guilty incident or relationship because he writes continually of guilt ; we expect to find sin because he speaks of atonement and expiation . |
| 12 | Norman , whose scintillating final round wiped out a five-shot deficit , added : ‘ He is great to play with because he goes about his business in his own way . |
| 13 | Because he goes around the country with his tape recorder finding out what 's going on . |
| 14 | Your family doctor may know one end of a thyroid gland from another-with any luck — but no especial wisdom is granted him because he sits in a surgery seeing one coughing person after another all day ; peering into ears and wombs and hearing tales of insomnia and worms . |
| 15 | ‘ Nobody could mistake his calls , though , because he likes to take-off telephones and wolfwhistles a lot . ’ |
| 16 | It seems , then , that not only may an entrepreneur-producer be a monopolist because he happens at the same time to be a monopolist resource owner , he may be a monopolist because he has made himself a monopolist resource owner in the course of his entrepreneurial activities . |
| 17 | ‘ To howl down a man just because he happens to be out of form one day is often sufficient to discourage him for all time , ’ he told the Yorkshire Evening Post . |
| 18 | ‘ However — and it is a BUT in capital letters — it 's as deplorable as it 's inevitable that because he happens to be a movie star his actions have drawn a torrent of destructive attention upon the entire industry with a free-for-all splurge in 57 varieties of scandal , malicious tongue-wagging and dirt . ’ |
| 19 | The argument for saying that there should be liability in such circumstances is that a constable does not cease to have certain general duties because he happens to be ‘ off duty ’ for the time being . |
| 20 | ‘ I imagine you employed him , ’ she rebuked him tightly , ‘ because he happens to be a first-class mechanic . ’ |
| 21 | He lives on the garden level because he suffers from gout . ’ |
| 22 | But a Christian certainly would because he starts from a different basis . |
| 23 | I have never been of the opinion that an artist is great simply because he works in New York or Paris . |
| 24 | She only sees her husband once a year because he works in Outer Mongolia , so I feel my three month 's absence from home is not as bad as it might be . |
| 25 | He specifies 150 years because he has in mind the social and political reforms of Peter the Great in the early Eighteenth Century . |
| 26 | Another might be attracted to it because he sees in it the possibility of calendar reform . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's because he argues with me , ’ Maggie pointed out , but Ana shook her head again . |
| 28 | If the facilitator is successful , it is because he acts as a traffic cop ; he rephrases the conversation whenever it is necessary ; he clarifies issues ; he points out messages that may be upsetting others , and so on . |
| 29 | Throughout his work Marx stresses how different man is from animals , because he acts in terms of ideas and concepts which are formed in his mind , and therefore human history is of a different kind to natural history . |
| 30 | He said and what he often does is because he lives over this area . |