Example sentences of "because he [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately Stephano can not claim a new record for what was the second biggest fish ever landed in Irish waters on rod and line because he received assistance . |
| 2 | He did not find one because he distrusted quantum mechanics . |
| 3 | The whole of this passage is spoken by the Wanderer , except for the last lines where the The Solitary ( called the Sceptic because he reads Voltaire ) answers back . |
| 4 | I think there 's one advantage in letting the Paymaster know because he deducts tax at source , whereas your second employer may not , and it may be to your advantage to be paying tax |
| 5 | I married George because he represented safety to me . |
| 6 | He 's not orthodox but clearly has a good technique because he scores runs on bad pitches . ’ |
| 7 | I 've had this twice and each time its been , its been other people , because his got a lot of goods people 's belongings out of one cupboard into another and the second time round there 's been purgatory because he brought Karen 's house , her hoover and the saucepans and everything that was his , everything that belonged to him but he said that before , I said why was Michelle able to jumped in between him and Karen , he said well Karen had been getting moody , and he said Karen was getting bored , Paul is boring , she 's told Paul that his boring boring . |
| 8 | You think he 's an idiot , because he gets things wrong-the background , the politics , Walter , us . |
| 9 | Because he gets coughs and splutters like . |
| 10 | ‘ He makes seating redundant because he gets fans on their feet . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't talk to my father about physics ; it 's always a mistake because he gets cross when I say silly things , but the rest of the family get cross because they ca n't understand . |
| 12 | Even then , they can lose the post for the most bizarre reasons ; Downing Street myth has it that Richard Cobb failed on his first attempt to get the Oxford Chair of Modern History because he wore bicycle clips throughout his interview . |
| 13 | Well no , no I , I , I 'd got a cycle and er the money was very useful to us cos er my husband , he worked on the , on the top of at Parcel he could n't go down , they were n't allowed underneath er because he wore glasses , anyone wearing glasses they were n't allowed underground you see and they had to work on what they call on the surface , and of course the wages were n't , were n't much and er I was glad to go out to work and er and I , I eventually I had a cycle and I used to cycle to Squires and back you know , and erm it was , it was very very useful indeed the money I , I , I earned there . |
| 14 | Mm , I do n't think so but er he 's had an awful struggle with that because he said Buckley 's one of the worse places and no interest at all |
| 15 | Clearly Luke had achieved the exorcism he had sought by making love to her and was now free to either pursue or resume a relationship with Cavell Fielding , with no danger of damage to his self-respect because he respected Cavell . |
| 16 | How dare you call the fund to raise money for your poxy magazine the Lemon Fund , just because he uses lemon on his hair ! |
| 17 | ‘ Because he killed Marius , that 's why . ’ |
| 18 | This was impossible , Engels tells us , so long as descent was reckoned in the female line , because he believed inheritance and group membership always went hand in hand . |
| 19 | Foster signed for Mike Gatting 's rebel tour of South Africa mainly because he believed knee problems would shorten his career . |
| 20 | I believed him to mean that he climbed trees not for enjoyment but because he felt danger was his natural environment . |
| 21 | The commercial manager had admitted he obtained the job ‘ because he knew Randolph 's brother ’ , and was ‘ totally out of his depth ’ . |
| 22 | A doorman at a ‘ rave ’ at Sunderland Polytechnic last year rang Lee Turner 's parents to tell them he was dying , but he refused to call an ambulance because he knew drugs were involved . |
| 23 | In repeated versions he explains laboriously that Gandalf forced Bilbo on Thorin out of some Valinorean ‘ foresight ’ ; or because he knew hobbits were stealthy ; or because he thought Bilbo had the right ‘ mix ’ of Took and Baggins ; while as for the word ‘ burglar ’ , it was all a dwarvish misunderstanding . |
| 24 | He sent me to Andrus in the early part of the night because he knew Andrus lacked women . ’ |
| 25 | It would be easier for Frank because he knew Dublin already . |
| 26 | ‘ Your railway system seemed to be having trouble with the RAF , ’ Devlin told him and lit a cigarette , mainly because he knew Himmler detested the habit . |
| 27 | That was n't the reason I gave her to David , but because she was a trained dancer and I thought she could help David get the simple steps of the minuet together , because he had difficulty in putting two steps together . |
| 28 | She claimed the King had left a suicide note for his father , saying he wanted to die because he had cancer and could not face an agonising death . |
| 29 | Because he had enemies . |
| 30 | The main reason Tony wanted me to keep an eagle-eye on his clubs was because he had Arnold 's putter in the bag . |