Example sentences of "because he [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got to know after a time that he ad-libbed because he got bored with his lines . |
| 2 | It 's only way you can get over erm tragedy I should say when he married quick because he got another compan for the life he locks himself inside er walls , you never even |
| 3 | ‘ Because he got worried about what they were planning — all those cranky academics Hauser employs . |
| 4 | Edmund was lucky because he got this chance to do a university you see in |
| 5 | was the best because he got wicked . |
| 6 | Howard has now become scrupulous about washing his socks in fairly hot soapy water ( they can not be washed in extremely hot water because he favours woollen socks , though cotton would be preferable ) and regularly airing his boots . |
| 7 | Senator Ricardo may enact such a bill so as to increase his chance of re-election , or he may oppose it because he favours public spending on ideological grounds . |
| 8 | Only last week Davis scored a course record 65 at Knebworth ( unoffical because he enjoyed preferred lies ) to win the Hertfordshire boys ' title at the expense of Hamilton , who also lost out to Davis in 1991 . |
| 9 | He liked producing plays because he enjoyed creative work , and he was good as a leader and director . |
| 10 | If Euripides brought the spectator onto the stage , it was not because he enjoyed popular favour in his lifetime . |
| 11 | He may have acted in this way because the dog was worrying sheep , or because he wanted to annoy the dog 's owner , or simply because he despises all alsatians . |
| 12 | Noboru Takeshita had to go because he received undeclared sums of money from the Recruit publishing-to-property conglomerate . |
| 13 | She said when you came and I rang to confirm it all she said you 're very lucky because he agreed thirteen pounds and we do n't do it for under fifteen pounds now . |
| 14 | and back , because he does that every year , you do n't hear it in the winter , it 's every summer he starts , he starts |
| 15 | His rehabilitation — from the leader they could not wait to get rid of because he represented high taxes , inflation and military failure ( over Iran ) , to the president everyone loves to cite as the model elder statesman -has been remarkable . |
| 16 | Livingstone frequently seemed oblivious of his wife 's sufferings , perhaps because he walked thousands of miles and endured fever , dysentery , near starvation , assaults by hostile tribes and was attacked by a lion . |
| 17 | ‘ Liza Jane ’ and ‘ Pity the Fool ’ were released at the time we joined him because he brought this record along and said , ‘ What do you think of this ? ’ |
| 18 | I can tell when he is having a hypo because he gets disorientated and confused . |
| 19 | At parties he does not join in and he gets very upset when you try to do anything with him because he gets frustrated . ’ |
| 20 | A CLEVELAND pensioner may have died because he wore dark clothing , an inquest heard . |
| 21 | ‘ Burun 's a great fighter because he diverts all his sexual energies into fighting and giving orders . ’ |
| 22 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 23 | he said because he said half the |
| 24 | Well I said to Derek , look at our tiles , you see , and he said that 's unfair because he said these are n't , what ? |
| 25 | Triple sex killer Westley Dodd , 31 , has chosen the gruesome method because he hanged one of his young victims . |
| 26 | Hall ( 1987 ) , for example — possibly because he uses different definitions and sample size — presents a somewhat contrasting picture . |
| 27 | It was also important for him because he believed that matriliny , the reckoning of group membership in terms of who one 's mother was , was associated with a high status for women . |
| 28 | Because he felt uncomfortable about how the services operated and how to use them , he therefore limited his use of them . |
| 29 | In the thirties , my father had been a painter and decorator , plumber , electrician , publican and boxer , but when I was growing up , he was a Spiritualist and a faith healer , talking about his negro spirit-guide , Massa , and explaining how he knew when people were cured because he felt burning coals in the palms of his hands . |
| 30 | When he sat down he said , because he felt guilty , ‘ I thought it 'd be an adventure for Henrietta . ’ |