Example sentences of "[noun] because his " in BNC.
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| 1 | BIRD 'S CUSTARD : In 1837 , Alfred Bird hit on the formula for Bird 's custard because his wife had digestive troubles and could not tolerate eggs . |
| 2 | Edith Sitwell had wanted to sue a reviewer because his notice was likely to hurt the sales of her book — and we thought it had merely been his duty to his readers to discourage them from buying a book that he thought bad . |
| 3 | Mr Richardson , whose home was on The Promenade , Llanfairfechan , had been at the Old Court for six months because his wife was in hospital . |
| 4 | The miller 's day was dictated by the movements of the tides because his source of power would only be available for short periods of two or three hours at a time . |
| 5 | However , Great Ayton members wo n't miss out on the deal because his appearance there has been rescheduled for Sunday , March 1 . |
| 6 | The tins were hidden behind a shelf of books because his landlady forbade cooking in the room , apart from kettle-boiling . |
| 7 | Police heard their dying screams because his eight-year-old daughter Clare had dialled 999 and left the line open . |
| 8 | He returned home from the Falklands because his crew could stand no more of the Antarctic . |
| 9 | The Kievan prince Vladimir chose the Greek version of Christianity over Islam and Roman Catholicism because his ambassadors reported that the Greek ceremony was the most beautiful . |
| 10 | He pushed his bicycle up the hill from Wheatley station in the company of another new student who had a strangely similar background : of nonconformist origins , with his father an official of a nonconformist Church ; a young man who postponed his own confirmation into the Church of England because his parents might be hurt ; and who swung at the university from his very Protestant background into a sense of the devotional stature in Anglo-Catholicism , and into convictions which never left him for the rest of his life ; a graduate of Balliol College , by name Austin Farrer . |
| 11 | Previously he had been elected chairman of the Falkland Islands Committee because his determination to keep the Falklands British was such a boost to the morale of the islanders . |
| 12 | I 'll tell you why he 's probably not going to be on the mar market committee because his daughter had a |
| 13 | This is a pity because his book was one of the most interesting textbooks I have read for a long time . |
| 14 | In the middle of 1988 he was placed with foster parents because his mother was finding difficulties with him . |
| 15 | Dr Asvat had refused to treat the boy because his condition was too serious . |
| 16 | The Crown Prosecution Service is to prepare a report on the case of a man cleared of raping a 16-year-old girl because his alleged victim was not considered mentally capable of giving evidence . |
| 17 | The plot is the most extravagantly and sentimentally romantic it would be possible to imagine , the story of brave , generous , broken-hearted Cyrano , who loves but can never win the girl because his nose is so grotesquely large . |
| 18 | We had indeed , and Denis was in a filthy mood because his motorbike had died on him on the way into Cambridge and he had had to push it five miles back — and he had been taking his temper out on me ever since lunchtime . |
| 19 | but I do n't think it 's really worth worrying too much about whether he 's fascist or communist because erm the only reason really there 's only link between him and Russia and the play is A is the opposite of America , in other words George and B because his name Khrushchev which links it to the leader of the er |
| 20 | No one asked that question , they simply focused upon er the , the communist insurrection in the south and the American , American commitment to the global containment of communism meant that they had to go and do something about it and domestic political pressures were there too er President Kennedy came out of the Cuban missiles crisis a hero because his people mistakenly believed that he 'd won a foreign policy success and that he 'd acted in a restrained and statesmanlike manor . |
| 21 | The little boy had gone over to his granny because his nose was running . |
| 22 | Juliet answered irritably , ‘ Everyone seems to assume I go out with Nigel because his family 's wealthy . |
| 23 | ‘ On the night your son disappeared Matthew was late getting back from Penzance because his van broke down . ’ |
| 24 | And Cecil now suggests that Tenby may have been short of oxygen because his tongue was over his bit . |
| 25 | He had fled to London in 1828 after the Catholic emancipation bill had been passed , forced to leave his beloved Ireland because his Catholic fervour had led him to kill a Protestant in an argument during the celebrations . |
| 26 | Yet at the age of forty he still regarded himself a failure because his mother had projected on to him her anxieties to such an extent that he never felt he matched up to her expectation of him . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're back , ’ she realised superfluously , her defences not yet in place because his presence was so unexpected . |
| 28 | It has to be at Downes 's place : Kemp has n't got a room in college , and it ca n't be at Kemp 's place because his wife is a house-bound invalid . |
| 29 | who knows no shame because his actions are true , |
| 30 | He had made the mistake of going via Salisbury because his bride of six months , who was twenty years younger than him , wanted to look at the cathedral . |