Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] because [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rebuked me because I 'd apparently stepped in too quickly with the next question before he 'd finished answering the last one . |
| 2 | Like he sold it because he had a producer |
| 3 | According to Mr. Mahmoud , he admitted them because they pretended to have come on behalf of the insurers . |
| 4 | He found that Turner by 1833 was painting trees unknown to any botanist ; probably he painted them because he saw them that way ; and indeed with the help of a lens the lecturer could turn a picture of a common tree into a Turner tree for the audience to see for themselves . |
| 5 | He hated me because he had to be ashamed of me . |
| 6 | In general , however , we would stop at this point and accept as an explanation that he killed himself because he found his personal circumstances intolerable and sought to escape from them . |
| 7 | I remember how he signed it because it sounded so impressive : ‘ T. Buckland Kettering ’ . ’ |
| 8 | ( 104 ) … he did n't protest any more to say he loved her because he knew it to be untrue . |
| 9 | ‘ He slippered me because there had to be someone slippered . |
| 10 | In the second case — the more important one — he feared me because he feared himself . |
| 11 | Every one of them , he said , lost him money every year ; he kept them because he liked them , and because he had no children and could afford to indulge his old age . |
| 12 | He said that he did it because everybody wanted him to do it , and he even agreed with me that bits were like Simon and Garfunkel and it sounded like a hundred songs written before , and admitted that he was cashing in on the moon landing but thought he could make some money doing it . |
| 13 | He did it because he wanted to , because he was n't going to be her victim , and because he cared very much for Arthur . |
| 14 | It was a little Mini van that he ran around in saying it was for the band but really he had it because he thought it was ‘ a good shagging mobile ’ with just enough space in the back for ‘ entertaining ’ . |
| 15 | They were chilling words and he resented them because he felt prohibited from asking her to explain them . |
| 16 | ‘ I could n't believe he drugged me because I saw him as a caring person , he had got me into his confidence . |
| 17 | He disliked her because she had no sense of humour and was into Rudolf Steiner and spiritualism — she was a trained medium . |