Example sentences of "[adv] because he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was much less eccentric , perhaps because he had transparently determined to pump me . |
| 3 | Perhaps because he spent so much of his time alone , he told me all about his wife , his two children , the home they had bought in Sanderstown , how long he had been married , where the children went to school — all the details of life in a town of about 60,000 people . |
| 4 | This was perhaps because he managed to stop Sandys sweeping the aircraft-carriers onto the junk-heap of history as he had intended to do when he first took office . |
| 5 | So , with the exception of the boy Matthew , who was marked with the same ruthless stamp as himself , he grudgingly tolerated the ‘ intruders ’ brought under his roof , and whom he had come to resent beyond reason ; perhaps because he saw in them his own failure as a family man . |
| 6 | Stalin adhered to the agreement because he wished to maintain satisfactory relations with the United States if possible and perhaps because he felt that sooner or later Korea would fall into the Soviet sphere in any case . |
| 7 | Tess seemed like a queen to Clare , perhaps because he knew that she was the most beautiful woman walking about at this time of day . |
| 8 | Upon baptism this king took the Christian name of Abraham — perhaps because he hoped to be the father of a long line of kings associated with Frankish power . |
| 9 | Henry V restored them in 1416 , perhaps because he hoped to use their local authority , which depended on the personal loyalty felt towards them , to safeguard his rear before further campaigns in France . |
| 10 | Perhaps because he did n't care for her too much , he 'd replied honestly , and told her she was right . |
| 11 | Perhaps because he did not want somebody to see him . |
| 12 | He came to me and put his arms round me and said , " I 'm terribly glad , " and from the simple way he said it I knew that against all the evidence he had believed me , perhaps because he wanted to . |
| 13 | Perhaps because he needed art so much himself , Basil never for one moment doubted the overwhelming importance of art education in the development of ordinary but real people . |
| 14 | Perhaps because he considered Nkrumah an opportunist he instructed Krishna Menon at the UN in New York to hold aloof and ‘ if pressed … vote against direct military assistance ’ . |
| 15 | A KGB operative and counterintelligence officer for 32 years , Kalugin had been forced to retire in March , apparently because he had complained to the CPSU central committee and in letters to Gorbachev about the need for fundamental reforms of the KGB . |
| 16 | He was acquitted , apparently because he had support within the royal household , and because the bishops united to reject the evidence of an inferior against one of themselves . |
| 17 | JACOB JABUNI YIDANA : a former Chief Superintendent of Police , he served an eight-year prison sentence and is now being held in administrative detention without charge or trial , apparently because he implicated his government in the 1982 murders of three High Court judges and a retired army officer . |
| 18 | But perhaps he could think of no words bad enough because he began to cry instead , loud , gasping sobs , eyes wide and streaming . |
| 19 | Wickham said they would know soon enough because he had sent someone to ask Ayling . |
| 20 | Nicholson on the other hand was taking the pretty route , basically because he had no choice ; no one was making him any offers . |
| 21 | Jordan — My world caved in when he went , basically because he wanted to better himself financially and because he thought Leeds were never going to be a force under Jimmmy Armfield . |
| 22 | Therefore , the IT in Mr Sen 's case could have allowed his claim in because he had acted on the advice of a member of IT staff . |
| 23 | Stapleton , who is almost back to full fitness after a close-season knee operation , brought Pearson in because he wanted someone who could take charge in training — and have the respect of the players . |
| 24 | When my mother met , we were met you know when we got married the solicitor had us in because he wanted us to make a will because see we did n't take the money that we got from mum . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't talk to your mother like that , ’ said Brian , merely because he felt that he should . |
| 26 | Providing the valuer had been honest and diligent , the court should be cautious before convicting him of professional negligence merely because he had failed to be the first to spot a ‘ sleeper ’ . |
| 27 | In 1763 that of Toulouse placed the Governor of Languedoc under arrest merely because he had done his duty by attempting to collect new taxation ordered by the government ; while for several years in the 1760s Brittany was convulsed by a violent conflict between its Governor , the Duc d'Aiguillon , and the Parlement of Rennes , over the same issue . |
| 28 | But was he under any duty to do more than he did merely because he knew that the money was intended ultimately to be lent by the father to the son ? |
| 29 | It is almost as if the modern mind , unable to tolerate cultural restraints , and feeling that discontent in civilization which Freud described long ago , had become so intolerant of the demands of communal existence and civilized behaviour that it saw each and every representative of those restraints as an incitement to revolt rather in the same way that an enraged revolutionary mob , thirsting for the blood of its oppressors , might fall on some unfortunate bystander merely because he happened to bear a resemblance to the head of the secret police . |
| 30 | He stood out among them not only because he had a surer command of his people at home , but also because Cuba is where it is , so the Russians helped him much more than the rest . |