Example sentences of "[be] because he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could only have been because he read his poetry . |
| 2 | This might have been because he 'd been kept in an aviary and not given enough exercise , and i felt sure I could put that right . |
| 3 | This may have been because he defined " help " to himself as a putting right of something that had gone wrong , a restoration of some earlier , good " normal " state , and he was not sure that such a state had existed or could exist . |
| 4 | That , however , would be because he had no other remedy . |
| 5 | This must be because he did not know any observations of it : Darwin was interested by every possible form of moral behaviour in animals , and if he had known of restrained fighting , he would have written about it . |
| 6 | Why I asked him is because he had a wedding invitation for Rob and Jen |
| 7 | This is because he asked from the people a level of commitment that meant even in peacetime they were subjected to strict rule . |
| 8 | This is because he broke his watch in the process and handed the busted bits to photographer Pennie Smith . |
| 9 | Few things seem to have been left out , but this is because he based his work squarely on such useful volumes as Michael Darby 's The Islamic Perspective and A. St Clair 's The Image of the Turk in Europe , and a large number of other texts besides . |
| 10 | I think it 's because he got it he did n't want people to see him . |
| 11 | A school had only to ask and he would talk to the boys and girls , and dozens of boys came to King 's because he had met them in a train or at school . |
| 12 | and that 's a bargain , and se you know these reps would come round selling this that and the other and if , you could only see samples after , would n't touch it with a barge pole like you know , yeah I 'll have that , that 's all but that 's because he had a good grounding |
| 13 | ‘ He says it 's because he volunteered when he was too young and now he 's been pestering them , but I 've been pestering all three services and got nowhere . ’ |
| 14 | Walter Robins told him it was because he antagonised the fasties by doffing his cap after evading a bouncer ( Randall used to infuriate Lillee in this way ) ; Barrington , though , was only being his naturally jolly self . |
| 15 | Possibly this was because he distrusted the enthusiasm , sometimes pushed to excessive lengths , which some agnostics felt for the church ( for example their defence of Cranmer 's Prayer Book ) , and Hardy 's enthusiasm amounted almost to love . |
| 16 | If he disliked Shakespeare , other than in joke , it was because he thought Shakespeare ( a true poet with a deep tap-root into old English stories and traditions ) had too often neglected that root for later and sillier interests . |
| 17 | In Laverty [ 1970 ] 3 All ER 432 ( CA ) the reason why the victim bought a stolen car was because he thought the accused was authorised to sell it , not in reliance on the fact that it did not have its original number-plates . |
| 18 | He had felt the need , though , to take into account the super-sensitive relations between these two teams , and if the biggest surprise was that he had addressed gentle caution to the English management as well , they having been innocent , faraway onlookers during the shenanigans , it was because he recognised that they too nursed feelings of exasperation and he imagined that they might soon have burst uncontrollably into flames . |
| 19 | It was because he saw public opinion , more than the state , as a threat to individual liberty that he had such apprehensions about the trend towards democracy . |
| 20 | It was because he saw them as offering more regular and more worthwhile employment for children than could be found in the agricultural districts , with only seasonal and low-paid needs , that Defoe praised the woollen areas . |
| 21 | It was because he told me he had seen a woman more beautiful than me , and said that if I wanted him as a husband , I must marry him at once ! |
| 22 | It was because he fucked her at the beginning of her blood , she said . |
| 23 | We may now understand better , too , why my father was so fond of the story of the butler who failed to panic on discovering a tiger under the dining table ; it was because he knew instinctively that somewhere in this story lay the kernel of what true ‘ dignity ’ is . |
| 24 | I did not ask him why , but I sensed that it was because he knew the culprit . |
| 25 | He chose not to , not because he was n't enjoying it , he loved it , but he chose not to because he knew he would lose and part of the reason knew he would lose was because he sacked Douglas MacArthur . |
| 26 | I ca n't help thinking that a lot of it was because he felt trapped . |
| 27 | If he was not popular now , it was because he ordered most of his provisions from Athens . |
| 28 | If he ended up with a taste for feudalism and aristocracy it was because he believed that the old paternalism was better than the inhuman gulf between ‘ classes ’ — ‘ One would wish to see the rich mingle with the poor as much as may be upon a footing of fraternal equality . ’ |
| 29 | His diffidence with secondary art teachers , he intimated , was because he believed that these folk had had longer formal training and more paper qualifications than himself . |
| 30 | If Marryat made this choice , it was because he wrote from within the experience of many years serving in the navy from 1806 , not continuously but when employment was available : more than one of his novels was written in the cabin of a ship under his command . |