Example sentences of "[noun pl] because he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had his cigarette firmly between his lips because he did n't want it falling on the floor , or worse , on to the track . |
| 2 | Furse concentrated on the public schools because he believed , like almost everyone else , that they provided an appropriate training in character for future rulers of native races . |
| 3 | In the other case the husband of a client asked to have the support worker withdrawn after four months because he felt that his wife suspected him of having an affair with the support worker . |
| 4 | But magistrate Maurice McHugh bound over five of the soldiers to keep the peace for 18 months because he felt they were not entirely innocent . |
| 5 | He preferred to visit this famous spa town during those months because he felt reasonably confident that his shoulders would rub against aristocracy rather than artisans . |
| 6 | He wanted an assurance that the Dardanelles would remain closed to warships because he feared the possibility of a British or French attack on the southern part of the Russian Empire . |
| 7 | He obviously misses the lads because he got on so well with them . ’ |
| 8 | There were white lines in the brown flesh at the side of his eyes because he smiled so much . |
| 9 | A glint of panic flashed in the boy 's eyes because he did not speak English very well . |
| 10 | He disliked the arriviste Jews because he felt that they were provincial and superstitious and liable to arouse hostility ; nor did he believe that they would be loyal to France . |
| 11 | Rosie , opening the mail , a task she no longer enjoyed , said it was impossible for Tavett to be guilty of sending the knives because he had been as upset as she was when one fell on his desk . |
| 12 | I first knew it unmistakably when Herr Sussmeyer replied to my first letter , saying he had this quest for pubic hairs because he loved and respected women so much . |
| 13 | Komarek said on April 9 that Reichel had been relieved of his posts because he wanted to concentrate on election work for the Czechoslovakian People 's Party , of which he was a member . |
| 14 | Miller had evidently criticised Bartram 's long descriptions because he replied : |
| 15 | Minton 's sharpest critic was David Sylvester who , having admired his Painter and Model at the Contemporary Art Society exhibition earlier that year , damned the portraits at the Lefevre for their lack of reality ; Minton , he argued , had not come to grips with appearances because he had failed to detach his faculties of observation from his interest in the sitters ' personalities . |
| 16 | He was posted first to the Artillery , but then transferred to the Royal Engineers because he had a driving licence . |
| 17 | He did not tell his parents because he knew they would try to change his mind but he confided in a colleague at work . |
| 18 | He had been through it before and had already told the Captain he was sure that was the car , though he had n't looked at the driver and front passenger , having been distracted by the map and by watching the traffic coming from all three directions because he wanted to cross over . |
| 19 | When we had finally retrieved all his excess baggage , it took us even longer than in Mexico to clear customs because he insisted on unrolling a big holdall right there on the bench to get at his oilskins . |
| 20 | I 've , I 've never ever known him to iron anything ever since I 've been you know , little , I 've never seen him iron anything but me mum was in fits because he 'd even ironed the socks so she said she did n't have the heart to tell him that she does n't usually bother with the ruddy socks , but er the thought was there was n't it ? |
| 21 | The father of one family had no contact with their Irish Catholic grandparents because he had married a Protestant — although he did later inherit one of the grandfather 's pawnshops . |
| 22 | Then , just as she was thinking she had better sound battle stations because he did n't look best pleased by what he saw , he suggested affably , ‘ Come on in , take a seat , ’ and indicated a chair at the other side of his desk . |
| 23 | Travis might be going to pieces because he thought Rosemary had finished with him , but , all too clearly , he did n't deep down believe that they were through . |
| 24 | He went to funerals because he liked to think of people being dead in coffins . |
| 25 | After Darren was born , he had to stay in hospital an extra ten days because he suffered from epileptic fits . |
| 26 | The fact was that Charles gave up shooting for a few years because he had simply grown bored with it : it was too easy to blast away overfed birds frightened into the air by a band of beaters . |
| 27 | He quit after four and a half years because he feared he would get tagged as a soap star . |
| 28 | Hopper thought he was another Dean , and then became outcast from Hollywood within three years because he acquired a reputation for being a mean-like perfectionist . |
| 29 | A SCHOOLBOY computer hacker broke into British Telecom 's networks because he felt the phone giant was ‘ damn stupid ’ and ‘ greedy ’ , a court heard today . |
| 30 | You need one of those slave-driving old studio bosses if you ask me , not a sensitive graduate who went into movies because he liked the clouds in Antonioni and then turned himself into a nouvelle vague Deutscher all hot for Truthspiel . |