Example sentences of "[vb pp] because he had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Salinas government had hailed his arrest as a blow against corruption , but there was widespread speculation that Galicia was in fact being targeted because he had broken with the PRI during the 1988 elections . |
| 2 | And yes , a district general manager should 've resigned because he had an interest in the decision to go for the Trust status . |
| 3 | Despite this somewhat unstable basis the Company did quite well until 1630 when trade was dislocated by a famine in Gujerat , and in the next few years its legal position was undermined because Charles I allowed the Courteen family — whose interests in the West Indies had suffered because he had given away their rights in certain islands inadvertently — to trade with India without any regard for the Company 's charter . |
| 4 | Damien was all queer and twisted because he had thought she liked him when she did n't . |
| 5 | Would you believe that he said I 've got to work on the aeroplane this week , I 've got the week off , I 've got to work on the aeroplane , I , you know , I shall be alright , down the airfield , er on the Wednesday he arrived to see how we were getting on , complaining like made because he had n't been able to find where the cottage was , I said but I 'd left you a detailed map , |
| 6 | The judge said he had asked for the case to be re-listed because he had anxiety about the sentence he imposed . |
| 7 | This last was named because he had hung the green flag of the Irish Free State and also the red flag of Russia in the church , but a band of reactionary students from Cambridge tore them down , and eventually they were condemned as illegal by a consistory court . |
| 8 | He was sure that he was saved because he had the words of Christ and they had given him assurance . |
| 9 | When after I became a Christian I obeyed and was baptized , it was n't to make me a better person it was n't to make me er , someone who was , er more pious or more religious , or of having greater favour with God , it was done because he had commanded it in his word , and I was identifying myself with him . |
| 10 | That Merymose had died because he had discovered something important enough to threaten the killer was clear , and Huy knew that his own reluctance to take the policeman into his confidence had been one indirect reason for his death . |
| 11 | The authorities claimed that Jorge Quintana Silva was rearrested because he had contravened the conditions of his earlier release , although they did not specify how he had done this . |
| 12 | But what she hoped was that he would return before breakfast so that he would find her here , crouched lonely and exhausted on the top stair , waiting for him , frightened because he had left her alone . |
| 13 | At the Staffordshire Forest Eyre in 1271 Hugh of Evesham , another riding forester , was indicted because he had taken |
| 14 | The amount should have been reduced because he had received an advance on his wages . |
| 15 | Sugar said his main reaction was one of ‘ relief ’ that the issue had been settled because he had received such abuse from a small section of Tottenham fans . |
| 16 | The same Wordsworth , much-mocked , thought himself back to an innocent vision , told us that grass is green and water wet because he had reached beyond familiarity to some primal wonder that these things were so and not otherwise , to some mythic sense that he was giving or finding the words for the things , not merely repeating . |
| 17 | The convener who replaced Clasper , for example , at the Merseyside plant , was elected because he had stressed to the union membership that the best way he could serve their interest was to help make sure that the Merseyside plant became the most efficient plant in Europe . |
| 18 | In a statement on July 31 the IRA said that Gow had been killed because he had been central to the formulation of British government policy decisions on Northern Ireland , including those during the hunger strikes of 1980-81 and the " shoot-to-kill " operations of 1982 , and had remained a close confidant of the Prime Minister until his death . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's this wretched love business — and I still think that Kemp was killed because he had one too many fancy woman . ’ |
| 20 | Many Whigs took the line that James had been deposed because he had broken his original contract with the people . |
| 21 | The official news agency , Xinhua , stated that he had been released because he had shown repentance . |
| 22 | The man has ninety-one previous convictions , but was released because he had already spent time in jail on remand . |
| 23 | The man has ninety-one previous convictions , but was released because he had already spent time in jail on remand . |
| 24 | He 'd had ninety-one previous convictions , but was released because he had spent time in jail on remand . |
| 25 | He had spoken earnestly , some years before , about finding the right girl to marry , about not letting his head be ruled by his heart ; but come the day , he had married because he had fallen in love . |
| 26 | Darwin succeeded where earlier evolutionists had failed because he had the right solution to the problem of explaining how populations actually change in response to environmental pressure . |