Example sentences of "because he [vb mod] n't [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He hates us because he ca n't love us .
2 In a small number of cases the defendant will have deliberately driven without a licence because he ca n't pass a test ; he is a visitor to Britain and because he has been granted leave to stay , he now requires a licence etc. , i.e. within 12 months for a visitor .
3 I would agree that the scientist being is probably is constant withdrawal from his because he ca n't cope with what 's going on around him , whilst he is in his scientific research .
4 Obviously you need to take your horse 's temperament and your surroundings into account , but if you can get him working alone as soon as possible you are less likely to have to cope with him napping later on because he ca n't bear to leave his friends .
5 He asked me to tell you , I think because he ca n't bear to talk about it .
6 Your turn again because he ca n't go .
7 But he smiles back — of course — because he ca n't do anything else for he is ill at ease , they are ill at ease and they all drown in smiles that suffocate .
8 ‘ He saw things before anyone else and that must be one of most frustrating things for him as a manager , because he ca n't do anything about it now .
9 He dreams he is sitting at the wheel of his car at the traffic lights , unable to drive off because he ca n't decide whether to kiss Rose when he arrives , or whether to ask her for a cheese and chutney sandwich instead , or where to go for his holidays .
10 In particular , Piaget claims that young children tend to give psychological explanations — known as psychologizing — for physical and logical phenomena , such as : 6 Half nine is not four , because he ca n't count .
11 Salesman George Anderson , a classmate in high school , can recall a conversation about him , when Jack told him , ‘ I saw my father yesterday ’ — as if it was an event to be noted — ‘ the poor old guy , I feel sorry for him because he ca n't help it . ’
12 A hotelier has had to recruit chefs and waiters from France because he ca n't find anyone suitable here .
13 daft anyway and nine times out of ten you 've got to look at him and speak to him and that because he ca n't understand and er bloke gave him the verbal .
14 There 's nothing he can do but hope because he ca n't put 30-year-old heads on young shoulders .
15 It 's no good him taking the bridge down out now , because he ca n't put the wall ca n't really re-brick there now much too wet !
16 ‘ The River Rat ! ’ he boomed , laughing heartily at his own joke , ‘ never takes his hat off because he 's BALD and never puts his boat in the river because he CA N'T SAIL ! ’
17 Alright here we go then , here 's Anthony 's see saw marjory door , Johnny shall have a new master , he shall have but a penny a day , because he ca n't work any faster and Charlotte is , let's have a look then hey diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle
18 There is no reason for anyone to be concerned about the ram 's ability to work because he ca n't get around his ewes .
19 ‘ A Ta-Ta-Ta-Ta … because he ca n't get the word Titleist out .
20 ‘ There 's something in one of Kipling 's stories about a fellow who says he knows his soul 's gone rotten because he ca n't get drunk any more .
21 So we begin to put pressure on the child , and the child reacts because he ca n't appreciate what we 're trying to get across to him , and so we get a sort of stalemate situation , where the teacher , be it a professional teacher or a parent , is pressurizing the child to understand something which appears quite simplistic , and the child is responding quite deadly , because he can not focus , he can not conceptualize , what is to us a very simple concept .
22 Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position .
23 Not because he ca n't live without her ( he has a new life , new partner and new home ) but because he has to know what happened .
24 Not because he ca n't live without her ( he has a new life , new partner and new home ) but because he has to know what happened .
25 An award winning scientist paralysed by a wasting disease may be forced to give up his research … because he ca n't afford to pay for the round-the-clock nursing he needs .
26 has took his contract over because he ca n't afford to put more of them , mm
27 She said he 's most upset because he ca n't drive any more , erm
28 Because he ca n't hear nothing stupid .
29 Now he 's overtaking because he ca n't see but nevertheless Look at the gap there .
30 He wears glasses because he ca n't see clearly .
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