Example sentences of "because he have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe it was because he had gone to a private high school . |
| 2 | It was not , as people might think , he said , because he had gone to Merchiston . |
| 3 | They were afraid that he would be unhappy about their success , because he had wanted to be a writer himself . |
| 4 | The 77-year-old Cranston , who had resigned as majority whip in 1990 and had dropped plans to seek re-election in 1992 on grounds of ill-health , was treated more severely because he had received by far the largest contributions and , unlike the others , had actively solicited funds . |
| 5 | He was awarded compensation of just over £900 which was reduced by one-quarter because he had contributed to his own misfortune . |
| 6 | They are recalled as somewhat sad , dependent figures : a ‘ poor old fellow ’ who went out to his sister for his meals ; ‘ a right cripple ’ who had been unable to work for over ten years ; ‘ a very old gentleman ’ who scraped together a living by selling vegetables and tomatoes which he grew in his greenhouse , but was ‘ very unhappy ’ because he had quarrelled with his drunken son . |
| 7 | Edward IV himself was reputedly disappointed by the turn out , probably because he had hoped for the backing of the Percy connection , which the restored earl of Northumberland proved unable to mobilize . |
| 8 | Edward IV himself was reputedly disappointed by the turn out , probably because he had hoped for the backing of the Percy connection , which the restored earl of Northumberland proved unable to mobilize . |
| 9 | Dennis Mitchell , an intelligence officer at GCHQ for 32 years , was compelled to take early retirement because he had argued against the introduction of polygraph tests and the removal of rights of employees to go to industrial tribunals . |
| 10 | For Christ 's Hospital he designed the new grammar school ( 1793 , demolished ) — receiving a gratuity of 100 guineas ‘ for his great attention during the building ’ because he had charged at a rate of only 2½ per cent instead of the usual 5 per cent — and additions to the school in Hertford ( 1800 ) , and also made designs for various ambitious unexecuted schemes for redeveloping the main buildings . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Ted , fortunately , was fluent in ( Belgian ) French because he had flown as a pilot for Sabena for many years and was , I believe , highly thought of by our French colleagues . |
| 15 | Because he had prayed with a pure heart throughout the night , a tendril from the God-Emperor was now nudging him like a guardian spirit . |
| 16 | He also asked her to keep an eye on his widow because he had heard about the carrying-on with the women-folk . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He had pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges which each carried maximum sentences of one year in prison and $100,000 in fines , but he had been treated leniently because he had co-operated with independent prosecutor Lawrence E. Walsh , whose Iran-contra investigation was in its final stages . |
| 19 | Because he had refused to be paid she could n't ask him to come back again to deal with the seepage . |
| 20 | He told her that he thought Terry was a prisoner of war because he had spoken to men who had returned from his Company . |
| 21 | She thought he was a hard man because he had spoken of the sturdy beggars as no better than wolves to be strung up on trees as a warning to others ; he certainly had not helped her to escape out of pity . |
| 22 | The primitive ceremony which came soonest to Eliot 's mind , whether in his ‘ Beating of a Drum ’ or in 1926 when he spoke of savages who ‘ believe that the ritual is performed in order to induce a fall of rain' , was rain-making , probably because he had read about it for his 1913 seminar paper . |
| 23 | Arthur told the lordly one that it was to be sent to Mr and Mrs Stokes , but Fred knew whom it was tacitly meant for , because he had read in newspaper gossip columns about dukes laying down pipes of port when heirs were born . |
| 24 | At that time , and erm she had n't known anything about it , because he had looked after the benefit , and she thought he 'd been paying the rent . |
| 25 | And then he was doubly frightened , because he had known without seeing the face or hearing the voice , from small familiarities of feel and smell . |
| 26 | If they had known , people might have said he was a reformed character , but nobody had known much about his bad ways because he had worked on his own . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | On one occasion he went to Dundee where the promoter knocked down his purse from £4 to £2. 10s. because he had come on his motor bike rather than on the train . |
| 30 | He said that was because he had come in too late . |