Example sentences of "because his [noun sg] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Richardson , whose home was on The Promenade , Llanfairfechan , had been at the Old Court for six months because his wife was in hospital . |
| 2 | Technically the appeal against the decision of Potts J. is interlocutory because decided on an application by the defendants to strike out the claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action , while the appeal against the decision of Phillips J. is a final appeal because his decision was on a question directed by consent to be tried as a preliminary issue . |
| 3 | With an interpreter we met for a drink and he told me that because his home was in East Germany he had been forbidden to travel abroad until quite recently when he became an old-age Pensioner ; this voyage was his first taste of freedom . |
| 4 | William could see the village where they lived and the smoke from the fires rising straight up into the air and the dark tower of the church rising above a cluster of stark trees , and because he was nervous he wanted to work his way in that direction , so it would not be so far to run , but because his father was beside him , smiling his reassuring smile , he did n't . |
| 5 | Louise had her clothes made for her : not by one of the grand West End couturiers such as Hartnell or Lachasse , whose prices were far beyond her , but by Paul de Levantiére , a Belgian who , because his salon was in unfashionable Chelsea , charged much less . |
| 6 | Delight because it brought her close to him when the cottage was empty — despair because his talent was in his hands rather than in his composing ability . |
| 7 | And Cecil now suggests that Tenby may have been short of oxygen because his tongue was over his bit . |
| 8 | And he boobed when he sneaked off to an isolated toilet for a crafty fag — because his foreman was in the next cubicle . |
| 9 | Well , she said , right , she said , er , he ca n't cash that cheque because his account 's in Ireland , so can you get him out the cash instead . |