Example sentences of "not because he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had the cheek to say he ought to cancel meetings only because of ill-health or for work opportunities , not because he 'd decided to go out with someone else . |
| 2 | Not because he 'd been provoked or excited ; on the contrary , it had happened because he 'd allowed himself to relax , to lessen his control and to become open and vulnerable . |
| 3 | That 's why your father rode home in the carriage , not because he 'd been drinking , as people thought . ’ |
| 4 | He spoke not because he felt that the denomination was threatened or was losing ground but because the status quo did not give Congregationalism the dignity its growing wealth and membership had earned for it . |
| 5 | She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead . |
| 6 | He had desired to go to his homesite just once , not because he expected his parents to greet him with pleasure — he knew they would long ago have forgotten him in the act of rearing many other young even if they were still alive — but because it was there he had first been caught . |
| 7 | The Russian race , on which the competitors were accommodated on a train following the race route , proved to be a harrowing experience for Zarei , but not because he had been doing too much running . |
| 8 | Two of them — Iris Murdoch and William Golding — are said to have composed a good deal of fiction before succeeding at last with a publisher ; succeeding , as Golding once remarked , not because he had tried to please but because for once he stopped trying and wrote the book he had always wanted to write . |
| 9 | This was not because he had any interest in values realized in animal life , but because he believed that some degree of goodness pertained to things or states of affairs which do not involve consciousness of any kind . |
| 10 | If then his actions simply accorded with what was the convention of his society , this was not because he had so to act , or failed to see that a certain convention was socially limited . |
| 11 | Byles J. thought that he had not because he had made no such request . |
| 12 | The urge to do just that was almost overpowering , but he wanted Isabel to come to him willingly , not because he had taken advantage of her innocence . |
| 13 | But the flinch was not because he had touched a tender spot on her neck . |
| 14 | Rachel could see the reasoning behind that , but nevertheless felt angry towards Damian Flint — not because he had so obviously done the right thing , but because he was so clearly in complete control of a situation that had always been beyond Rachel . |
| 15 | He promised the Turks assistance not because he wished to establish a protectorate over them , but because he wanted their regime to survive and Britain had been unable to assist them . |
| 16 | For some reason , Belgion had resented this observation , not because he thought it untrue but because he claimed to have said it first . |
| 17 | He said this , not because he thought it was likely she would tire herself , but because he was aware of a certain lack of sympathy in his own nature and tried , conscientiously , to redress it by saying the things other people said . |
| 18 | Not because he carried that coffin but because the people on his side are ravaged , their nerve ends are torn raw , and if he |
| 19 | Buildings , also , seldom appear in his paintings but this was not because he lacked the ability as his etchings show . |
| 20 | If Euripides brought the spectator onto the stage , it was not because he enjoyed popular favour in his lifetime . |
| 21 | He had ordered the strengthening of Dunbar Castle , thirty miles north of Berwick ; why , if not because he intended to use it as his base against Lothian and this Edinburgh ? |
| 22 | Perhaps the most significant intellectual advance of the mid-20th century was indeed made by Karl Popper , not because he provided any kind of method for scientists to pursue ( as he decidedly did not ) but because he showed for the first time in formal philosophy , that science is inescapably a human activity , and that if its underlying human-ness is ever shelved it is only temporarily , and for convenience , to ameliorate human frailty . |
| 23 | It was a difficult move , he admits , not because he did not want to leave Scotland ‘ if you 're happy , it does n't matter where you are , and if you 're unhappy it does n't matter where you are ’ — but because ‘ a Scotsman coming to London to run the national firm is n't everybody 's cup of tea ’ . |
| 24 | He was upset because she was upset , not because he did n't like her . |
| 25 | Not because he did n't have faith in his own production . |
| 26 | Not because he did n't love her any more , it 's cos he 's having this fling with this Diane . |
| 27 | ‘ Not because he liked me . |
| 28 | He had been better able to tolerate it ten years ago , but then he had drunk alcohol to be like other people and to impress , not because he liked it . |
| 29 | He did it not because he liked people that night but to make a moral point about something or other . |
| 30 | He noticed Schellenberg the moment he entered , not because he recognized him , only the kind of man he was . |