Example sentences of "him because [pers pn] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a social worker felt that clients could speak more openly to him because they knew he could not recognise them in other contexts , and a counsellor reported that her clients would sometimes say that they could speak more openly knowing that she could not see them . |
| 2 | That 's why sometimes they got mad at him because they knew he was talking to them and about them and they knew that it applied to them . |
| 3 | ‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge . |
| 4 | But you were confusing him because you knew , where he 's used to just sitting there and telling blah blah blah blah and |
| 5 | But I think that was partly you floored him because you knew . |
| 6 | some corrugated mesh from work when they 've finished building and I 'm going to do around there as well to stop stop him because you know they 've got holes in the fence and he jump |
| 7 | I love the Christmas services , but I did n't argue with him because I know he means to get rid of me one way or another . |
| 8 | I did not question him because I knew he would be unable to describe what and how he felt , even if he had been willing to do so . |
| 9 | Clarissa did n't want to make too much fun of him because she knew he was serious , so she picked up her glass , filled by the waiter from the fresh bottle . |
| 10 | Because of this ritual we wondered if Madame was privy to his secret , if she knew the story , if she sat by him because she knew that O 's great self-possession and his quietness were in fact the signs of a pain which had to be kept hidden , a pain which stayed fresh and so had to be controlled every hour of the night . |
| 11 | Instantly , he sprang to his feet and suggested , in fact all but insisted , that we interview her instead of him because she knew so much more about him than he did . |
| 12 | She 'd only come to him because she knew the price Lord C would extract from her . |
| 13 | It had been bad enough lying to Piers , leaving him because she knew that she had to , however much she disliked it , but to while away her time here , doing nothing but mulling over past events , was a recipe for misery . |