Example sentences of "because he [is] " in BNC.

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1 He wears the hat because he 's bald ! ’
2 Instead of striking my face and grieving aloud because my hymen was no longer intact , I wondered , ‘ Is it because he 's an Englishman that he does n't feel proud he 's taken my virginity , or is he frightened that now I 'll try to force him to marry me ? ’
3 He 'll want you to know because he 's nothing to hide .
4 The guy says he was in a hurry to get home because he has to get up at six tomorrow morning because he 's donating some of his bone marrow so that his sister can have a bone marrow transplant …
5 Getting to know the other , who 's supposed to be wicked because he 's the enemy , makes possible not only battle itself but also close bodily contact between the combatants and between their beliefs .
6 My son usually has the upper hand because he 's older .
7 It is interesting to note that the ‘ pope ’ — as the kids called Fermi — ‘ because he 's always right ’ , was only seven years older than Amaldi .
8 But he 's not allowed into the Labour Party because he 's not a union member .
9 There are , however , clear attempts to make us giggle , like when the Swamp Thing ( Dick Durock ) conceives a passion for Heather Locklear 's leading lady but tells her that he ca n't give her the love she wants because he 's a plant .
10 He ca n't grow , as an artist or a person , because he 's addicted to his own neurosis , addicted to poignancy — Which is , after all , the sublime taste of your own defeat , your own incompleteness .
11 Sure it started out lukewarm , but once people saw him they went crazy , and by the end of the given tour , he had a totally devoted following because he 's a brilliant performer .
12 ‘ I think it 's a sin to answer a doctor back , ’ he says , because he 's angry and wants to shout at me , at anyone .
13 ‘ He went far because he 's so correct he never upset anybody , ’ was the general opinion she heard later .
14 ‘ 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 ! ’
15 Because he 's laughing .
16 Just because he 's my husband .
17 It 's not because he 's Italian , she 's not a racist , she slices our legs off as well if we 're not careful .
18 He treats his actors as equals , and if he ask you a question , it 's because he wants an answer — not because he 's testing you . ’
19 If he 's been largely absent from the small screen for the last two years ( the South Bank Show spoof , Norbert Smith , was a revamp of an old idea ) , that 's because he 's unplugged the phone , taken time out with his two old drinking pals and got down to the serious business of mucking about .
20 You can not , for instance , turn someone into a surfing champion just because he 's at the seaside , but if it turns out that he has a genuine interest in fishing and some skills as a fisherman you can centre pictures and film on that .
21 That 's to say , it 's natural for the male to be more aggressive because he 's the one who has to penetrate .
22 He 's going to make you hard and tough just like him — but never as good as him of course , because he 's in charge .
23 ‘ He does n't know what goes on here , because he 's always away .
24 ‘ This is his sort of course because he 's a grinder , ’ who succeeded Faldo as champion .
25 Sir , ’ I add because he 's looking a bit explosive .
26 But , while the legislators ponder on ‘ the rights and freedoms of the individual ’ ( is that the right to throw your Alsatian out onto the motorway because he 's grown too big to handle ? ) we are all left to contemplate statistics like 1000 stray dogs put down daily by the RSPCA , or 58,000 road accidents ( many involving death and serious injury ) caused by stray dogs .
27 ‘ We have a name for him at home — ‘ The Joker ’ , because he 's a tremendous personality who loves a leg-pull .
28 When you have got the needle in , it 's a battle to get the syringe on , and then it 's difficult to get any blood out of him because he 's so tense . ’
29 Terrorising and plunder , all by Mamelukes , and all countenanced by the Sultan because he 's afraid of ‘ em .
30 I usually work him in for an hour , but when I 'm riding him around in the arena before the bell goes , I 'm still thinking , ‘ How on earth am I going to get this thing up the centre line ? ’ because he 's gawping at everything , but then I give him a jolly good boot and we get on with it … ’
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