Example sentences of "because he [verb] to get " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | He was called Scruffy because he loved to get dirty . |
| 3 | So as a result to that , there , there erm , there is going to be a public meeting on the tenth September , which is actually organised by the Labour party , erm , but obviously the who thing very worried about the attendance at that , erm the , have , had to organise it very quickly because he wants to get it in before the sixteenth , we 'll still trying to get erm a National speaker , I 'm hoping that Julie from the er , eh National Help Federation will be able to come , but she 's on holiday till Monday erm , I do n't . |
| 4 | ‘ Bob accepted The Changeling because he wanted to get his teeth into some really good British heavyweight drama , ’ his agent Liz Souissi tells me . |
| 5 | ‘ Only because he wanted to get his leg over . ’ |
| 6 | A fat , bombastic , pig-eyed , treacherous son of a turd who destroyed the best of men because he wanted to get between Anne Boleyn 's legs and , when he did , could n't do much about it . |
| 7 | He had left India for Egypt because he wanted to get out , not up . |
| 8 | [ Oh , by the way , when Bluff King Hal broke with Rome because he wanted to get amongst Boleyn 's petticoats , the tomb was wrecked and Richard 's corpse dumped into the River Stour . ] |
| 9 | A large Nubian slave — the Sultan had removed his tongue so he could not speak — was manhandling this fellow because he wanted to get on the roof . |
| 10 | He nodded to them and asked Luib , partly because he was interested , partly because he needed to get his breath back : ‘ How many of them will make Hearthwares ? ’ |