Example sentences of "[noun] because he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was actually astonished to find Mill making exactly this argument against another proposal in erm a later chapter because he considers a possibility and some people have put forward the view apparently , I have n't heard of this , erm in the version that Mill discusses , that the two stage action where we vote for people who then go to vote for the members of parliament so the individual people do n't vote directly for members of parliament but they vote for people who then have elections an election among themselves . |
| 2 | He had his cigarette firmly between his lips because he did n't want it falling on the floor , or worse , on to the track . |
| 3 | A little later , another customer complained about the employee because he had started a relationship with the customer 's wife . |
| 4 | I do not know of any Hellenistic evidence to show that a Gentile became a Jew or a sympathizer because he had read the Bible . |
| 5 | Furse concentrated on the public schools because he believed , like almost everyone else , that they provided an appropriate training in character for future rulers of native races . |
| 6 | Mr Baker appointed him without interview because he had been impressed by Professor Stubbs 's publications on the importance of knowledge about language . |
| 7 | In the other case the husband of a client asked to have the support worker withdrawn after four months because he felt that his wife suspected him of having an affair with the support worker . |
| 8 | But magistrate Maurice McHugh bound over five of the soldiers to keep the peace for 18 months because he felt they were not entirely innocent . |
| 9 | He preferred to visit this famous spa town during those months because he felt reasonably confident that his shoulders would rub against aristocracy rather than artisans . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's had a tough 18 months because he has n't played much football , but he will be very good for us and will get better . |
| 11 | He wanted an assurance that the Dardanelles would remain closed to warships because he feared the possibility of a British or French attack on the southern part of the Russian Empire . |
| 12 | As a teenager he had been attracted to hear Paisley because he shared his evangelical religion . |
| 13 | He read Johnson 's Dictionary because he felt ( from Flaubert ) that he needed ‘ a scientific and accurate vocabulary ’ and , when further stimulated by Marius , he asked Helen to read his recent papers aloud to discover if the ‘ sounds jar ’ . |
| 14 | So he said er I 've got ta buy erm Paul a new lock because he 's got a big padlock and |
| 15 | ‘ It meant a lot of work for the Director preparing his camera script because he had to know exactly where to put his cameras to get the shots he wanted . |
| 16 | Equally , Sigibert and Guntram may have been opposed to Gundovald because he threatened their own positions . |
| 17 | ‘ He was shot in cold blood because he knew too much and was about to blow the whistle , ’ a detective said . |
| 18 | A GUNMAN slaughtered six people in cold blood because he had been evicted . |
| 19 | It was my blood because he had given me mouth to mouth resuscitation . |
| 20 | Well he , he 's on himself hanging over his car because he said it 's , it 's , that it was an inconvenience cos they were late for work , he suppose to be getting a taxi into work every day and back , but where 's his proof that he did ? |
| 21 | He had to stop the car because he had . |
| 22 | Private Barry Aindow ( 23 ) said he fired at the car because he feared his colleagues ' lives were in danger . |
| 23 | Explanations in the intentional mode express the relation between the action and the reason ( e.g. , John wound up the car because he wanted it to go ) . |
| 24 | John wound up the toy car because he wanted it to go . |
| 25 | As he does so he stops the car because he sees water in the road which is coming from a site on the left hand side . |
| 26 | As it turned out , Jimmy raced his carburettor car because he preferred it , and led until the Climax blew up . |
| 27 | Darwin introduced a new element into the equation because he started not from the fossil record but from field studies , which forced him to consider the real-life pressures acting upon species in the course of geological time . |
| 28 | A Director will cast this type of actress because he knows that is the kind of personality he wants brought out in this character , and he can rely on that actress to give just such a performance . |
| 29 | He allowed her to walk across to the counter for a cup of tea because he felt she was flustered , not an emotion one easily associated with Sergeant Henley , and it might settle her down . |
| 30 | ‘ Nearly a fortnight ’ , he complained , was spent in Sydney organising his journey to the other side of the Liverpool Range — that remote and tantalising region that had eluded him on his first visit to Yarrundi because he had had to return to his wife in Hobart . |