Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] because [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Reynolds needed the nasogastric tube for 4 days after his operation because he developed a paralytic ileus and it was not until the fourth post-operative day that the bowel began to work . |
| 2 | Hywel looks after his sheep because they are here . |
| 3 | Howard 's accounts received such widespread attention at the time and are still read two hundred years after his death because he so precisely ‘ set down matter of fact ’ . |
| 4 | Putting names to faces : You may wish to be able to look at someone and think instantly of his name because it makes social life so much easier ; or you may wish to improve your chances of impressing a business acquaintance ( and possibly making a deal as a result ) . |
| 5 | And then there was all this problem of who was going to pay for him for the rest of his life because he was a vegetable . ’ |
| 6 | Richard Assheton may have employed the best church architects of his day because he was himself an amateur architect ( he designed a church at Flecknoe , near Daventry , south of Rugby ) and hence may have appreciated the difficulties of architectural design and the ability of talented practitioners to resolve them happily . |
| 7 | Walter is seen to be best in the care of his parents because they protect him and offer him a barrier against the outside world . |
| 8 | He takes care of his parents because they can no longer take care of him or of themselves . |
| 9 | Earlier today the Secretary of State chided me and said that in some way I was an advocate of his system because I used the example of refuse collection and its cost to show that his system was simple and that we were in agreement on it . |
| 10 | Komarek said on April 9 that Reichel had been relieved of his posts because he wanted to concentrate on election work for the Czechoslovakian People 's Party , of which he was a member . |
| 11 | Luke was ruthlessly dismissive , utterly without conscience , and she could welcome this further evidence of his hypocrisy because it reinforced resistance . |
| 12 | The total amount of marks possible was two hundred and five and I got a hundred and nineteen or something I do n't know and , and goes yes I had to average five of his marks because he was absent . |
| 13 | One man explained that he was unable to continue payment in support of his mother because he had joined the Navy , and he was given exemption . |
| 14 | Tamburlaine is confident that he is in control of his destiny because he believes it is his fate . |
| 15 | His father was very proud of his house because he had built it on a bit of land at Low Fields and did quite a lot of the construction work himself , with the help of his bachelor brother , Tommy . |
| 16 | Neddy was an old Dales character who played the harmonium and who found an old bell one day which he placed on top of his harmonium because he liked the sound of it . |
| 17 | Puddephat had refused to take his place at a formal dinner to welcome the new master of his college because he had been placed opposite Dr Theodore Sykes , a fellow member of the English faculty . |
| 18 | However it would appear that Hahnemann was a couple of centuries ahead of his time because it is now known that the DNA of certain viruses can incorporate itself into our own genome , our own inherited material . |
| 19 | And finally , there 's Tony , who 's wasting a lot of his time because you have n't giving him enough targets to keep him interested and to develop his potential , and to get the best out of him . |
| 20 | That , you see that privet , that 's not the end of his garden because it 's foreshortened . |
| 21 | He lived the part of a blind man so much so that he tripped and fell after leaving the set and damaged the cornea of his eye because he had trained himself not to blink ! |
| 22 | In fact there is no way out of his predicament because he can find no external way of authenticating the present : ‘ the more clearly the future could be seen , the more evident that it could validate nothing ’ ( Wheelis 1971 : 56 ) . |
| 23 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 24 | There were white lines in the brown flesh at the side of his eyes because he smiled so much . |
| 25 | She did n't know the colour of his eyes because she had never looked into them . |
| 26 | Amazingly , Gazza can remember nothing about one of the great goals of his career because he was still suffering the debilitating effects of flu . |
| 27 | Crawford said at the time that he identified with his character because he felt that the enthusiasm and initiative of youth was often undervalued by the older generation . |
| 28 | He says he ca n't even play with his grandchildren because he 's in so much pain . |
| 29 | However , it got so bad one day — I think he had been discussing this with his father because he used to go home sometimes at the weekends and come back to the flat on Monday — and he came in one day and said , ‘ OK , it 's going to be cabaret ’ . |
| 30 | And he spoke for three hours About ivory towers And warlords in armoury suit And the traveller sat And stared into his hat Because he was a deaf and dumb mute . |