Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun] because [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we got home I was surprised to see Dad sitting in his usual seat because he should have been at work . |
| 2 | At lunchtime Desmond had n't been able to place his usual bets because she 'd sent him haring back to the digs to see if an urgent letter had arrived . |
| 3 | By pre-arrangement the debate was limited to foreign and defence matters , which Mr Ford considered his strong suit because he had been a congressman and a vice-president while his opponent , Jimmy Carter , had been a mere governor of Georgia and a peanut farmer . |
| 4 | One can not imagine , for example , a geophysicist ignoring the results of his seismic surveys because they got in the way of his theories , and yet Weiss says that this sort of possibility exists in bad or unscrupulous social science research . |
| 5 | It was far from ideal , in an age which put such a premium on the identification of the ruler with his kingdom ; Elizabeth 's boast of being ‘ mere English ’ , James VI and I 's difficulty with his English subjects because he was a Scot , make the point very well . |
| 6 | A COCAINE and heroin user killed his 17-year-old girlfriend because she would not have sex with him , a court heard yesterday . |
| 7 | Shortly after his appointment as Minister of Housing in October 1964 , he telephoned me on a Sunday morning to say that he was having great trouble with his civil servants because he wished to promote an anti-eviction Bill , which would make it impossible for people to be evicted from their premises without special precautions . |
| 8 | It also presented him with an interesting little self-discussion about his future prospects because it came when he was on the cusp between low-key acting roles and moderate fame . |
| 9 | If he does not enjoy his previous hobbies because he can not achieve his former standards , you can try introducing him to new , different ones . |
| 10 | She was startled when he took her hand impatiently and moved it and some small hurt must have shown on her face at his swift action because he looked down at her frustratedly . |
| 11 | And as to Spasov and being saved — ‘ Il me semble que tout le monde va à Spassof ’ — there is still some comic devillife in him as he quotes the Saviour against his bible-selling saviour because she is taking thought for the morrow , and as he turns the gospel on its head with ‘ Happiness does n't pay me because I start at once forgiving all my enemies . ’ |
| 12 | An eighty-six year old man has been told that he ca n't keep his artificial legs because he 's too accident prone . |
| 13 | Wainfleet protested that he could not fairly be accused of wasting police time with his practical joke because he had not anticipated the police being informed . |
| 14 | made an aeroplane very quickly first which I think was his big mistake because he then tried to explain to how to make it and kept wanting to touch her aeroplane |
| 15 | The boy now gives up his Oedipal wishes because he would rather keep his penis , and he takes the castration threat seriously , having seen a castrated person . |
| 16 | He accepted it , enjoyed what it had to offer and lived his secret life because he loved it . |
| 17 | That student is unable to get help from his educational institution because it has run out of its access funds . |
| 18 | If they had known , people might have said he was a reformed character , but nobody had known much about his bad ways because he had worked on his own . |
| 19 | She excused his erratic behaviour because she assumed it was linked to business pressures and that it was part of the aggressive masculinity which she prized . |