Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [det] reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hast Thou ever seen me for that reason at all dejected ? |
| 2 | And marriage and being a mother terrifies me for that reason . |
| 3 | Then last year , everything just started running against me for some reason . |
| 4 | If the Inspector had planned to unsettle me for some reason , he had succeeded . |
| 5 | She 's always pissed off with me for some reason ! |
| 6 | It came as a great surprise to me for some reason or other . |
| 7 | not talking to me for some reason . |
| 8 | P T O I suppose it 's unlikely that I 'll ever see you again but we might see each other at William 's or something and if you ever need to speak to me for some reason you can call me at school |
| 9 | I was very nervous , and I found myself coming on very strong and direct with her , and saying , ‘ I liked Rosemary 's Baby , but the picture bothered me for this reason … |
| 10 | a nonsense to me for this reason , that there is in society the payers of wages and the receivers of wages . |
| 11 | The attempt in the Treaty to reorganize the Balkans as a stable structure of national states appealed to them for this reason . |
| 12 | ‘ I think that either Floy could n't leave them for some reason , or — ’ |
| 13 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 14 | But I was in two minds about him for another reason : he was already too old for training purposes , and of course that was why I wanted a bird . |
| 15 | The thought that Ace could go bad rankled him for some reason , and he mouthed a silent prayer that her judgment would remain sound . |
| 16 | She only knew that he was very serious and that this was important to him for some reason . |
| 17 | St Matthew 's seems to suit her for some reason . |
| 18 | She 'd chosen it for that reason — and because it was the colour of wine . |
| 19 | Sorry if you take catty as the para now , then D P are n't actually , the reason D P sent the paper questionnaire is to just double check that all the columns and everything are laid out in the correct way are n't they and then checking it for that reason , whereas they are actually doing it on something like Kathy themselves so they , there is n't the same approval going on . |
| 20 | I said no , I 'm not , I 'm not doing it for that reason I said I 'm trying to you know thought to myself we 'll give them something back . |
| 21 | And eventually they said well the stereotype is basically sort of like the equivalent in litho plate making really said that this was , no of course it is metal , sorry it 's not metal , it is letterpress The Guardian and it is , they make these Nyclopone plates or something and they really wanted to keep it for that reason . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't think they 'd print it for some reason . |
| 23 | It was almost as if his thoughts were not wholeheartedly in it for some reason . |
| 24 | Another thing that tickled me about that game was that when vinny had got his second he went over to one of the hoardings that had ‘ Alexei Sayle ’ written on it and kicked the shit out of it for some reason ( same goal I think as above ) |
| 25 | But she took a dislike to it for some reason , she would n't go in it . |
| 26 | in the way of , but she 's just nervous it for some reason . |
| 27 | but that , as I say for England and France erm they closed it for some reason |
| 28 | We 're amazed that we can hear the people downstairs , cos we can hear them like , you know , if you hear somebody above you , walking here dong dong dong dong , above , you can hear it for some reason , below on the ground floor . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't do it for any reason of self . ’ |
| 30 | And er then he took it back of us for some reason . |