Example sentences of "reason [adv] know to himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramprakash , for reasons best known to himself , treated a Cambridge batsman , Marcus Wight , to a stream of verbal abuse and then had a stand-up row with his own captain , John Emburey , which allegedly continued later . |
| 2 | Four years later , like so many of his generation , he was sucked into the tragically wasteful conflict of the First World War , serving — for reasons best known to himself — as a soldier in the Canadian Army . |
| 3 | For reasons best known to himself Halzman , the senior sonar operator , preferred not to discuss it over an open line . |
| 4 | This ex-rugger international has , for reasons best known to himself , tired of rambling on about the oval ball game ; as a consequence he has taken to bespattering the media with stories about his allegedly ‘ sexy ’ life and times in terms which strive risibly to emulate the writings of the greatest rock journalist in the world — just like practically everyone else in the media has been muscling in on my territory in recent times . |
| 5 | For reasons best known to himself Carr kicked the legs from under Murray , leaving referee Brian White with no option but to order him off . |
| 6 | I did not begrudge Wilson this , since I had no wish for my own part to be revealed , but for some reason best known to himself he decided that he would at least claim the credit for having found me . |
| 7 | Now what I ca n't explain why , is that he starts with thirty two , now whether he sort of gets muddled up with the sort of the system of something I do n't know , but for some reason best known to himself , he starts with thirty two , and the continuum goes up to a hundred and sixty . |