Example sentences of "[art] reason for him [verb] " in BNC.

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1 And we 've got to believe , but that is not the reason for him doing it .
2 She probably did tell him to go away and stop following her around , but that would n't be a reason for him screaming he 'd kill her . ’
3 But since this sudden , amazing improvement in the Baron 's health there was no reason for him to remain .
4 There was no reason for him to do so because the claims that he wished to make were quite simple ( they did not involve complex interactions of different speaker variables ) , and because in his analysis the same patterns were repeated for every variable studied , tending in the same direction in every case in terms of both class and style ( several classes and several styles ) .
5 But if Alexei said that he was not involved , then probably he was telling the truth , otherwise there would be no reason for him to say anything at all .
6 Her remark had been in bad taste , she acknowledged , but that was no reason for him to lay into her with yet another string of personal insults , all dished out in that patronising way that got her blood heated to boiling-point .
7 There was no reason for him to see her again .
8 There was no reason for him to die .
9 It was obvious that he did n't care a fig what she looked like , but that was no reason for him to tighten the purse-strings .
10 At all events , she had committed no crime , so there was no reason for him to pursue the matter any further .
11 Since Vic was not a forester , there was no reason for him to follow the quaint ways of the forest .
12 There was no reason for him to feel at a disadvantage .
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