Example sentences of "reason [vb -s] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next sentence begins ‘ Yet reason tells me … ’ and ends ‘ … then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection , though insuperable by our imagination , can hardly be considered real . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Reason tells me I do right to let you go , yet my heart urges me to hold on to you … ’ |
| 3 | I prefer to think things through and find a logical reason for them , and reason tells me that you 're hiding what information you have from the police because you 're afraid that it will ruin your scoop . |
| 4 | The precise reason escapes me now , lost perhaps in the flurry of activity that followed . |
| 5 | The reason escapes me — perhaps it is just a case of common theft . |