Example sentences of "reason he do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OK , so her date with O'Shea had n't turned out as he 'd imagined , but the fact remained she had chosen her old college buddy over him — a fact that rankled for reasons he did n't care to examine . |
| 2 | His father 's favouring of Chuck had forced him to turn to her increasingly for solace , and that some unimaginable selfishness should have driven her to commit her dreadful act of desertion baffled and disturbed him deeply for reasons he did n't begin to understand . |
| 3 | But I 've heard him quoted as saying that one of the reasons he did n't come was because they did n't have a venue large enough , because people would want to come from all over Europe . |
| 4 | For some reason he does n't want anyone to sleep there , I do n't know why . |
| 5 | With him , well for some reason he does n't like us , well , you say I was thinking , I 've been thinking as you know this is the sort of thing that I , gets on to my mind , but I was thinking to myself well really and truly we are so honest people ourselves , we do n't go round you know and screw sort of fiddling things , I suppose it comes to hard to us when we discover other people have |
| 6 | But Paul did n't like to admit that this was the reason he did n't want to give up his day job . |
| 7 | The only reason he did n't stop to annihilate both of us on his way home was that he knew there was n't a minute to lose . |
| 8 | that the reason he did n't sleep was because the fact that he was just sitting around all day . |
| 9 | She and this animal treated each other with mutual contempt , like an old unhappily married couple , and I always thought that the only reason he did n't bite her or she have him put down was that they disliked the rest of the world even more than each other and would have been even more miserable and lonely than they were in their trap of hostility . |
| 10 | But there are some parables that Jesus ac explained for the simple reason he did n't have to explain them . |
| 11 | " Captain Dura — what was the real reason he did n't come to Ireland ? " |
| 12 | She says for some reason he did n't come back for it . |
| 13 | For some reason he did n't get the kicks , but he certainly saw it happen . ’ |
| 14 | The woman was simply his mistress , whom for some reason he did not want me to meet ; or who perhaps did not want to meet me . |
| 15 | The reason he did not start this game was that , as Mr Wilkinson put it ‘ he did not get a kick ’ , when Leeds were beaten 4–0 , their heaviest defeat of the season , by Manchester City a week earlier . |
| 16 | For whatever reason he did not stop at the Fish — which he had visited on several occasions ; nor did he seek out or meet Mary whom he knew and greatly admired . |
| 17 | For he had suddenly realised that she was at the end of her tether — for what reason he did not know , and neither did he care , only that he must go warily with her , lest he damage her beyond repair . |
| 18 | The runner , who has always protested that he is innocent , insists that the only reason he did not provide a sample at the 1991 GRE Cup meeting was that he did not have time before he had to go to work . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes ? ’ prompted Dr Neil with a grin — for some reason he did not believe a word of this farrago — to hear her reply in a low voice , |