Example sentences of "[verb] for some reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | – This means that the outer G forme was removed from the press part way through — printing stopped for some reason — and someone dropped it , scattering the letters everywhere . |
| 2 | I set off again , maintaining for some reason — perhaps because I expected further farm creatures to wander across my path — my slow speed of before . |
| 3 | The water level is automatically reduced to normal if the machine over-fills for some reason . |
| 4 | Many good exercise programmes stop when life and the usual routine starts to get chaotic or change for some reason . |
| 5 | Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 6 | CPRW has evidence that the sale of holiday units as permanent residences is already beginning to happen where the temporary occupancy clause , which is customarily enforced on caravan and chalet sites , has been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 7 | Though since to find an alternative word was n't going to alter matters at all by the look of it , Fabia began to wonder if perhaps Vendelin Gajdusek was coming back from Prague today to keep his appointment but had been delayed for some reason or another . |
| 8 | She had expected for some reason a warm and well-fleshed figure , dressed in tweeds saturated in the comforting perfume of unsmoked tobacco . |
| 9 | If so he wonders if the patient needs to cry and has for some reason stopped himself . |
| 10 | On the far side of Farringdon Road , Graham passed Easton Street where another painter 's or window-cleaner 's cradle lay on the pavement , up-ended for some reason , neat coils of rope around it . |
| 11 | ABO — cancelled For some reason , it has been decided not to proceed with the DC . |
| 12 | Well he must have been transferred for some reason or other . |
| 13 | She says for some reason he did n't come back for it . |
| 14 | apparently monitors for some reason the most monitor cost , monitor class speakers |
| 15 | When Len arrived , they seemed for some reason to talk about nothing but health . |
| 16 | The house was right down at the bottom of the street , and I moved like a ghost from lamp to lamp , tiptoeing for some reason , as if I were in a jungle in dread of attracting the attention of wild animals prowling near me . |
| 17 | One girl , I swear , thought for some reason that Pericles was about a car-manufacturer . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , in the time period available , there was considerable shortfall due either to delays in the courts or the file having been impossible to trace for some reason . |
| 19 | And because the Bar was still crowded for some reason they were literally pushed together . |
| 20 | somebody 's Chronicle I borrowed for some reason |
| 21 | A further 35% of the students either failed at the final examination , failed at some stage of the course or withdrew for some reason . |
| 22 | Did he think she was lying for some reason ? |
| 23 | This last datum may be accompanied by one of the following letters : S = the company 's shares have been suspended , A = company has been acquired , L = company has been liquidated , e = non-voting shares have been enfranchised for some reason , and lastly F = the shares have been withdrawn from the official list for some other reason than those already mentioned . |
| 24 | Another possibility is that the gas density may have been overestimated for some reason . |
| 25 | Doncaster 's RL team , he observed for some reason , was even worse than its footballers . |
| 26 | If the package has changed and the DCs have been aborted for some reason , but you still wish to proceed with the change , raise new DCs , get agreement for the changes , activate the Dcs through your package , then resubmit the package for approval . |
| 27 | Um , it 's one of these things that erm y'know for some reason er the person they tell is apt to minimise the problem , is apt to say that the accusations are malicious , is apt to say that you must have imagined it and so on and so forth . |
| 28 | Vera Loomis , the ninety-two-year-old who lived at number 92 and was known for some reason as Got All the Things There Then ? had offered plum wine or home-brewed lager and Susan Doyle , who was reported to watch News at Ten while her husband pleasured her , had suggested lemonade shandy . |
| 29 | The Carter boy , Jonathan , known for some reason as Floss , took to spending long hours by the pool in a barely concealed state of voyeuristic arousal . |
| 30 | Another interesting question is whether you have any right of redress if , while continuing to pay your salary , your employer does not give you any work to do , perhaps sending you home and saying for some reason , ‘ Do n't call us , we 'll call you ’ . |