Example sentences of "[pron] for [adj] reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I had decided that whatever I washoping to do , I was going to do on my own so if anyone was going to be proud of me they were going to be proud of me for legitimate reasons . |
| 2 | ‘ So if you do n't want anyone thinking you might be with me for personal reasons , why bother ? ’ |
| 3 | Hast Thou ever seen me for that reason at all dejected ? |
| 4 | And marriage and being a mother terrifies me for that reason . |
| 5 | And I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me for one reason or another . |
| 6 | Well yes since leaving college yes it 's been predominantly figurative and I always take my subject matter from things that I 've seen which have interested me for one reason or another . |
| 7 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 8 | The course was important to me for several reasons . |
| 9 | Then last year , everything just started running against me for some reason . |
| 10 | If the Inspector had planned to unsettle me for some reason , he had succeeded . |
| 11 | She 's always pissed off with me for some reason ! |
| 12 | It came as a great surprise to me for some reason or other . |
| 13 | not talking to me for some reason . |
| 14 | P T O I suppose it 's unlikely that I 'll ever see you again but we might see each other at William 's or something and if you ever need to speak to me for some reason you can call me at school |
| 15 | I was very nervous , and I found myself coming on very strong and direct with her , and saying , ‘ I liked Rosemary 's Baby , but the picture bothered me for this reason … |
| 16 | a nonsense to me for this reason , that there is in society the payers of wages and the receivers of wages . |
| 17 | Indeed , the EEC , in anticipation of its enlargement , had also begun to consider how it might accommodate the remaining EFTA states , all of whom for varying reasons could not consider joining the EEC , or were precluded from doing so . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I joined them for selfish reasons , ’ he admits . |
| 20 | The attempt in the Treaty to reorganize the Balkans as a stable structure of national states appealed to them for this reason . |
| 21 | ‘ I think that either Floy could n't leave them for some reason , or — ’ |
| 22 | It 's always difficult to come to a conclusion about portable computers because people buy them for different reasons . |
| 23 | There is no reason why having some coincidental sperm-and-egg relationship with a child should entitle someone for that reason to be seen as a ‘ natural expert ’ , as distinct from a very clever , highly qualified one . |
| 24 | However , they may still be needed for information which for one reason or another is not made available by subject access . |
| 25 | However effective the departmental ordering , some central control is needed to balance up inequality of treatment between subjects , order interdisciplinary material , and fill in titles which for one reason or another have been missed . |
| 26 | It may be that learners have internalized aspects of the system which for one reason or another they can not access on particular occasions , that circumstances of different kinds prevent them from acting on this knowledge . |
| 27 | Thus , a story which for one reason had been meaningful to her as a young child provided guidance for her at adolescence for quite a different reason . |
| 28 | In 1977 yet another alibi witness surfaced , one Richard Hurn , who knew nothing of the case or of McMahon 's imprisonment but told a friend that he remembered seeing McMahon in London on the afternoon of the murder , a date which for other reasons he had cause to remember . |
| 29 | I have discovered those which for various reasons I did not feel comfortable with ; on the other hand , there have been a few works which I could as my personal luxury ! |
| 30 | The client may have needs for a high level of social contact , which for various reasons are not being met , or , vice versa , they may have the need to spend more time alone which is not being met . |