Example sentences of "my reasons for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I determined to spend the first part of my prison leisure working out my reasons for knowing I was right . |
| 2 | I will not rehearse again my reasons for believing that the European Parliament is incapable of filling this democratic void and that for the foreseeable future the elected legislature should remain in national hands . |
| 3 | I 'll give my reasons for voting against this budget . |
| 4 | My reasons for distinguishing the Petralona and Steinheim crania included their contrasting facial morphologies and very large size difference . |
| 5 | Surprisingly , I find that all my reasons for postponing giving birth still apply : I do n't particularly like children ; I value my independence , the freedom to come and go , the open doors ; I want to write , and literary history tells me that my chances of succeeding as a writer and a mother are pitiful ; I hate and fear the nuclear family , the stifling atmosphere , the exploited wife and mother , the generation gap . |
| 6 | I do n't like gritstone : never did — it does n't fit any of my reasons for enjoying climbing , which is why I ca n't see any reason for not bolting it . |
| 7 | So it was that in indicating my reasons for preferring the West Country for my motoring , instead of leaving it at mentioning several of the alluring details as conveyed by Mrs Symons 's volume , I made the error of declaring that a former housekeeper of Darlington Hall was resident in that region . |
| 8 | I wonder how many climbers today empathise with my reasons for climbing ? |
| 9 | So I still have n't been in the autumn , so one of my reasons for finishing is , is so I can go on holiday in the autumn . |
| 10 | He considered the biographer had entirely misunderstood the period and wanted to know my reasons for doing the book and my qualifications for attempting it . |
| 11 | After a troubled night I went to Government House next morning and said to HE that I was convinced that this would be a disastrous step and that if it was decided to take it I must resign on the spot and announce in public my reasons for doing so . |
| 12 | My reasons for doing so are twofold . |
| 13 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 14 | I have my reasons for asking . |