Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] for [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I mean by calling a sensation ‘ a sensation of white ’ is the same as my reason for calling it ‘ a sensation of white ’ . |
| 2 | The success or failure of this operation is certainly not under discussion here , my reason for bringing it in being simply to point out that music , even good music , can be written which does not abide by standard formal principles . |
| 3 | Oh my reason for including it was Section fifty four A. |
| 4 | I know I should n't talk like this , but Brendan was the best fuck I ever had , and I guess I 've just been feeling guilty towards my family for enjoying it . ’ |
| 5 | Her virtuosity with language is not in doubt ( and all credit to her translator for rendering it with such vitality ) . |
| 6 | Her motive for writing it was the dearth of relevant information and the recurrent request for sex education . |
| 7 | But if a wife 's allegation of rape is true , her motive for bringing it is no more relevant than that of a householder who notifies the police about a burglary merely in order to recover insurance . |
| 8 | He put his hand up her tunic — serve her right for having it so short — just as she got the door open and staggered screaming into her mother 's arms . |
| 9 | So too is materialism which is their reason for positing it as a rightful successor to idealism as the method for understanding history . |
| 10 | Their justification for doing it is that it 's for this thing , this painting or whatever , and I always wonder if it could n't be more without all that . ’ |
| 11 | I try … to make him aware … of his own power , his value as a human being ; to give him confidence in himself , in the richness of life in the real world and his capacity for living it . |
| 12 | What he must do is to formulate an assertion which contradicts our own , and give us his instruction for testing it . |
| 13 | His reason for calling it was unclear apart from vague statements about ‘ getting things moving ’ . |
| 14 | Klaus gave the slightest nod , grateful to his son for articulating it ; gratified by the anger he saw in his son 's face . |
| 15 | And of course we would raise your money for doing it . ’ |
| 16 | : Performance and Fitness for Role ( FFR ) — Almost every software licence , constructed in California and sold in Europe , states that no application is guaranteed to do anything , worse still if it does n't perform it 's almost your fault for buying it ! |
| 17 | I WAS extremely disappointed to see the letter by East Yorkshire 's Dennis Duggan in February 's edition , and in your magazine for printing it . |