Example sentences of "for some reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actor is no different , although for some reason it is often thought that you are somehow ready to act , magically , the moment you enter a stage door . |
| 2 | For some reason I could n't , though I could see it was that which infuriated her more than anything . |
| 3 | Completely detached , for some reason . |
| 4 | For some reason , I wanted to keep it going , so I chipped in : ‘ This wedding of yours is a bit inconvenient for me , actually . |
| 5 | Then last year , everything just started running against me for some reason . |
| 6 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 7 | For some reason this inspires the barman to tell me there were a lot of good boxers in the 1980s because they were hungry . |
| 8 | A Your dogs need more fat , not more protein , but for some reason most of the dog-owning world believes otherwise . |
| 9 | Apart from liking London bands such as the Stones and the Kinks , for some reason I always had a working knowledge of the Small Faces . |
| 10 | They 'd be full of stories about Wimbledon Common for some reason . |
| 11 | All was dressed up like Bud Flanagan for some reason almost drowning in a raccoon coat . |
| 12 | One afternoon we were all wandering up Tottenham Court Road for some reason . |
| 13 | For some reason , the public expected Diana to be with him wherever he went . |
| 14 | ( For some reason I found myself in Charlbury last week — about 15 miles from where I thought I was , and ought to have been ! ) |
| 15 | It 's all to do with their continued wilful rejection of Captain Bob 's morale-boosting pay and conditions package which , for some reason , they deplore . |
| 16 | ‘ For some reason I hate to lose , ’ said Chang , ‘ and that makes me more of a fighter . |
| 17 | So I was down there watching The Yardbirds and the English bands that were starting , and one time there was this band — for some reason I was there early and watching the sound check — with this blond guy who had very long blond hair , and knee-length sort of sued , fringed , Sherwood Forest , Robin Hood-looking boots , playing a bit of sax on stage . |
| 18 | Together they form the best picture of their love as Edward described it to Harry before his life at Lincoln began : ‘ For some reason or another we are happier now than ever before . |
| 19 | where the petitioner has suffered an undoubted legal wrong — been assaulted and beaten , or turned out of his property , but for some reason can not get redress , because he is poor and his opponent is rich and powerful , because juries are corrupt or timid . |
| 20 | For some reason , this strange conversation does not strike me as at all odd . |
| 21 | The film stars Keifer Sutherland and Julia Roberts and concerns a group of unlikely student doctors who take it in turns to have their heartbeat stopped in order to experience the afterlife , which for some reason the director has chosen to portray as a series of rather unimaginative music videos . |
| 22 | Such untimely celebrity death provides our nice clean ending and saves us having to contend with the natural processes of ageing and decay , for some reason considered more horrific and obscene than going out with a bang . |
| 23 | For some reason the hand reminded him of Mrs Wright , though her hands were n't white . |
| 24 | And for some reason he found himself drawing a Spitfire . |
| 25 | For some reason that Jinny did not quite understand , it was the last straw . |
| 26 | She could n't remember where she was , nor why , yet for some reason which she did n't understand , she felt they were safe here . |
| 27 | I stayed there only a few days , and then for some reason I was removed to the Colegio Fray Luis de Leon , where I was given a somewhat larger and more comfortable room . |
| 28 | Though I had always disliked Christmas , because I knew it made my mother unhappy for some reason , that was one Christmas when I was happy , and I have never forgotten it . |
| 29 | Or : ‘ I do n't understand all this modern poetry at all , but I know what I like , and for some reason your poems manage to penetrate even my thick head . |
| 30 | But for some reason I can not remember , it was impossible to get permission to ship the motor bike . |