Example sentences of "[adj] reason i " in BNC.
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| 1 | For both a practical and a theoretical reason I shall concentrate on describing those influences in terms of just four varieties : Standard British English , London English ( henceforth LE ) , Jamaican Standard English and Jamaican Creole ( henceforth JC ) , with emphasis on just two of these , LE and JC . |
| 2 | The chief reason I 'd always been against abortion was that it seemed like tearing up a bill instead of paying it . |
| 3 | Or how about if he realised that the real reason I had been looking ‘ better ’ lately had something to do with a £6.99 bargain hair colourant from Clairol ? |
| 4 | Sandie , who met Freddie when she was an 18-year-old dancer on his show , smiled broadly as he quipped : ‘ The real reason I 'm leaving my wife is she makes lousy coffee . ’ |
| 5 | This is the real reason I came , I half guessed who the Sons of Dives were . |
| 6 | That was the real reason I was sweating as I went to bed that night . |
| 7 | On the eve of the match , the 34-year-old Welsh international said : ‘ The simple reason I started wearing black was because I do n't like all the colours the company are making . |
| 8 | I happen to drive a very small car er a Fiat one , two , six and you ca n't get much smaller than that and I am much more aggressive when I 'm driving that for the simple reason I think its this sort of principle although I 'm nearly six foot in that I 'm a small person and the small person mentality comes out because I get cut up continuously , they do n't do that when I 'm driving my husband 's car which is a Volvo , er they will cut in front of me , I do n't think they , if they knew what my brakes were like they would n't do it . |
| 9 | I 'm so self reliant that I if I was going o do anything it 'd have to be me that would do it , for the simple reason I could n't trust anybody else , not in that particular thing anyway . |
| 10 | ‘ Because for some extremely tiresome reason I 've discovered I care about you . ’ |
| 11 | Erm and I feel that for no good reason I was forced to go through a major surgery . |
| 12 | Even now , the only substantial reason I have been given for stopping the work , is that BW themselves propose to upgrade the towpath along the whole length . |
| 13 | It is puzzling why this happens year after year and the only feasible reason I can come up with is — there seems to be far too many players competing in too many leagues in and around the Belfast area . |
| 14 | more than just physical reason I , I mean a lot of people are grossly overweight they , you know , people usually say oh it 's the |
| 15 | The only reason I shave at all is for other people . |
| 16 | The only reason I like to use the lightest line possible is so that my tackle , and consequently the bait , will behave as naturally as possible . |
| 17 | The only reason I was here was because Joyce , who was to spend the first two days at the Centre with me , had continuously reminded me on the journey that the decision to go to Bristol had been mine and mine alone . |
| 18 | It 's the only reason I can think of for her to get so much wrong . |
| 19 | ‘ The only reason I do n't punch you , ’ I said , ‘ is that I do n't want to come down to your level . ’ |
| 20 | And the only reason I was n't is , well , because of us . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Like a fool , I told her that the only reason I 'd married her was because she 'd told me she was pregnant . |
| 22 | And then after a brief explanation , ‘ The only reason I write to you is that you warned me this would happen . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The only reason I ever played Les Pauls was because Keith was playing a Strat and I thought we should have a different look , but from about 1985 on I 've played Strats . |
| 24 | ‘ The only reason I can imagine is — again , going back to the management and the bottom line — that he went into the Vegas thing . |
| 25 | ‘ But I got punched to pieces that night and the only reason I won the fight was that I could still keep going in the 12th round . |
| 26 | ‘ I know all that , ’ I began to feel angry and frustrated , ‘ but Goddammit , the only reason I came to this island was because of my interest in polio . |
| 27 | The only reason I make the point is that I understand ATP have rejected an appeal by the LTA to help guarantee the long term future of the November indoor tournament in Birmingham by lowering the $600,000 prize money to around the $300,000 on offer at the two competing tournaments in Moscow and Sao Paolo that week . |
| 28 | And I 'll tell you the only reason I took the baby home was because Martin wanted her . |
| 29 | Birchall adds : ‘ The only reason I do n't tuck in like that is because I 'm not double-jointed like Gavin and I 've got a beer gut ! ’ |
| 30 | I was mixing the two and injecting the two , which was pretty weird and I think the only reason I was mixing the coke in with it was 'cos it was cheaper at the time … . |