Example sentences of "[pers pn] have good reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am certain of it , ’ he replied , but promptly settled her heartbeats to a dull , steady rhythm once more by adding , ‘ because of your car , did n't I have good reason to contact you ? ’ |
| 2 | I had good reason then to suspect that it could well be . |
| 3 | But I do n't like it here , and I 've good reason for going . |
| 4 | I have good reason to remember a booklength early monograph of hers , published in the British journal of Animal Behaviour : it was almost the first text I ever read as an apprentice sub-editor . |
| 5 | Staying first of all with the Maggses — ‘ the first parents I had in four years and I have good reason for not putting parents in inverted commas ’ — in a small country town , he learned the respectable , middle-class way to do things : |
| 6 | ‘ I think I have good reason to feel sorry for myself ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I am so certain of my place here that I would have resigned anyway , and now I have good reason three times over … my nerve had already failed twice , and could n't do so again … . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ My lord , I have good reason to know that it was you who said a word for me in his Grace 's ear , and gave me this day for thought , and even offered me arguments I was not wise enough to find for myself . |
| 9 | ‘ I have good reason for my request . ’ |
| 10 | I have good reason to believe the occupants are terrorists . |
| 11 | All in all , I think I have good reason to hate her . |
| 12 | I have good reason . |
| 13 | She has good reason to be pleased . |
| 14 | " And she has good reason to say so when she looks at what has happened to all the rest of them . " |
| 15 | She has good reason to believe it . |
| 16 | ‘ I should think she has good reason to think like that , ’ she told him . |
| 17 | Later on she had good reason to be thankful that she was . |
| 18 | After all , Beatrix would n't have sent her anything unless she had good reason to think it would be kept from Maurice . |
| 19 | ‘ She had good reason ! ’ |
| 20 | She had good reason to look very pleased with herself . |
| 21 | 15 She had good reason to suspect that it would , for long before the 1924 show opened , she had decided to try to convince the critics to change their ideas about her work by changing the nature of what she exhibited . |
| 22 | ‘ I grew anxious when you did not appear , but you had good reason , and I 'm glad of your foresight in this matter . ’ |
| 23 | Removing those that remain is a fairly drastic step , which you should only embark on if you have good reason to suspect chemical sensitivity . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've good reason to have our suspicions of you , Bodenland . |
| 25 | ‘ How 's that scheme of yours coming on ? ’ you might ask him and he would reply with just a little too much nonchalance to sound natural : ‘ Oh , I had to give it up ; we had good reason for thinking that the goons were on to it . ’ |
| 26 | But with Pyke to impress in the audience we had good reason to spring energetically over the scaffolding . |
| 27 | As under the 1953 Act , the onus of proving that we have good reason , lawful authority , or one of the other defences , rests squarely with us . |
| 28 | We have good reason to doubt the compatibility of these moral aspirations , for an absolute restriction on the power to withdraw promises imposes a constraint upon liberty without necessarily promoting the liberty of others or oneself . |
| 29 | I think we have good reason to search his flat . ’ |
| 30 | We have good reason to be . |