Example sentences of "i [verb] 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 Thus , perhaps , I believe that my children are at present playing in the garden at home , and I have good reasons for this belief .
5 I have good reasons to be doubtful .
6 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 .
7 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 :
8 ‘ I think I have good reason to feel sorry for myself ! ’
9 ‘ 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 … . ’
10 ‘ 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 .
11 I have good reason for my request . ’
12 I have good reason to believe the occupants are terrorists .
13 All in all , I think I have good reason to hate her .
14 I have good reason .
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