Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for some reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you think that you 're lucky to be alive in that respect , but I 've never really thought that I was specially picked out for some reason to carry on living . |
| 2 | There are instances when a valid subsidence or heave claim is received but the Policyholder does not wish to have the repairs carried out for some reason e.g. elderly Policyholder does not wish upheaval , can not pay the policy excess . |
| 3 | Should a main branch be broken off for some reason ( by vineyard machinery , for example ) , it is permissible to bring out a shoot half-way along the next branch to fill the gap . |
| 4 | Evidently , one tends to forget the worst episodes over time , and remembers only those items that stand out for some reason ’ . |
| 5 | Of course you can make appalling howlers if you set out for some reason to portray life in a social area unknown to you . |
| 6 | I find some people on the streets are quite like , pigheaded and they do n't really want to go back for some reason really . |
| 7 | The sergeant looked at her closely , obviously wondering if she planned to run off for some reason . |
| 8 | Looks as though it had been cut out for some reason . |
| 9 | A reader could make a number of inferences about this passage : Mary is female , more probably an adult than a child ; It is morning ; Mary does not want to get up for some reason ; Mary is in bed ; she lives in a house with a refrigerator ; the house is possibly in North America , and so on . |
| 10 | Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles . |
| 11 | He had also for some reason tried to mask part of his window . |
| 12 | I know he asked me to stay but I wanted more for some reason . ’ |