Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] 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 . |