Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] for [adj] reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has now been decided to write to Rangers asking for their views on statements attributed to the three men since Ferguson 's club dropped him for disciplinary reasons , after which it came to light that Murray had spoken to United 's manager/chairman , Jim Mclean , about buying the Scotland internationalist . |
| 2 | ‘ I joined them for selfish reasons , ’ he admits . |
| 3 | Most people joined it for humanitarian reasons but it was an outlet for all kinds of disgust . |
| 4 | But in her case we allowed it for obvious reasons . ’ |
| 5 | And I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me for one reason or another . |
| 6 | It was a debilitating time and he felt he survived it for two reasons — a ‘ rigorous regime ’ , which included a vegetarian diet , and the devoted nursing of his widowed landlady , Sarah Lordore ( or Lardeau ) at his lodgings in Stoke Newington . |
| 7 | At first Gaskell supported Deacon 's plans to manufacture alkali by the new Solvay process , but later persuaded him for financial reasons to employ the older Leblanc method . |
| 8 | I was very nervous , and I found myself coming on very strong and direct with her , and saying , ‘ I liked Rosemary 's Baby , but the picture bothered me for this reason … |
| 9 | If Mr Bush vetoes the measure , he risks losing abortion-rights voters who supported him for other reasons , and if he changes his firm anti-abortion stance he runs the potentially greater risk of losing his hard-core right-wing support . |
| 10 | I decided that what I did it for small reasons |
| 11 | The thought that Ace could go bad rankled him for some reason , and he mouthed a silent prayer that her judgment would remain sound . |
| 12 | Sister Eillen Regan , from the board of education of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of San Francisco , says the board shunned it for two reasons : ‘ It treats nuclear war as survivable and implies nuclear war is a political option ’ . |
| 13 | but that , as I say for England and France erm they closed it for some reason |
| 14 | Sir David English probably disliked it for two reasons . |