Example sentences of "have for some reason [verb] " in BNC.

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1 If so he wonders if the patient needs to cry and has for some reason stopped himself .
2 Alyssia had for some reason thought that he spent the majority of his life in England , but it turned out that , although he owned a flat in London , he spent quite a lot of time working overseas .
3 Morris clipped the papers together and tossed them across onto Dyson 's desk Dyson had for some reason assumed that Morris would bring them over and stand beside him while he went through them .
4 His pleasure at the escape had for some reason given way now to even more sadness in the presence of the eagles that were still caged , as if the escape of one had intensified the sense of imprisonment of the others .
5 It may be right to guess that Athens ' ambitious foreign policy of this period , which includes diplomacy with a non-Greek town far in the interior of Sicily ( ML 37 = Fornara 81 , an alliance with Segesta in 457 ) , was forced on her by the need to seek alternative supplies of corn , because her usual overseas sources had for some reason become precarious .
6 These breed clubs have regenerated interest in the people who had for some reason left the breed and have now been asked to return to spread their knowledge to the younger members .
7 I had for some reason gone up to M. Dupont 's room and was about to knock , but before doing so , as is my custom , I paused for a second to listen at the door .
8 I refused to believe that he chanced to have the same name as the previous tenants of the cottage — unless he himself was the previous tenant , and had for some reason returned to Moila without wanting to be known ?
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