Example sentences of "reason [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German countess then began to speak , but I was at this point , for some reason I do not recollect , obliged to leave the drawing room for an extended period . |
| 2 | So for that reason I do not believe that I feeling strongly as I do should im impose my views on others . |
| 3 | He is an old man who Mr Browning met in the burning streets of Florence last month half out of his wits and with nowhere to go his wife having thrown him out for what reason I do not know . |
| 4 | I think his success in getting them was part of the reason I did not get them . ’ |
| 5 | Ring if for some reason you do not wish to register with the 150 different organisations banks , building societies , stockbrokers and others acting as share shops . |
| 6 | Widows ' pension is normally paid automatically once you have sent off your completed form BW1 , so if for any reason you do not receive it you should enquire at your local Social Security office . |
| 7 | ‘ Now that we are private , ’ he said , looking her in the eyes , ‘ you may speak out openly what for some reason you did not wish to speak out before the prince . |
| 8 | I should mention that if for any reason we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 9 | For this reason we did not work with families who had lost an infant : instead we investigated the ordinary patterns of beliefs about infants and their care in two different populations , mothers of Welsh and Bangladeshi infants in Cardiff . |
| 10 | For some reason we do not think in such simplistic terms and did not dismiss the Director of Licensing at the CAA from office when the pilot of a Vanguard trying to land in a snowstorm at Basle failed to carry out a successful instrument approach and killed all those poor housewives out on a day shopping trip . |
| 11 | The reason we do not use Column one , Row one is that this often prints as an incomplete box on some printers , so it is best avoided . |
| 12 | For this reason we do not believe in formal homework on a regular basis . ’ |
| 13 | The reason they do not like it is that they are so sensitive about it . |
| 14 | The woman was simply his mistress , whom for some reason he did not want me to meet ; or who perhaps did not want to meet me . |
| 15 | The reason he did not start this game was that , as Mr Wilkinson put it ‘ he did not get a kick ’ , when Leeds were beaten 4–0 , their heaviest defeat of the season , by Manchester City a week earlier . |
| 16 | For whatever reason he did not stop at the Fish — which he had visited on several occasions ; nor did he seek out or meet Mary whom he knew and greatly admired . |
| 17 | For he had suddenly realised that she was at the end of her tether — for what reason he did not know , and neither did he care , only that he must go warily with her , lest he damage her beyond repair . |
| 18 | The runner , who has always protested that he is innocent , insists that the only reason he did not provide a sample at the 1991 GRE Cup meeting was that he did not have time before he had to go to work . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes ? ’ prompted Dr Neil with a grin — for some reason he did not believe a word of this farrago — to hear her reply in a low voice , |
| 20 | It represents the starting point , the fitted value to which the other path values should be added ; for this reason it does not have a sign attached . |
| 21 | That operation as I understand it is certainly either available on the National Health or er likely to be available on the national health I have not understood that it is the sort of operation which will for any reason suddenly need to be done and I bear in mind that the plaintiff has had already an operation on his hip done on the National Health , it seems to me on the probabilities that there is a very strong probability that that operation will be done on the National Health and not done privately and for that reason it does not seem to me right to include any sum in relation to that in the damages . |