Example sentences of "[pers pn] had reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here I had reason for hope . |
| 2 | ‘ I had reason to ask [ the defendant ] to come and see me because of reports made by Paulette to me of his violent treatment to her . |
| 3 | The point I 'm coming to is this : on that particular day , I had reason to open the lid of the dustbin . |
| 4 | Thereafter I never attacked Rowse 's political views in print , and , when I came to know him better , I no longer felt I had reason to do so . |
| 5 | Whatever had happened in space , I had reason to believe that the displacement in time must have been relatively slight . |
| 6 | She had reason to be wary , reason to act cool . |
| 7 | She had reason to be depressed this time . |
| 8 | She had reason on her side . |
| 9 | Rain was no more vague than she had reason to be . |
| 10 | Perhaps you merely intimidated him and perhaps you had reason too . |
| 11 | ‘ Do I understand , ’ said Clarke when she came to the end of her story , ‘ that you had reason to believe your friend might have been the victim of a violent attack ? ’ |
| 12 | We had reason to believe … ’ |
| 13 | If he wisely orders his men to occupy a certain hill it does not follow that they had reason to occupy that hill even before they were ordered to do so . |
| 14 | Imagine the outcry if the police were to send this type of letter to an adolescent they had reason to believe had violated the law : |
| 15 | Should there be any emergency he was to phone Dockhead police station , or they would phone him if they had reason to call . |
| 16 | They had reason to hate the Turks , who had driven them from their homes ; they were grateful for the grants of land which enabled them to settle down in their new homes , and they owed no allegiance to the Croatian and Hungarian nobles . |
| 17 | Those who held forth in the Royal Institution in the second half of the nineteenth century , or who addressed large audiences at the British Association or its equivalents in other countries , were confident ; and they had reason for their confidence . |
| 18 | Seaside wear seemed inappropriate , yet they could not see that they had reason to mourn the passing of Sir Thomas Throgmorton . |
| 19 | He had reason to be touchy about Nechaev . |
| 20 | As I say , he had reason to feel touchy about Nechaev . |
| 21 | He had reason to suspect that she had saved money and his life could glow again in the concentration of her attention . |
| 22 | Or perhaps he had reason to be content , since Franca had been , perhaps visibly , moved , or startled by his sudden gesture of kissing her hand , something which she could not remember his ever having done before . |
| 23 | Yet again he had reason to be grateful that no-one in Vienna argued with a uniform . |
| 24 | That it appears to this Committee that the Secretary ( Mr Huntingford ) has propagated reports injurious to the character of the Professor and that his conduct appears highly culpable in having spread such reports after he had reason to be satisfied that they were groundless . |
| 25 | Resolved that , from the report of the Committee consisting of the Earl of Morton , Chairman , & c this meeting is perfectly satisfied with the Character & Conduct of the Professor Mr Vial and is of opinion that the conduct of the Secretary Mr Huntingford is highly culpable in having propagated reports injurious to the Professor Mr Vial after he had reason to be satisfied the [ sic ] were groundless . ’ |
| 26 | One day , soon after he arrived in the dale he had reason to go to another farm and overheard a conversation between two old ladies.p They were lamenting that it was a sad day because outsiders were coming into the dale and taking over farms and was n't it a shame they could n't be let to locals . ’ |
| 27 | But it was I who was stupid , too stupid to see he had reason for wanting to establish what he thought of as respectable origins . |
| 28 | His European diplomacy had been a triumph ; he had sealed something very like a partnership with Mikhail Gorbachev ; he had reason to think that a deal on the Uruguay round of the GATT would be completed by Christmas . |
| 29 | Mr Bradley called her miss , and even the local doctor called her Miss McCafferty whenever he had reason to talk to her about her charges . |
| 30 | He had reason to be in that camp … |