Sentence examples for * my motive from inspiring English sources

What is my motive, my involvement, anything?

Here, my motive powers returned as mysteriously as they had abandoned me.

My conduct may seem eccentric in the eyes of some – but my motive is plain and simple.

Decoration was my motive — I had just painted the ceiling with gold leaf, aiming to create a destination bathroom.

However, while the Guardian's coverage was well balanced, some of the reporting elsewhere has incorrectly interpreted my motive.

He laughed and elaborated: "My motive was a kind of dumb sense of challenge, facing up to something that's absolute.

In an interview with the BBC, Peace claimed that when writing GB84, which is set during the miners' strike of the early 1980s, "my main motive and responsibility was to stop people forgetting what happened.

Of course, my real motive was to discover the secret ingredient in their kibbeh dough.

This is why I get very spiny when I think someone's suggesting this may be my root motive and character because I'm afraid it might be".

Waterman frequently defended the outfit's production line approach to critics – telling the NME in 1999, "My primary motive is to have hits.

He added: "My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them".