例1: It came up only the other night. I followed the hostess to the table, and when she pulled the chair out I sat on it, quite naturally, since it happened to be the chair I wanted to sit in. "Well," my wife said, when the hostess had gone, "you did it again. "Did what?" I asked, utterly confused. “Took the chair. Actually, since I'd walked through the restaurant ahead of my wife, it would have been awkward, I should think, not to have taken the chair I had got there first, after all. Q: He took the chair" for all the following reasons EXCEPT that ______.