Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a rather [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt his pack of men would have returned later to retrieve it , but it did strike me as a rather unsatisfactory way to spend a day in the hills . |
| 2 | The landlady , a woman of around forty or so , appears to regard me as a rather grand visitor on account of Mr Farraday 's Ford and the high quality of my suit . |
| 3 | Both were the same in one particular : both had one finger raised in what had always struck me as a rather rude gesture . |
| 4 | She struck me as a rather isolated figure , psychologically as well as physically , sitting at that distant table . |
| 5 | And the other one which is er Mr and that er has details of various convictions with er picture of his as a rather younger man er , various offences going back to nineteen seventy five and occupying quite a long space but there . |
| 6 | The emphasis on pace bowling meant that he found himself in a rather curious position . |
| 7 | Although it was itself of a rather fetid awfulness , The Damned prefigured almost all of the conventions of the nostalgia movie : the fusing of public history with a private , intimate drama ; the ubiquity of ‘ decadence ’ and deviant sexuality ; the scratchy suggestiveness of ‘ cheap ’ popular music on the soundtrack ; the transformation of the past into a glittering art deco exhibition of costume and design ; and the constant reference to movie mythology . |
| 8 | Hardy Hall put you in a rather higher position and invited you to consider some of the long-term implications of the proposed change as well as the immediate problems . |
| 9 | ‘ Puts you in a rather unhappy position . |
| 10 | Certain that it was the only true begetter of G&S , indifferent to new theatrical styles , D'Oyly Carte presented the same productions year after year , turning them into a rather dreary ritual . |
| 11 | Intending not to forget her car again , however , Fabia dipped her spoon into her pudding , sampled it , and discovered it was something of a rather superb plum pie , if different from what she knew . |
| 12 | this Wednesday afternoon linking the East Midlands , and it promises to be something of a rather special afternoon this Afternoon Special because we have a very special guest , the legendary Adam Faith who 's appearing in Alfie , not until next March at Nottingham 's Theatre Royal , but he 's here to tell us all about the play and himself . |
| 13 | Yeah well she does actually erm say to everyone in a rather creepy way that require do does n't she ? |
| 14 | He merely looked back at me in a rather peculiar silence . |
| 15 | She did not focus on the actual wording of the questions , and as a result answered them in a rather uncritical way . |
| 16 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
| 17 | He was being kind , she could tell , and not probing further , so she rewarded him with a rather watery smile , and said sententiously , ‘ There 's always a first time for everything . ’ |
| 18 | When they reached the hotel , he walked with her to her room , and she thanked him in a rather stilted voice for a very pleasant evening . |
| 19 | And then , walking behind her at a rather greater distance than might have been thought usual , came Linnet Gage in a dress that fell from her tiny waist as gracefully and naturally as a waterfall , each diaphanous tulle frill overlapping the other with perfect simplicity , her face as delicate and beautiful as rare porcelain , her blue eyes clouded by a dream of remote but tantalizing sweetness , which also touched the corners of her lips , raising them very slightly in a smile of which every man present must have wished to know the secret . |
| 20 | It brought forth a flood of French until Jenna stopped it with a rather desperate admission that she did not speak the language . |
| 21 | I see it with a rather different gloss . |
| 22 | He was absolutely right in that respect and I remember him delivering this homily at The Three Tuns and the people receiving it in a rather stony silence because they were not used to being lectured . |
| 23 | This decision might have been regarded as one asserting the value of individual choice , but the Court put it on a rather different basis , saying that ‘ the implementation of the rights conferred on the employees by the Directive could not be dependent on the consent either of the transferor or of the transferee or of the employees themselves , wit |
| 24 | Er we could talk about the customs , the English customs that have helped to er guide us as a rather new nation in our growth . |
| 25 | Okay so this strikes us as a rather eccentric claim er he does qualify it , he says that there may be cases where there are n't enough people of independent means in a country to present themselves , he does n't mean England here he means some of the dependent territories and then members of parliament should be paid compensation rather than a salary . |
| 26 | His face was covered in dirt and he grinned at us in a rather frightened way . |
| 27 | We picked our way through crates of beer and lemonade , and a man yelled ‘ Tovarich ’ at us in a rather threatening way . |