Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a rather [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I had a rather nerve-racking experience with him when I was working the horse rake in the lower field . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've a rather special wine I 've been saving for you to sample , Naylor , ’ Guthrie addressed his nephew as they began to tuck into a starter of scampi in flaky pastry . |
| 3 | She has a rather histrionic outlook on life sometimes . |
| 4 | Oh , lord , she inwardly groaned ; if this was Vendelin Gajdusek , then she had a rather unhappy feeling that she had made a terrible start ! |
| 5 | We would visit her on occasions and I remember she had a rather splendid grandfather clock . |
| 6 | She had a rather broad face , pale as cream , and dotted with freckles . |
| 7 | Apparently , missing Glyn showed how incompetent she was , and she had a rather annoying vision of him going into see Ned Clarke and passing on the information with a sceptical look , a sort of ‘ what will these women get up to next ? ’ expression . |
| 8 | He bent to hear what she was saying , because she had a rather soft voice . |
| 9 | We got her from Sidney Fawcett , but she had a rather unfortunate weakness . |
| 10 | Of course we had a rather unsuitable contraption , described as a ‘ continental ’ tent . |
| 11 | We used to be their pet band until we had a rather silly disagreement onstage . |
| 12 | We have a rather special restaurant just outside town — a place where the Spaniards go to eat , not the tourists . |
| 13 | We have a rather significant research effort . |
| 14 | But they 've a rather shorter run planned this birthday celebration . |
| 15 | They were far too interested in girls and vodka , and they had a rather negative influence on the colonists . ’ |
| 16 | Because they are common in aquatic environments they have a rather good fossil record , and are not uncommon in freshwater sediments of Jurassic and Cretaceous age . |
| 17 | But before they emerge as adults they have a rather longer incarnation as larvae walking about the river bottom . |
| 18 | But he has a rather curious story which the Commissioner at New Scotland Yard has asked us to look into . |
| 19 | ‘ My conversation with him this evening made me realise that he can be quite devious , and also that he has a rather cruel sense of humour . |
| 20 | I 've only been in Dick 's flat once and the most interesting thing I 've gleaned about him is that he never uses washing-up liquid and he has a rather interesting pile of yellowing press cuttings sitting on a shelf . |
| 21 | I think it has a rather shaky present here but it 's got a very solid present in other countries at the moment , where I think feminism is one of the most dynamic movements . |
| 22 | The jet is visible ( it has a rather different structure from jets considered elsewhere in this book because of the motion of the surrounding fluid ) . |
| 23 | So , point six erm okay look at the sentences one and two under six , one is apparently ill-formed , herself left , except in I think some Irish dialects actually yes , well it has a rather special meaning where herself is given special status erm in the context , but in normal English , English herself left is ill-formed , but two , Florence saw herself is fine herself is a reflective pronoun refers that herself each other or one another , the other are reflective pronouns . |
| 24 | It was a kind face , but it had a rather masterful look about it . |
| 25 | ‘ My uncle , ’ said Wendy , expanding further on her family , ‘ was Provost of Dumfries ; he had a rather odd name — ‘ Chicken ’ . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I know he had a rather possessive attitude towards her-I told you about that time he came into her class , did n't I ? — but from the way he looked at her , you 'd have thought she was the most perfect and precious thing on earth to him . |
| 27 | But he had a rather military approach to the work and he did run some rather tough courses for some of the boys , so one of the parents complained . |
| 28 | They were n't police ; one of them had a rather foreign look . |