Example sentences of "have [verb] a rather [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only one : nose ( for noise ) which seems worse than it is , because the misspelling has produced a rather comic word , and we may feel she ought to have recognised it as the word it is , rather than the word she meant it to be . |
| 2 | Since Mesmer brought the subject to the attention of the scientific world , hypnotism has had a rather chequered career . |
| 3 | The Ministry of Defence has put a rather unusual property on the market . |
| 4 | Behavioural elements can be worked into a task-centred programme , teaching someone who has lived a rather isolated life how to begin to make conversation again . |
| 5 | And who as a result has acquired a rather topsy-turvy view of her own importance . |
| 6 | I 'd conjured a rather camp Major Sager , complete with Jimmy Edwards moustache and a bed of roses which he pruned incessantly . |
| 7 | Well if you asked me that ten or fifteen years ago I think I could have given a rather easy answer erm namely that development studies was concerned with the problems of countries in Africa , Asia and Latin America , and how they could erm accelerate their economic , social and political development to provide better living standards for all their population . |
| 8 | On the question of aggression by the North , there can be no doubt whatever that their ultimate object is to overrun the South ; and I think in the long term there is no doubt that they will do so , in which case , as you so aptly remark , the Americans will have made a rather handsome contribution of equipment to the military strength of Asiatic Communism . |
| 9 | If whatever happened to Summerchild had n't happened , I think , once again , then … then Timmy and I might have had a rather better quality of life . |
| 10 | I 'm not saying they 'd have been sucked down with the yacht but they might have had a rather uncomfortable time . ’ |
| 11 | The right hon. Gentleman may personally have achieved a rather soft landing , but sadly that was not true for the economy of which he was in charge . |
| 12 | All of this seems to have painted a rather gloomy picture . |
| 13 | Mrs Castle had formed a rather eccentric view about my scale of living . |
| 14 | Barbados had witnessed a rather different Hanif a year earlier as he took out a 16-hour 10-minute lease on the crease and sculpted a monumental 337 against Worrell and Co . |
| 15 | Some lady novelists were rather silly , and she herself had written a rather scathing article about silly lady novelists . |
| 16 | Eliot added that he had written a rather interesting poem about , here he turned to D'Arcy and asked : ‘ Who was the saint that had arrows stuck all over him ? ’ |
| 17 | The professor of experimental physics , a grand old man called Wien , was displeased that this brilliant young theorist had adopted a rather cavalier attitude to the laboratory classes which were provided . |
| 18 | Excuse me I 've got a rather heavy cold . |
| 19 | Because I 've got a rather stereo-typed type of hand , if you know what I mean ? |
| 20 | Erm the other thing was that the people at senior level need to be reminded , if they do have a major problem erm that 's David and Malcolm , erm where , if they 've got a rather difficult case and it 's urgent and they want a , they do n't wan na have to put it on a , on a fax , they want , they need it there and then erm , and they do n't like the telephone call facility , I said well , well that 's primarily for consultants . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've got a rather funny feeling at the bottom of my stomach . |
| 22 | I 've had a rather difficult time of it of late and it may be affecting my attitude to people . ’ |
| 23 | And we 've found a rather dirty enamel mug . |
| 24 | Tolkien had to take a rather strict line over ‘ myth ’ . |
| 25 | LONG before they emerged in last year 's French Championship final as an intimidating three-headed monster , breathing fire and brimstone , the Bègles-Bordeaux from row of Simon , Moscato and Gimbert had acquired a rather unsavoury reputation as a hard , mean trio who took no prisoners and believed in the virtues of swift , unsophisticated retribution . |
| 26 | Free-electron lasers on the whole have had a rather bad press . |
| 27 | In the past , crammers have had a rather tacky reputation , but as universities have become more demanding , most tutorial colleges have changed the nature of their operations in response . |
| 28 | ‘ He 's got a rather grand name but we simply call him Billy , ’ said dad , who would n't let go of his famous foam mallet with which he bashes kiddy guests on his long-running TV-am show , Wacaday . |
| 29 | But for the most part I have become a rather precious wayside nibbler , indulging in what the 1930s writer and fruit gourmet Edward Bunyard christened ‘ ambulant consumption ’ — single wild gooseberries ( squeezed to test for ripeness first ) ; sweet cicely seeds on walks before dinner , a kind of herbal aperitif ; squidgy dewberries eaten on the stalk , like cocktail cherries . |
| 30 | I think that the districts there possibly given the exception of Selby have taken a rather cautious approach as to what they anticipate being built in their areas within the Greater York area itself er over the next thirteen years . |