Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a rather [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is this all you 're putting on the Christmas cake this year ? ’ asked Mark , picking up a rather battered-looking plaster Father Christmas . |
| 2 | SIR — Your headline ‘ Kohl criticises Turkey ’ ( April 3 ) takes on a rather special meaning for those who realise that kohl in German means cabbage . |
| 3 | Had those early Communists received their education in a contemporary society , understood themselves and others better , they would have laid down a rather different and more workable framework for the new society . |
| 4 | So there might be an advantage in working late and coming home a rather roundabout way , she reflected . |
| 5 | But it was felt though , that it was necessary to support the document in order to clear up a rather unsatisfactory situation er , where we 're holding sectional and delegate conferences that do n't have remits and guidelines er , which can clarify their position . |
| 6 | It was inferred , by what seems now a rather wild speculation , that artificially produced fits might arrest the progress of schizophrenia . |
| 7 | The whole jape took on a rather serious complexion when the police refused to accept that it was all a joke . |
| 8 | Throughout the 1960s , politicians kept up a rather futile polemic as to whether the General cared about anything except foreign affairs . |
| 9 | The immense build-up made it impossible to find a decent anchor and , having stamped out a rather unstable stance , I had to settle for a couple of drive-ins in a clod of frozen turf . |
| 10 | What a pity Roman did n't take after any of them , she thought privately , smiling as Christian reached out a rather sticky little hand and tugged the poppy-flowered silk sleeve of her sheath-dress , and then caught at the heavy blonde plait at her nape . |
| 11 | My first memory is of falling off a rather high bed at the age of three years on the evening that my parents had moved into a house near the top of Hampstead Heath , and of my Father going off on his bicycle to search for a doctor as I had cut my head . |
| 12 | Seven years ago , needing more space for their family ( two daughters , currently both art students ) and their work , they decided to move , and to take on a rather dilapidated but unrestored farmhouse . |
| 13 | We carried on a rather halting conversation and it came to me with a bump that my mind had been forced on to different tracks since I had left her . |
| 14 | The preliminaries on this occasion extended over a rather lengthy period and so the 150 or so guests were in pretty good form when we eventually sat down to one of the best ‘ function type ’ meals that I have ever enjoyed . |
| 15 | Eventually , I ended up a rather poor student , so my games were very limited . |
| 16 | You might find one in tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands , but even he will turn out a rather feeble specimen . ’ |