Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] rather [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is there any real development and trend that could be explained perhaps in rather simple language to people like myself ? |
| 2 | The ‘ untalented , uneducated and ill-disposed louts ’ I described above in rather intemperate language before taking my walk will make much of the ‘ coincidence ’ ( as they will put it , with heavy irony , drawing out each syllable like bubble-gum ) that Miller also appears to share the outward marks of my own alleged ill-health . |
| 3 | And he had done it tactfully as well , just mentioning to one or two people who had Dierdriu 's ear that Grainne and Fergus were sometimes seen together in rather questionable circumstances . |
| 4 | Similar tragedies can occur even in rather unusual settings and caused by a different train of events , for example the North Sea Piper Alpha episode 1988 , where staff died either on the blazing oil installation or drowned in the surrounding sea of fire . |
| 5 | An informant from Aberdeen , where the last women were still working up until the 1950s , told me that these elderly women sometimes had little to do , were regarded rather as passengers and had to put up with rather disparaging remarks , but were kept on until retirement age by the firm , which felt it had obligations towards them . |
| 6 | Saturn your ruler is in exceptionally mood now so it is likely that you will have to put up with rather spartan conditions but you know how much is at stake for the future so you are happy to do without |
| 7 | Veronica 's father was Lord Somebody-or-other , she reminded herself , and did n't the aristocracy go in for rather grand affairs ? |
| 8 | I was here to win at all costs and did so in rather fine style . ’ |
| 9 | He went from there to a café called Café des Beaux Arts , decorated inside with rather dismal and bad frescoes . |
| 10 | Order large glass of dry sherry and feel its warmth penetrate toes , making up for rather painful new shoes . |