Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slept unexpectedly soundly , and when she next opened her eyes , daylight was filtering in through the rather grimy window . |
| 2 | Business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace , lunches were longer and boozier and I was far , far happier . |
| 3 | The whole enterprise is carried through with panache and — apart from the fact that it clocks in at a rather miserly total of only 52 minutes — the disc can be thoroughly recommended to anyone who wants a well-chosen selection of G&S numbers . |
| 4 | Once , at Lisson Grove , their car drew up alongside a rather battered Ford Cortina . |
| 5 | So it has proved , with that alert enthusiast Ashdown turning to the eminently qualified Anthony Lester , QC , who has come up with a rather different interpretation of events to that brought forward by the Law Officers . |
| 6 | The lace holes on his shoes are mapped out in a rather racy zigzag pattern , and he used to play in Patti Smith 's band . |
| 7 | The lace holes on his shoes are mapped out in a rather racy zigzag pattern , and he used to play in Patti Smith 's band . |
| 8 | As soon as he confessed what he knew , fumbling the hideous admission as they came out of a rather good film about love that he had hardly been able to stand , she managed to make it seem that it was he , not she , who was the disturber of their lives . |
| 9 | The contemporary academic debate among economists had become bogged down in a rather arid byway of marginal costing and subsidies , and provided little useful guidance on the substantive issues of the day . |
| 10 | When flushed dashes up and towers with a shrill ‘ weet-a-weet ’ note , much louder than Wood Sandpiper , before flying off with a rather snipe-like flight . |
| 11 | I get up at a rather late hour . |
| 12 | Thomist theology and philosophy were laid down in a rather ossified form as the normative Catholic intellectual system , drawn from the Middle Ages and therefore free of any taint of modern influence . |
| 13 | For those who did n't go , they started off with a rather perfunctory ‘ Summer Babe ’ , trawled through most of the album and then went through two shambolic encores . |
| 14 | If William and Harry were to be brought up in the rather stiff and formal atmosphere of the Palace after suffering the trauma of their parents ' splitting up , they would hardly end up as the secure , well-balanced people the Queen hopes will succeed her . |
| 15 | New York dealers A la Vieille Russie and Didier Aaron Inc have teamed up with a rather unlikely presentation of the art of Alexandre Iacovleff ( 1887–1938 ) . |
| 16 | Taking their lead from the ‘ gee-whizzers ’ of American journalism , a more colourful , gossipy style of writing took over from the rather self-consciously poetic late Victorian style with its ‘ hapless custodians ’ and ‘ leather spheroids ’ . |
| 17 | In the House of Lords , the argument went off on a rather different tack . |
| 18 | In so far as it reached out beyond the rather eccentric sect of the Comtist ‘ Religion of Humanity ’ , positivism became little more than a philosophical justification of the conventional method of the experimental sciences , and similarly for most contemporaries Mill was , again in the words of Taine , the man who had opened up ‘ the good old road of induction and experiment ’ . |
| 19 | Taken up with the rather generous terms that he imagined — as it turned out accompanied the post , he accepted . |
| 20 | ‘ A few more minutes to go , ’ she said , her face cheerful beneath dark hair scraped back into a rather severe French roll . |
| 21 | Ten years later , of course , he did come out after a rather agonizing process and he is now a gay activist himself in South London and the Labour Party . |
| 22 | It was only a short step from here to the so-called ‘ New Pop ’ of Duran Duran , Wham ! and Culture Club , with ABC standing by as a rather aloof and better-dressed alternative . |
| 23 | He charts an unfolding if uncertain logic which goes back to the way in which the welfare state was put together after the war , as pieces were tacked on in a rather haphazard way to existing state institutions . |
| 24 | I can lie on the floor , reach up in a rather contorted way and focus it myself , rather than shouting instructions to somebody else , as you have to with a more conventional one . ’ |
| 25 | The question occupied the hearts and minds of hundreds at the conference , was tossed around in a rather lack-lustre debate , and sparked flames of pub argument long into the night . |
| 26 | It is true that Eliot went through all the ritual gestures with almost perfect precision ; and his impeccably-dressed figure stood out among the rather battered brethren stationed in front of us . |