Example sentences of "[verb] rather a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ Fritz went red , which , Erika thought , made rather a nice change from her own blushing , and looked at his shoes . |
| 2 | Aunt Janice was clothed ( shirt and jeans ) , which made rather a refreshing change , and standing in the hallway . |
| 3 | But subsequent inquiries revealed rather a different story . |
| 4 | I think we have given rather a gloomy vision of what being a parent is |
| 5 | ‘ Though you did make rather a big dent in my dignity . |
| 6 | But it would make rather a lovely weekend home . ’ |
| 7 | In 1956 the Marlboro cigarette , formerly considered rather a ladylike thing to smoke , acquired its cowboy , with a tattoo on the back of his hand and the message : ‘ A man 's cigarette that women like too ’ . |
| 8 | Eventually they become quite large , reaching six inches or more , so you will need rather a large tank for them . |
| 9 | Arthur has rather a light teaching load . |
| 10 | Chris bumped his head again while snorkelling and now has rather an impressive bandage ! |
| 11 | She thought that she was becoming rather an accomplished liar . |
| 12 | The four men , as McKenzie had suggested , did present rather an odd spectacle . |
| 13 | It seemed rather an odd thing to do , but perfectly in tune with the occasion . |
| 14 | It seemed rather an historic moment , but I put the thought aside ; one must not get sentimental , and everything had been done properly , had been left in order and as it should be . |
| 15 | I 'd just made rather a good job of denting his back bumper . ’ |
| 16 | I 've had rather a surprising piece of news , that 's all . ’ |
| 17 | having had rather a nasty shock when I had the car serviced the other day . |
| 18 | You know she never has liked village people , and she 's always had rather a squashing way towards kids . |
| 19 | I 've had rather a hard day — well , I 'm sure you can imagine . ’ |
| 20 | Leonora 's had rather a disturbing adventure . |
| 21 | I 've just had rather a disturbing meeting with one of my girlfriends . ’ |
| 22 | erm I must confess I 've always had rather a soft spot for macro mutations , I do n't know why , it may have had something to do with Goldsmith 's prose , which is sort of rather moving when you get into it , erm and partly , and this is an interesting comment as an aside , that I knew as an undergraduate that to argue in favour of Goldsmith would make my teachers in general , and Professor J B S Halldane in particular , exceedingly angry and making one 's teachers angry is , after all , one of the activities into which undergraduates should occasionally go . |
| 23 | To have accumulated only a few examples of candidate black holes might sound rather a thin result . |
| 24 | This meant that the USA was actually borrowing overseas , although admittedly paying rather a low rate of interest in real terms ( after allowing for inflation , the real rate of interest on US Treasury bills was 1½ per cent per annum over the years 1960–6 ) . |
| 25 | So that had she been able to take her history exam , she would have needed rather a good grade there , perhaps a better grade than her past performance suggested she would have attained . |
| 26 | ‘ From what I 've seen of him , I 'd say he 's got rather a perverse sense of humour and enjoys winding people up , ’ said Melissa , remembering in particular his brush with Alain Gebrec the previous afternoon over the controversial book . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , my husband says I 've got rather a good voice , ’ she responded . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've got rather a big order , ’ she said , ‘ mostly for slippers but one or two pairs of shoes I have to make in French calf . ‘ |
| 29 | It does look rather a big document , you know . |
| 30 | played rather a dirty trick on me because he did n't tell me that I was expected to make a speech . |