Example sentences of "have rather a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arthur has rather a light teaching load . |
| 2 | I 've had rather a surprising piece of news , that 's all . ’ |
| 3 | having had rather a nasty shock when I had the car serviced the other day . |
| 4 | You know she never has liked village people , and she 's always had rather a squashing way towards kids . |
| 5 | I 've had rather a hard day — well , I 'm sure you can imagine . ’ |
| 6 | Leonora 's had rather a disturbing adventure . |
| 7 | I 've just had rather a disturbing meeting with one of my girlfriends . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Incidentally , that person must have rather a big mouth , because your shameful little secret 's public knowledge there now . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , I did have rather a bad night . ’ |
| 11 | Wolfgang , meanwhile , was having rather a good time in Vienna on his own , staying sometimes with his friends Leutgeb the horn-player and the Puchbergs , who kept him fed , and going out drinking with an old friend , Emmanuel Schikaneder , an actor , singer , writer and producer and the manager of the Theater auf der Wieden in the suburbs . |
| 12 | He — well , he seems to have rather a low opinion of the Pentagon . ’ |
| 13 | The early sea urchins tend to have rather a large number of plates in a much less regular mosaic than their later relatives . |
| 14 | The phrase had rather a stylish ring to it he 'd decided . |
| 15 | Erm towards the end of the year and the erm and Spear erm Spear had rather a good year , so that 's our capital insurance company in Bermuda erm no claims . |
| 16 | The initial shock must have been terrible , but in fact she had rather a good war . |
| 17 | Willi , surprisingly , had rather a pleasant tenor voice . |
| 18 | ‘ I had rather a rough passage with Canon Wheeler over the sermon , ’ she said , and explained . |
| 19 | Getting to the Health Centre was a tedious business involving a bus and a clanking ride for a few stops on the underground and Erika was glad to find her way to it , jammed among the usual blocks of flats , although at that time of night they had rather a festive air with every window lighted . |
| 20 | Call Me Old Fashioned , I thought was a good title , and A Licence to Print Money would have been another good title for a bestseller , but it had rather a rapacious sound do n't you think ? |
| 21 | Yesterday 's Times had rather a worried headline . " |
| 22 | The Kalkadoon had rather a different perspective . |
| 23 | I remember November 5 , 1953 , when a tendency to clear up had rather a disastrous consequence . |
| 24 | The children have rather a low opinion of you , I imagine . ’ |
| 25 | In fact in my company we have rather a good scheme . |
| 26 | Scientists have rather a bad press in these lists , as well as tending to drag down the market value of their places of study , or so it seems to the editors . |