Example sentences of "[adj] reply [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you for your prompt reply to my letter about the hedges on Trough Road and Gubberford Lane . |
| 2 | Now , I think this is a very interesting reply to our advert . |
| 3 | Geoffrey says he 's considering writing another letter to the Prime Minister asking him for a proper reply to his questions . |
| 4 | Oh well , well er most of us are b even , even the Tories themselves know , they know that we 're fighting for the old people , but do they we get the same old reply from them , where is the money coming ? |
| 5 | Representatives of Conservative Central Office helped Heseltine 's local constituency association to draft a public reply to his open letter declaring its support for the leadership . |
| 6 | I have received earlier dismissive replies from his Department and from the Departments of Employment and of Social Security . |
| 7 | When Eliot had spoken well of me in the reply to John Garrett , to which I have referred , the latter was slightly miffed , I could tell ; for although he showed it me with some pride as being a favourable reply to his request , he countered the praise it contained by saying that Eliot was being far too kind to an absolute novice . |
| 8 | Think of the likely replies to your question ; think of the vocabulary you will meet . |
| 9 | She measures out her guarded replies to him in neat , carefully checked words , as once she had suggested , from the top of the steps outside their front door , that Millie might like to invite me in for a few minutes . |
| 10 | Mr Gummer is inclined to give a snap reply to his critics , when he would do better to check carefully what they have said . |
| 11 | The College wrote to tell me of the embarrassing reply of my referee , and my supervisor got on to Bondi and refreshed his memory . |
| 12 | But , as prisoners see it , the new system means only that they receive negative replies to their complaints more quickly . |
| 13 | She was still pondering on his use of her name as the taxi drove through the dark city streets , the driver having given up on any hopes of conversation after a couple of monosyllabic and nonsensical replies from his customer . |
| 14 | I might have made an angry reply about her own flaunting of herself at the male Ardakkean , but there was nothing to be gained by it . |
| 15 | Within Hinduism a classical reply to what or who is Brahman is neti-neti — " not this , not this " . |
| 16 | Whether or not the criticisms were mistaken ( and many were not ) , failure even to notice them , let alone reply to them , indicates gross bias in the ANSR report . |
| 17 | However , Singer objected to the importation of moral personality by contractualists like John Rawls on two main grounds and we are now in a position to supplement my provisional replies to his argument . |
| 18 | You find your typewriter tapping out or your pencil scrawling a yet more thrusting reply from your heroine , one that surprises even you yourself . |
| 19 | So Hannah , 16 , penned an open reply in her dad 's parish magazine . |
| 20 | Those were my spoken replies to my mother , but my unspoken one was that it was up to me , and not to her , to decide when and to what extent I was either cold or hungry . |
| 21 | Resigned to being detained for several minutes , Melissa forced herself to be pleasant , making suitable replies to his comments on the weather and agreeing that it was a bit unsettled , that frost was still likely to be a problem but was only to be expected at this time of year . |