Example sentences of "[vb past] rather a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could detect a purr of satisfaction when John Major replied that actually some other European countries made rather a mess of things : that Belgium had taken 100 days to form a government ; that the Italian political system was a disaster and the French one not much better ; and that , if they had any sense , they would copy the way we do things . |
| 2 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 3 | You got rather a lot of beans . |
| 4 | It cost rather a lot , Nigel discovered when he looked at the bills he was expected to pay . |
| 5 | Boxing Day seemed rather an anti-climax . |
| 6 | That way they raised rather a lot of money . |
| 7 | Deception was another of the subjects that they knew rather a lot about at the Foreign Office . |
| 8 | ‘ Then you took rather a lot for granted , did n't you ? ’ |
| 9 | However , Glashow himself remarked that the Nobel committee really took rather a gamble , because we do not yet have particle accelerators of high enough energy to test the theory in the regime where unification between the electromagnetic forces , carried by the photon , and the weak forces , carried by the W + , W - , and Z , really occurs . |
| 10 | In fact I felt rather a lout in my working clothes among the elegant gathering . |
| 11 | Ten million dollars down the drain sounded rather a lot . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know how much you know about Hugh 's private life , but the fact is he had rather a crush on me . |
| 13 | I had rather a dread of this post 's conveyance for it was only a spring cart , and I thought I felt myself being bumped , but as it was I enjoyed this nine miles in the post gig better than all the drives I had had . |
| 14 | The doctor who appeared was R. E. Havard , and after five minutes of talk about influenza ( Lewis had rather a fondness for discussing symptoms man to man ) , they fell to some ethical or philosophical talk . |
| 15 | We had rather a lot to drink , and before I knew where I was I found myself being hustled into a broom closet by three men . |
| 16 | Actually Oi ! was a mock-working class derivation of punk rock invented by a pig-faced scab which , thanks to the cowardice and stupidity of its main advocates , had rather a lot of Nazi scum amongst its rather dim cockernee fan base . |
| 17 | We made small talk to everyone we knew and I drank rather a lot of gin and ginger ale . |