Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] rather a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact I felt rather a lout in my working clothes among the elegant gathering . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We made small talk to everyone we knew and I drank rather a lot of gin and ginger ale . |
| 4 | You got rather a lot of beans . |
| 5 | ‘ Then you took rather a lot for granted , did n't you ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That way they raised rather a lot of money . |
| 9 | Deception was another of the subjects that they knew rather a lot about at the Foreign Office . |
| 10 | It cost rather a lot , Nigel discovered when he looked at the bills he was expected to pay . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |