Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] reply " in BNC.
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| 1 | My lame reply protested that people in business were just as interested as anyone else but their noses were kept very close to their own grindstones . |
| 2 | I forwarded my official reply to the group … as that had ITs mail address … maybe Gavin could check the list of names and see whose mail IT is reading ? |
| 3 | I enclose herewith a photocopy of my suggested replies to the various categories , with the exception of ‘ What is your planned use of reserves ? ’ and ‘ What is your Regional charge on band D of the Council Tax ? ’ , both of which I will leave for you to insert at the appropriate time . |
| 4 | The last communication had been a letter from somewhere on the west coast of America , and my eventual reply had been returned ‘ not known at this address ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | My first reply to that is : ‘ It does n't have to come right . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In my earlier reply I told the House what action the United Kingdom Government have taken , in concert with our partners in the European Community and other civilised countries , to condemn utterly the conduct of the Burmese Government and to call for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi . |
| 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 | When she returned from one of the innumerable meetings and one of her daughters asked who had been present , her usual reply would be , ‘ Oh , the Great and the Good . |
| 11 | Her definitive reply was ‘ Because when he comes into a room I never know what he is going to say . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It has to rain sometimes , ’ she stated pleasantly , and loved it when , apparently amused by her philosophical reply , he laughed . |
| 13 | The chimes of bells which stood in every district of the city were being rung as they sat down — both because the ringers had been amply bribed and because they thought it politic to honour Artai and his chief supporter — and a small orchestra of trumpets and tambours had been hired by a steward and was accommodated in the yard , so that Burun 's speech of welcome to his guests , as well as their affable replies , were conducted with much opening and shutting of mouths and a deal of dumb show . |
| 14 | He told her that he was going to continue writing to her , nothing deterred by her cold reply or rather lack of a reply . |
| 15 | And Gaily took her quick reply for unwillingness , too , and decided that they did not know one another well enough yet to ask such questions , such casual , family questions , as between friends . |
| 16 | Her small-voiced reply was all but lost in the wind . |
| 17 | While Dennis maundered on , Karen filled her mouth with my shoulder and neck , then broke away to shout her brief replies in as normal a voice as possible . |
| 18 | These early letters to Helen are now lost and are merely reflected in her long replies from Margate and Rotherfield . |
| 19 | Her confident reply dissuaded him from further questions along this line . |
| 20 | He could not even mention to Dinah that he felt uncertain , unsteady , blind with pain ; he could imagine her brisk reply ‘ Take it to a doctor . ’ |
| 21 | The abrupt encounter , the strangeness of his question and the equal strangeness of her unpremeditated reply threw her mind into a turmoil . |
| 22 | She knew she was being baited , and yet she could not stop her shocked reply . |
| 23 | An instantaneous , violent urge to shake that remote calm , to see emotion in those serene , fathomless eyes , surged through him at her cool reply . |
| 24 | The master printers readily concurred with " the desirability of gradually reducing the ratio of female to male labour employed in hand-setting " in their first reply to the ETS committee in January 1910 , but " they did not mention the proposal to replace the monotype keyboard operators by male union labour " . " |
| 25 | Since then she has written to tell us of her first reply and we thought you 'd also be interested in some of the suggestions that came in , including Dee Murton 's account of the origin of these cardboard cones which was news to us . |
| 26 | She would write her first reply in the bathroom , turning on the geyser to pretend she was having a bath and writing joyfully on a breadboard balanced on the small wooden basin ( they used a breadboard as a bathmat on the freezing floor , because he liked the genuineness of natural wood ) . |
| 27 | Although an official response has already been sent off , Newsline readers may wish to pen their own reply and let us see if they can be as imaginative as the original writer . |
| 28 | Would she have liked to live in another time , I enquired , and her surprising reply was not entirely serious . |
| 29 | Dr Mowlam Redcar MP since 1987 said in her written reply : ‘ I am still a member of CND and I still want the country rid of nuclear weapons . |
| 30 | Her anguished reply appeared to give him pause , but he had no time to follow it up , as the organ began to play the triumphal entry of the Queen of Sheba . |