Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] reply [verb] " 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Her confident reply dissuaded him from further questions along this line . |
| 4 | The abrupt encounter , the strangeness of his question and the equal strangeness of her unpremeditated reply threw her mind into a turmoil . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His voice had become more terse with each of her questions , and now his brief reply caused Isabel to fall silent . |
| 7 | His impatient reply made her hackles rise even as a tiny treacherous thrill slithered along her veins . |
| 8 | Do you not think that almost regardless of the reply and whatever that reply contained , with what we now know with the benefit of hindsight about Liechtenstein , which was actually known by I M R O there 's not for the benefit of hindsight that was n't known at that time , should n't I M R O have refused immediately to license any organisation that was controlled out of Liechtenstein in those circumstances ? |