Example sentences of "[adj] reply was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | W HEN Callaghan returned , tanned but tired , on January 11 from a Caribbean summit he was asked about the state of crisis and his tetchy reply was paraphrased in the tabloid headlines as ‘ Crisis — What Crisis ? ’ |
| 2 | An emollient reply was drafted for me to send back . |
| 3 | But Ford 's only reply was to clutch his ribs and stagger towards the parapet . |
| 4 | When Narkomzem handed out a questionnaire with 226 questions at an All-Russian Congress of Agricultural Organizations , a single reply was returned . |
| 5 | The old man 's surprised reply was tinged with pleasure . |
| 6 | A formal reply was delivered to Gorbachev in Moscow on March 19 by a Lithuanian Supreme Council delegation led by Algirdas Brazauskas ( the independent Lithuanian Communist Party leader and formerly Lithuania 's President , and since March 17 a Deputy Premier in the new Lithuanian government ) . |