Example sentences of "reply [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Mellowes had drafted a reply for him to read out .
2 And in return , I promise you that if I get from you the reply for which I hope , I will be about your business presently .
3 I might have made an angry reply about her own flaunting of herself at the male Ardakkean , but there was nothing to be gained by it .
4 The College wrote to tell me of the embarrassing reply of my referee , and my supervisor got on to Bondi and refreshed his memory .
5 Now , she held the letter of reply before her and sighed ; it seemed that Croydon and Cooper , Leather Importers , wanted more than she was able to offer .
6 However , with respect , Mr. Speaker , I have seen your reply in which you said that using the crest of the House of Commons on such material was not an offence , so I hope that you are not referring to that aspect of the issue that the tell-tale Member has just raised with you .
7 So Hannah , 16 , penned an open reply in her dad 's parish magazine .
8 Th th the more , the better remit we write , if you like , in reply in our contract and the more erm
9 The best that Loughborough could manage was a penalty in reply from their full-back Chris Dossett after 18 minutes .
10 Did he write to all the dukes and get a reply from them all ?
11 Oh well , well er most of us are b even , even the Tories themselves know , they know that we 're fighting for the old people , but do they we get the same old reply from them , where is the money coming ?
12 they 've had a copy of the order , we have heard no reply from them so
13 when I wanted some help or who to invite to meetings but because I have n't got a reply from everyone or most people , it ca n't work does it ?
14 He wrote his plea as follows : if he had n't had a reply from her before noon on the last day of the week ( which meant return post ) he would trouble her no more .
15 ‘ I tried to call you but there was no reply from your flat . ’
16 You find your typewriter tapping out or your pencil scrawling a yet more thrusting reply from your heroine , one that surprises even you yourself .
17 Because what I 'd like to do is give people a view as to how they can best formulate their letters to you to get the right kind of reply from you .
18 Mr Kray spoke up in reply from his fortified Nottingham retreat to say that in fact Mr McVitie 's remains are to be found in Whitstable Bay , Kent .
19 Her letter was marked private and confidential , but instead of a reply from his office , she received notification from the Social Work Services Group that her letter had been passed to the chairman of both Orkney Children 's Panel and the local Panel Advisory Committee .
20 This elicited a reply from his secretary , Brigid O'Donovan , on 12 May , confirming this date .
21 ‘ I 've been trying to get him but there 's no reply from his home .
22 But Rosemarie felt so strongly that mum suggested she write to director Steven Spielberg … and to her surprise she received a reply from his scientific adviser Don Lessem in Massachusetts .
23 During the discussion , one of the French counsellors proposed that Edward was bound to swear fealty , as well as homage to Philip V. Edward 's own words in reply to what he clearly considered an outrageous suggestion survive : they were spoken without the advice of his council , apparently because they had difficulty in hearing the king 's whispered words and he lost patience .
24 Within Hinduism a classical reply to what or who is Brahman is neti-neti — " not this , not this " .
25 Luxemburg was vigorously criticised by a number of leading Marxists at that time , such as Otto Bauer and Karl Kautsky , and while she was in prison during the First World War she wrote a reply to her critics .
26 He made no reply to her challenge , but his eyes were alight with devilish laughter as he unhitched her horse .
27 But the reply to her letter had been so cold .
28 Charlotte Campbell was more than delighted to have received a reply to her letter for the position of children 's nanny which she had seen advertised in The Times .
29 There was no reply to her calls so the lifeboat continued to search out to the west of the area .
30 And he felt the strange eagle in the cage next to his waiting for a reply to her question about where he had come from .
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