Example sentences of "reply and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Adley : I thank my right Hon. Friend for that reply and declare an interest in the industry . |
| 2 | I had a hundred photocopies made of their reply and began another support-raising campaign , including a copy of the letter from the SAS with each request . |
| 3 | It is perhaps worth taking a minute or two to invite the Secretary of State to answer those arguments in his reply and to explain how they have been overcome in the new council tax system . |
| 4 | I let silence be my reply and wait for him to continue . |
| 5 | She grunted a reply and checked the lifts . |
| 6 | erm , er and I 'm have to take some time over this , so I think erm in the circumstances the better thing to do would be to adjourn this case till Monday morning and hope that Mr can so arrange his affairs to address me at half past ten on that day , er with Mr and with erm , whatever rights he has to erm deal with matters of this , come up a fresh in reply and to finish off , I 'm gon na leave it like that , a very much , and as I say as far , as far as tomorrow 's concerned that 's er not a difficulty with erm , either Mr informs me which is unlikely or I can , at least get a , make a start , er on the other aspects of the judgement , alright then half past ten on Monday morning |
| 7 | She muttered a brief reply and left . |
| 8 | The driver mumbled a non-committal reply and thrust a ten and two fives at the attendant . |
| 9 | He made some non-committal reply and thought no more about it until , a couple of days later , when the mob was actually storming the chancery building in the main square , he looked out of the window to see the assistant military attache playing the pipes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She could n't summon up a whacky death-dealing reply and went into their mother 's beautiful garden to cry . |
| 12 | Valenzuela choked out a reply and watched while Bratti was shot by ‘ Fifa ’ Palma Ramirez , one of the most savage officers . |
| 13 | I thank my hon. Friend for that reply and understand the Government 's appreciation of the need for mature women in the labour market . |
| 14 | Arghatun stopped speaking and bowed , but it was the older man who growled a reply and showed his teeth . |
| 15 | She seemed pleased with my reply and smiled that crafty smile of hers . |
| 16 | I always wrote the replies and told him the news and reassured him that Mum was watching his widow , which it gave her great pleasure to do . |
| 17 | This column aims to summarise the essence of replies and answer any queries about the proper response to a reply from a Government , Embassy or Human Rights Organisation . |
| 18 | When they tried to question him they received unintelligible replies and realised he was drunk . |
| 19 | Let him amuse the Emperor ( Napoleon III ) with evasive replies and let him annihilate Austria for ever . |
| 20 | A monarch 's speech at a state opening of parliament , though spoken , is far from the reciprocal end of the scale , but a scribbled memo from one teacher to another , though written , may trigger off a series of replies and counter replies , and is thus highly reciprocal . |
| 21 | With closed questions it is easier to count the replies and perform statistical operations on them , but it is difficult to get at what the respondent really thinks about something . |
| 22 | Chase up late invitation replies and finalise guest list . |