Sentence examples for I rather missed from inspiring English sources

"I rather missed out on play," he told me.

"In hindsight," he laughs, "you could say I rather missed the boat.

Nearer, in fact, to the B-movie easterns starring Maria Montez that Universal made in the 1940s than to Lawrence of Arabia, though no one actually says "It is written", which I rather missed.

I suspect I rather missed the point, but I did find a thrill in imagining an alternative ending where instead of strolling out to face the nothingness, Plath – a prolific baker herself – turned in her tracks, ambled back home and made blackberry-filled choux buns.

"I rather miss the days when matches like this included doctors, lawyers, miners, postmen and teachers.

Fine, but I rather miss the previous pod that took you into the drivers cab for the rush from London to Brighton in four minutes; grainy black and white film but real.

In a letter in 1988, he wrote: "Regarding my relationship with my three erstwhile partners - I rather miss their colourful and rich contributions to my life, but realise they work in areas in which I cannot participate.

They don't sound like Busted anymore (which is a good and bad thing - I rather miss Busted); they sound like the Beatles and the Ronettes and the Small Faces and a teenage Bruce Springsteen.

But as paradigms shift, there is not merely an excitement about the extended possibilities of the new form, but also a series of reactions – I had them myself – which might loosely be characterised as, at first, angry (I hate those ebooks), then defensive (alas, they are quite useful), then nostalgic (I rather miss real books), and finally accepting (couldn't live without my e-reader!).

I never thought I'd say this, but I suddenly rather miss the old 1980s Page 3 girls.

"I'd have been quite happy to play the Spanish, but I'd rather miss them because they are the favourites alongside Germany," added Hodgson.