Sentence examples for down a rather from inspiring English sources

This for a young man who is still a little self-conscious, because Bale remains, deep down, a rather shy young man.

As he began this historical exposition, Viktor put down a rather large bottle of beer and spoke carefully with just a slight trace of an intoxicated slur.

But an equally interesting conversation might well have been that between Fonteyn, the glittering star of the Royal Ballet for 40 years, and Cunningham, who signed for Leyton Orient at the age of 16 after turning down a rather different offer from the Ballet Rambert.

Swift goes full-on Fatal Attraction: she screams and cries with a mascara-streaked face, throws a plant at him, cuts up his shirts, tries to chop down a rather large tree upon which she had carved their names, bashes his expensive car with a golf club and wields one very large knife in a crime against pastry.

"I don't think it is a crossroads so much as going down a rather treacherous road and not knowing what perils are around the corner".

Leading Conservatives are down only a statistically insignificant single point since 2003 (20% then, 19% now) – but they are down a rather more worrying 10 points since their 29% peak in August 2010, shortly after that year's general election.

The quality was only let down by a rather sunny-looking Christmas, and blossom still on the trees in November.

With a final appeal to the home secretary's conscience, White sat down to a rather reluctant standing ovation.

The lights go down on a rather stunned silence: the audience, if not the man who played him, loved String.

This fever dream of a novel traces Cantor's "desire to find the perfect whore to settle down with," a rather insatiable goal.

However the LHC, which was commissioned to great acclaim in September 2008, closed down in a rather embarrassing puff of helium gas from its cooling system nine days later.