Humans had been rather careless about living things.
Compared with other couples, they had been rather well off.
And yet it had been rather a good game.
I had been rather devout – a regular church goer, even in the army.
Here was where somebody who had been rather quiet at dinner might begin to shine.
The impact of the Muslims on Spanish life and traditions had been rather different from that of the Jews.
Here, she had the defects of her qualities, for it would have helped if she had been rather more intellectual.
It allowed our children, who had been rather discouraged by the hassle of Marrakech, to discover a gentler Morocco.
Schmidt said it was wrong to suggest that Michelle Obama had been "rather peeved" at the group shot.
He remembered that it had been rather fun scribbling in the fifteen minutes between appointments, or sitting on a hallway bench in the courthouse.
Mr Johnson's individual interview with Mr Marr had been rather unenlightening (the classically minded mayor compared the Labour leader's housing plans to those of Emperor Diocletian).
