"Thank you, Captain,"Dahak said, and if there was a certain smugness in the computer's bland reply, Acting Senior Fleet Captain Colin MacIntyre, forty-third commanding officer of Imperial Fleet UnitDahak, hull number 177291, chose to ignore it.

Such a bland reply gave him no opening wedge.

"The Douglas may merely slake his passion for fighting the earl," came William's bland reply.

"As you see, citizen," was Chauvelin's bland reply.

Remembering, she barely heard Polyon's bland reply that he had no intention of selling defective chips to anybody.

But Miss Cummings was not pleased when she asked about this custom and that-and the framing of a question was a tortuous process -and received the bland and irrelevant reply that she was this-unmarried-female.

'Instantaneous,' was the bland reply.

I shall cite no more than the written question on this subject submitted by my colleague Mr Happart in May 1990, and the Agriculture Commissioner's subsequent bland reply.

The Lodge agent made a bland reply.

"Entirely," came the bland reply.