1.   The two women become reluctant partners and roommates.

2.   The flea by John Donne dramatises a conventional poetic situation, in which an eager lover tries to dissuade a reluctant partner from her coy attitude to sexual behaviour.

3.   As bigger banks courted him, Alvord in recent months was a reluctant partner.

4.   But that seemed to hamstring the European Central Bank, because it forced it to wait until it could coordinate with an obviously reluctant partner.

5.   For now the Montenegrin government, the reluctant junior partner of Serbia in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, retains tentative control.

6.   For Washington, a political complication was keeping reluctant partners in its coalition.

7.   I spent five years as his reluctant birding partner.

8.   In short, is it better to have the United States as a reluctant partner or to act alone as a decisive player?

9.   Murray never had met Kiam, but he was now his reluctant partner.

10.   Of the two republics left in the Yugoslav federation, Montenegro is a reluctant junior partner to Serbia.