Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I do n't think that as a committee that we should be getting into the detail necessary of what 's going wrong and I think er Harold made that quite well . |
| 2 | I mean that quite literally . |
| 3 | When I say that I saw Karen at the funeral , I mean that quite literally . |
| 4 | ‘ Your penis would have broken right off inside her and I mean that quite literally . |
| 5 | we 're dealing with a horrendous fire here , we got ta have , shocking , do n't you think some quite shocking words some quite horrifying words , if you want to grab people 's attention |
| 6 | Forward , the ILP paper , which was not unsympathetic to women 's causes , including suffrage , nevertheless commented sternly : We do n't think this quite satisfactory . |
| 7 | The investigators had already developed some quite strong linguistic hunches , and while these often turned out to be fairly accurate , pilot work sometimes revealed that they were a little wide of the mark . |
| 8 | About once a week or fortnight I had to attend some quite high-powered meetings in London to which James came too , as I was feeding him at the time . |
| 9 | Now , I must make this quite clear to you , you ca n't actually mess around with time . |
| 10 | It will remind the elderly of that famous year when the great Ronald Politzer caused Collins to command entire book pages by producing some quite attractive books in the first week in January when no one else published any books at all . |
| 11 | The Mormons make some quite heavy demands as regards sexual or quasi-sexual observances . |
| 12 | The early 1880s also witnessed some quite extraordinary scenes of disorder when an organisation calling itself the ‘ Skeleton Army ’ mobilised these same roughs against the Salvation Army , attacking their meetings and bombarding the houses of sympathisers . |
| 13 | Archbishop Theodore made this quite clear when he subsequently reordained him through every ecclesiastical grade ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 15 ) , which was in effect to treat Chad as a layman despite his previous consecration . |
| 14 | I 've heard this quite a lot , it 's a , it 's a common |
| 15 | I found that quite amazing ; something to do with the speed and continuity of the journey . |
| 16 | I think they found that quite rewarding . |
| 17 | nervous now , you 're gon na be checking that quite a bit . |
| 18 | Judge Harper said that he found this quite astonishing . |
| 19 | Veuve du Vernay Brut Described as a classic sparkling French wine with a fresh dry taste and fruity bouquet we found this quite pleasing . |
| 20 | In other words , we 've been funding from within our own budget new developments that 'll come on stream next year and it 's a very complicated budget and it contains some quite erm controversial erm subjects , which no doubt we 'll go through in a minute , but overall erm , given the total financial situation , I 'm a relieved man today . |
| 21 | Nonetheless , we should keep the two patterns distinct , first as a matter of proper investigative practice , because the distinction though subtle is real ; second , because in a great many cases it does make a quite easily discernible difference to the interpretation intended and required ; and , third , because it has some quite substantial grammatical consequences . |
| 22 | And I think he meant , and I say this quite fair now , I think he meant to come straight up to me and brake suddenly to frighten me . |
| 23 | Among numerous negative results he found some quite simple compounds , aldehydes and fatty acids , which stimulated oxygen uptake . |
| 24 | Nothing I have experienced illustrates this quite like church planting because of the inherent risk of failure . |
| 25 | Many directors who come to opera from the theatre are incapable of understanding this quite special form of human expression . |
| 26 | Following the outbreak of civil war in 1642 , the revolutionary years of the 1640s and 1650s witnessed the attempts of a succession of governments to impose several quite distinct forms of established church on the English people . |
| 27 | It has twenty-two quite chunky and well-seated frets , and a low , buzz-free action testifies to quality of workmanship in this area , too . |
| 28 | Of the larger nationalities , the Buryat Mongols have four dialects , the recently ‘ consolidated ’ Altaians about six , the Khakass about five , and the Tuvans four , while even such a small community as the Enets Samoeds has two quite widely differing ‘ dialects ’ . |
| 29 | It is clear that AEA has two quite distinct missions : the first is to fulfil our traditional nuclear role by : |
| 30 | According to this view the inverted-U relationship between arousal and performance has two quite separate components . |