Example sentences of "[verb] quite [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was another problem : he was becoming quite attached to me , in the way that children-especially the privileged children of the East do become attached to their servants . |
| 2 | Interestingly , most people 's attitudes towards this appear quite accepting ; often , the anticipation of dying seems to be less traumatic than dealing with the problems associated with ageing itself . |
| 3 | The sources of his inspiration were many — ranging from Irish folklore and custom to the politics of international socialism — but his voice was uniquely his own ; in the words of Eavan Boland , ‘ no one else has quite had his themes ; no one else has quite ventured on his enquiries ’ . |
| 4 | It has considerable agility , and its powers of dry staccato have been so much exploited that this form of musical humour has quite lost its savour nowadays . |
| 5 | And he has quite forgotten his past until , during a London visit to his erstwhile playmate , the 92-year-old ‘ Grandma Wendy ’ ( Maggie Smith ) , Hook ( Dustin Hoffman ) spirits Banning 's children away to Neverland in an attempt to lure his old adversary back . |
| 6 | And he has quite forgotten his past until , during a London visit to his erstwhile playmate , the 92-year-old ‘ Grandma Wendy ’ ( Maggie Smith ) , Hook ( Dustin Hoffman ) spirits Banning 's children away to Neverland in an attempt to lure his old adversary back . |
| 7 | It 's been an odd kind of fulfilment ; and it has quite knocked on the head all the priggish ideas I may have had , and given me a sense of values . |
| 8 | Reports from the OECD and NATO 's science committee have come to similar conclusions , but so far no one has quite got it together to act on a Europe wide scale . |
| 9 | Your last kind blessing to my Pamela has quite melted me . |
| 10 | Then , before he has quite finished , and he 's associating the trailer with a good place to be , take the horse away and repeat the Meals on Wheels business again the next day . |
| 11 | The sources of his inspiration were many — ranging from Irish folklore and custom to the politics of international socialism — but his voice was uniquely his own ; in the words of Eavan Boland , ‘ no one else has quite had his themes ; no one else has quite ventured on his enquiries ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Of course , I 'd quite forgotten , ’ Frau Nordern said . |
| 13 | I 'd quite forgotten till now . |
| 14 | Do you know , I 'd quite forgotten . |
| 15 | ‘ My goodness , I 'd quite forgotten … all the drama put it right out of my head . |
| 16 | He 'd felt so pleased , victorious even , after leaving the depot , that he 'd quite forgotten about dropping the form . |
| 17 | He 's keeping himself so busy , he 'd quite forgotten that this weekend is the 6th anniversary of the accident . |
| 18 | Once you are practised at this sort of relaxation you will feel quite refreshed afterwards . |
| 19 | Edward seemed quite grown up , quiet and interesting — and very good-looking instead of pretty like his baby brother ! |
| 20 | She felt the shrugging of his shoulders as if he were trying to forget for a little while the fear that never seemed quite to leave him . |
| 21 | He muttered something under his breath and she wanted to ask him to repeat it , but could n't somehow , so silence fell again and lapped peacefully round them so that time seemed quite to vanish . |
| 22 | He seemed quite to have lost the preoccupied air that had troubled Hazel the night before . |
| 23 | And Fred , 28 — who topped the charts with ‘ I 'm Too Sexy ’ — seemed quite impressed by it . |
| 24 | In fact , he seemed quite taken with her . |
| 25 | ‘ Emily and me can take care of the shop ; you have a rest while you can — you look quite washed out . |
| 26 | Towards the end you may well become quite wrapped up in yourself and the growing baby and increasingly remote from the rest of the world . |
| 27 | Well they seem quite tempted . |
| 28 | Her mood swings quite frighten me sometimes . |
| 29 | And get quite did n't you say , eight horses or something , fifteen . |
| 30 | I 'd gone off of it until we opened that one on Sunday when you came over and I 'd finished it by Tuesday , I was getting quite hooked on it |