Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can see we 've made quite a saint out of your little Gabriel . ’ |
| 2 | I see I 've got quite a lot to learn about them . |
| 3 | I see you 've got quite a full house here . |
| 4 | At the moment , he would have given quite a lot to stay here , and never return to the other cities again . |
| 5 | But I lied about the afternoon and I was worried when you wanted to keep the betting slips because you probably know that one of the horses won and I would have won quite a lot of money if I 'd stayed in the betting shop . |
| 6 | Oh yeah , i in that way er certainly when he produced the bonus contract to go with the saw table , you know we w that was fairly plain , that production would have risen in his estimates quite considerably , and yet our wages in fact would have dropped quite considerably so , yes I mean er it did n't seem quite to tally in the way we would have like to have seen it . |
| 7 | The solution must have looked quite funny to an onlooker . |
| 8 | He had never thought of trying to foster an attachment which he would have considered quite improper . |
| 9 | The trouble is , we now know that they are being re-issued … and we have cause to think that they might have undergone quite extensive modifications . |
| 10 | Morgan must have done quite well out of his business , being able to afford the rent on the entire house . |
| 11 | Probably I could have done quite a bit better if I 'd been forced to work , because if I 'm not , I 'm not so bothered to do the work . |
| 12 | ‘ Though after last night … ’ his glance raked her face ‘ … maybe you 'd have done quite well out of the deal if you 'd bothered to follow through . ’ |
| 13 | She was still trying to cope with what she was beginning to realise was her over-reaction , though she could n't have said quite why she should feel so alarmed , when he told her coolly , ‘ You misunderstand me , Miss Everett , ’ and was on his feet too as , looking arrogantly down at her , he stated bluntly , ‘ Should I ever be so lucky as you suggest , then , be sure of it , I 'd throw away my rabbit 's foot , ’ and having forthrightly left her under no illusion but that should he ever get saddled with her then he would consider his luck had run out , he went on toughly , ‘ I already know the answer , but , for the record , I want to hear it from you — are you just playing around with Travis for the pure hell of it — or , ’ his voice had taken on a grim edge , ‘ are you in love with him ? ’ |
| 14 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 15 | No comparable list existed for England , where it is doubtful if architects and stockbrokers would have rated quite so high or gardeners and miners so low . |
| 16 | Lord Derby , who steered the Act through Parliament , would have felt quite at home with the parliamentary debate which took place after the 1952 smog some 90 years later . |
| 17 | Had Joss Barnet not joined her this morning she might have felt quite differently about the plan . |
| 18 | o over there cos it , it must be must have felt quite isolated |
| 19 | God you must have felt quite silly |
| 20 | Like all prophecy , the signs were in the eye of the beholder , and perhaps another witness would have seen quite different forms In the blur . |
| 21 | Other selective forces may have operated quite recently and left a strong memory or image in the structure of the population 's genetics . |
| 22 | We must have made quite a sight trailing along the road with scythes , rakes , forks , the sledge and the sweep , mowing machine , and our food in a basket . |
| 23 | My mother must have made quite big money in tips , for the records of her savings , no longer a secret , show quite fabulous sums being stored away in the early sixties . |
| 24 | I do n't think I would have made quite so much impact , however , if it had n't been for the fact that , while they were carrying me round the church yelling , ‘ Aliens ! ’ 'Jesus Christ ! ’ and ‘ The snake cometh ! ’ the roof fell in . |
| 25 | Young Michael would almost certainly have died quite soon . |
| 26 | Their minds are somehow not right for it ; in some other discipline they might have performed quite respectably . |
| 27 | The transformation of David ( David Naughton ) from nice New York Jewish boy to very scary werewolf is an outstanding achievement , with elaborate props and each stage exactly plotted and , despite a team of 30 stuntpersons , Naughton must have acted quite a lot of this himself . |
| 28 | The England coach , who is also assistant to Ian McGeechan on the Lions tour to New Zealand this summer , and who has been in Scotland since last Thursday , admitted yesterday that the Scots ' performance against Wales ‘ had been very impressive and must have surprised quite a few people , especially down south ’ . |
| 29 | Other Hong Kong businessmen may never have had quite the high-level political contacts of Mr Wu , but they too have cause for concern . |
| 30 | Although the cut across my stomach might not have had quite the artistry of Michelangelo , it had been well sewn and healed well . |