Example sentences of "was quite [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But getting into RADA was quite a searching process and I remember doing four one-hour work sessions with some of the tutors there , including the Principal , before finally being accepted for the three-year course there . |
| 2 | That was quite a relief too . |
| 3 | There was quite a gang of us that went down to the station — four Walshes and me . |
| 4 | ‘ That was quite a place , ’ she enthused . |
| 5 | I came to the conclusion that there was quite a bit of room in the psyche of the British clockmaking establishment for a little humility . |
| 6 | It was quite a fretful race for me in many ways . ’ |
| 7 | The news about Duncan 's death was quite a shock to me . |
| 8 | Gradually it began to dawn on me that while in the celluloid world all things were possible , in the other world it was quite a different story . |
| 9 | Odd-Knut showed us a video of the Iditarod , intriguing for what it did n't tell you which , as it turned out , was quite a lot . |
| 10 | It was quite a clever move on his part . |
| 11 | What emerged was quite a revelation . |
| 12 | It was quite a car and who has n't dreamed of being a repo man ? |
| 13 | That was quite a revelation in those years of juvenilia . |
| 14 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 15 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 16 | She was a very nice girl named Eugena , I think , and there were guards at the end of the hotel corridors , I remember giving them the slip and wandering around Khabarovsk on my own in a snowstorm , only to be told the next day that there was quite a bit of excitement in the city during the night because a Siberian tiger had come into the city and was wandering the streets at the same time I was ! |
| 17 | It was quite a good example of lobbying , in fact . |
| 18 | There was quite a warm offshore breeze . |
| 19 | Writing , Nigel had always felt , was quite a woman-pulling profession . |
| 20 | It was quite a good one ; he must remember to use it himself . |
| 21 | It was quite a respectable place , occupied mainly by blacks , and transients , and there was the unmistakable sweet smell of marijuana in the elevator . |
| 22 | It was such a bright sunny day that there was quite a holiday feeling in the air . |
| 23 | It was quite a shock to everyone when it was known that Mr Wilson had died ; he who had always seemed so solid and enduring . |
| 24 | We all went to see them once ; it was quite a nice little place , in a village truly rural . |
| 25 | It was quite a long way , and coming home she let the pony trot while she ran beside me . |
| 26 | ’ ( ‘ Outside ’ was quite a sumptuous place in its little way ; a good walk from the house , along a winding path between yew and box trees and down some artistically rounded white steps , to a trellised porch with chequered black and red tiled floor , where an escort might wait on a dark night . |
| 27 | It was quite a long kiss , very soft and smooth without obvious passion . |
| 28 | Friday was quite a morning . |
| 29 | We could see it was n't gold , mind you , but it was quite a thing , all the same . |
| 30 | Gelding or not , John Henry was quite a horse , and by the end of his first season with Rubin he had won six races , including five on grass ( of which two were Stakes races ) . |