Example sentences of "was quite the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was quite the most sensible arrangement ; it was more fun for the children too . |
| 2 | When The Gantry was a private house , many years ago now , she came here , to balls and parties , it was quite the social centre of the county . |
| 3 | It was quite the nearest she had come to losing her temper . |
| 4 | In many respects this class was quite the best I have taken . |
| 5 | Richard knew he was related to Tory somehow , but was not sure if cousin was quite the right word . |
| 6 | He remembered her as being pretty but this was quite the wrong word now . |
| 7 | For though Henry I had left England in a very confused state because he had only a daughter to inherit his title , Henry II 's problem was quite the reverse . |
| 8 | In all probability it was quite the opposite . |
| 9 | His two unmarried sisters were in the same line of business in Winchester Street , but whilst their tiny shop was always an advertisement for cleanliness , his was quite the opposite . |
| 10 | It was quite the funniest thing — all of it , the squeals from the man , the sounds of a cat — that he had ever seen . |
| 11 | It had surprised Ruth that the Carsons should choose to live in a boarding-house , until she discovered that in New York it was quite the thing-always supposing that the establishment was high-class and in a good locality . |
| 12 | ‘ They have a style of programme with a very good news service but I did n't feel it was quite the vehicle for me , ’ Ewart said . |
| 13 | Far from being any support to her mother , Liza 's presence in the house was quite the reverse . |
| 14 | If she told him once she told him two dozen times that he was quite the perfect host , and that he was n't to take this personally , but she wanted to be back in her own house , her own city , where she would feel most protected from the assassin . |
| 15 | Whereby you know going back a bit it was quite the accepted thing to stand and have a chat for ten , twenty minutes and er life was at a slower pace . |
| 16 | Except that the first time round the Indians saw that Firmin survived and they ran away because they were afraid , and the second time round they saw they 'd killed Antonio , which was quite the wrong result for them so they ran away because it had all gone wrong . |
| 17 | This was quite the right thing to do in a coffee-bar in the King 's Road . |
| 18 | But at that moment the phone perversely decided to break its vow of silence and ring — if ‘ ring ’ was quite the right word for the refined sound by which it alerted her to its sleekly Design-Centred presence . |
| 19 | The houses were each slightly different from each other ; here a window was larger , there a door had been moved round the corner — no-one family 's was quite the same as his neighbour 's . |
| 20 | She was quite the most attractive thing in the café now that the colour had come back to her face and she had regained her normal cheerful manner . |
| 21 | Stanley Baxter wondered whether choosing Michelangelo 's famous male nude , ‘ The Boy David ’ as his luxury item was quite the choice a man with Kenneth 's reputation should have made . |
| 22 | In fact , what happened was quite the opposite . |
| 23 | She had known , too , that he was quite the most ruggedly handsome male she had ever seen . |
| 24 | She said homeopathy had come full circle now and it was quite the in-thing to be treated by herbal remedies . |
| 25 | But he told the court it was quite the opposite . |