Example sentences of "i [vb past] quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had special qualities of sensitivity , patience , rationality , intelligence , and wit ; and when those qualities were completely unobservable , I became quite concerned about what was happening to him , you know , what was the meaning of his life at this point . |
| 2 | A former AE of a major futures bucket shop here recalls using hard sell techniques on a visiting client : " One day , he came to lunch with me , and I became quite drunk while he stayed determinedly sober . |
| 3 | I learned how to put up wallpaper — I became quite expert at it ! |
| 4 | Gaitskell never adopted me in the sense that Harold Wilson did later , but I became quite close to him and he employed me in quasi-political matters . |
| 5 | I found that if I settled down to the tape and the life of Apricot Smith , I became quite comfortable . |
| 6 | As the months went by , I became quite excited by the prospect of weighing myself every Monday . |
| 7 | I became quite a celebrity because of it . |
| 8 | I never did get the hang of table tennis but I became quite a useful bantam-weight and once even represented the club against Bethnal Green . |
| 9 | Although I hated the very idea of selling things to people who might not want to buy them ( even if it was good for them ) I made quite a few sales , the main commission deriving from the sale of a Group Insurance Scheme to 32 men from the Times-Herald staff . |
| 10 | And er the question as to what steps we would take , we do n't discuss those , I , but I made quite clear , and I say it again quite simply , the embargo will be enforced , er and there 's no point in people thinking they can burst through it . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think I realised quite how kind until they were killed . ’ |
| 12 | I lived quite a lot of my early childhood at the Thompsons ' house behind a shop on Harehills Parade . |
| 13 | He used to make the black and whites and the black coats with a silk stripe ; and I quite thought they were costermongers until I went to help a friend of mine — she kept a public house — and I met quite a lot of them there . |
| 14 | As for yours truly , yes , there is someone who I met quite recently , who probably needs me no more than I need her , someone who brings out my poetic streak , and makes me believe in the little people . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Mr Vigo and I got quite matey , ’ said Sheila . |
| 16 | ‘ I got quite a shock . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It was just that you seemed so interested in my being one of the survivors that I got quite the wrong initial impression . ’ |
| 18 | I got quite a few kicks out of doing that . |
| 19 | The audience turned out to be very efficient interviewers — I got quite depressed . |
| 20 | While I was visiting the area , one perched on a small hawthorn tree on the other side of the road and I got quite close to it . |
| 21 | Well I was n't that nervous , but er I had a go and after an hour or so I got quite confident on me own then . |
| 22 | I got quite a lot of reading done — John managed to persuade one of the nice Italian staff at the British Council Library to let me have two more books than my five allowed , so I had them on her ticket ! |
| 23 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 24 | ‘ There was Diane , I got quite friendly with Diane . |
| 25 | ‘ I got quite a surprise . |
| 26 | However er I got quite friendly with a signalman at er Street . |
| 27 | I got quite , I was given to it last year , I reckon |
| 28 | I got quite a few things in there . |
| 29 | So I got quite a lot of old tools , really old ones |
| 30 | I answered every thing and I seem , I think I got quite a few right , I mean I do , I , if I got fifty percent on that I 'd be very pleased . |