Example sentences of "[verb] quite the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , ’ she breathed , ‘ oh , Havvie , yes , ’ and if , when he kissed her , with the perfect decorum with which a well brought up young peer should treat a single girl — even one who had promised to be his wife — she did not feel quite the surge of passion which she had expected , she put that down to her inexperience , and his tentative handling of her , which would change with time , she knew . |
| 2 | There 's no er evidence of a significant increase in the peasants ' standard of living quite the reverse in this period . |
| 3 | ‘ What 's the matter ? ’ he said at last , as he realised she was n't paying quite the attention he would have wished . |
| 4 | If they 're whingeing because they have n't got quite the times they hoped for , then let them complain into your shell-like ear for a change . |
| 5 | And the fact that he 's a left-hand drive he 's erm perhaps not got quite the view out of his offside mirror , or our offside mirror it would be to us , that perhaps somebody like yourselves have with er a right-hand drive vehicle . |
| 6 | Well , you know , we have got , have n't got quite the traffic that other places have got . |
| 7 | Although the cut across my stomach might not have had quite the artistry of Michelangelo , it had been well sewn and healed well . |
| 8 | ‘ You really do both look quite the thing . ’ |
| 9 | But no other bird exerts quite the appeal of the annual visitor from the river Ob . |
| 10 | The ultimate distinction for any performance of this work must be to topple over and drown in its own pretentiousness and Segerstam 's direction does n't possess quite the urgency or the dazzle to achieve that . |
| 11 | It probably means the Lib Dems compromising , not getting quite the system they want . |
| 12 | The problem is that on his own terms ‘ many ’ may conclude quite the reverse , however much they share his view of the Iraqi regime . |
| 13 | All in all , the people 's party may not have played quite the ace it thought it had when it chose Smith as its leader . |
| 14 | It does n't have quite the presence or the lovely transparency of the Seymour-equipped hybrid , but the Texas Specials make it sound fractionally bigger , deeper and more authoritative . |
| 15 | Well , league and cup matches may not have quite the lure of England and Australia , but , as far as I can tell , clubs are doing their utmost to keep rugby 's momentum going . |
| 16 | The Trade Unions did not have quite the grip on the economy that they have today and its effects were not absolute . |
| 17 | Unlikely as it was that Richard Branson would ever have quite the impact on teenage sensibilities of Duran Duran , the days he could walk down a busy London street totally unrecognised were surely numbered . |
| 18 | ‘ This new haka is n't having quite the effect on the opposition we 'd hoped for ’ |
| 19 | Negativism ( sometimes called oppositional behaviour ) is an exaggerated form of resistance when a child becomes stubborn and ‘ contrary ’ , often doing quite the opposite of what the mother or father wishes . |
| 20 | Her nerves were worn ragged by the swift changes in his moods , as first they convinced her of his avowed antipathy , as he called it , and then somehow , without any warning , he seemed to be saying quite the opposite . |
| 21 | I have found quite the opposite to be true . |
| 22 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 23 | In fact , were Franco to see him now , he would very likely not recognise Maidstone who , sobered up , shaved , scrubbed and polished , in well-cut black suit and shining black shoes , looked quite the man about town . |
| 24 | She was aware of Mr Carson looking at her , and when he handed her into the carriage to sit beside Ruth she felt quite the lady . |
| 25 | But Branson felt quite the reverse . |
| 26 | If you held the kind of philosophy that I do , you would realize that , in friendship , presence and absence , propinquity and distance , do not make quite the difference that they do in mere acquaintanceship . |
| 27 | Even a good marriage may not be able to deliver quite the cocktail of intuition , sympathy , honesty , and insight . |
| 28 | They did not seem quite the sort of men one imagined Ianthe knowing as friends , though she had certainly greeted them cordially enough . |
| 29 | Far from stemming speculation , it did quite the reverse , and the press soon descended on the Sallyport Hotel to inspect the hotel register with its missing pages . |
| 30 | Neither William nor Charles Frederick had quite the severity of countenance which one associates with Benjamin James : William in his twenties had a pleasant and confident face , with a full mouth which he would allow to be overgrown by a drooping and slightly unkempt moustache in later years . |