Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] quite [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another sense most of them are quite the opposite , namely rejections of modern modes of political organisation , both national and supranational . |
| 2 | I am quite a pleader at times and this occasion surpassed all previous pleads imaginable . |
| 3 | ‘ I guess it is probably a bad thing , but I am quite a flirty person . |
| 4 | ‘ You may not think it , but I am quite a busy man . |
| 5 | I am quite an Infidel about it , and shall never be converted . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ As I say , I 'm quite a private person , but if that 's OK with everyone else I suppose … |
| 7 | I 'm quite a fan , really . |
| 8 | I 'm quite a lazy person so I ignored them . |
| 9 | So I 've done all this , I 'm quite a handyman in the house , so we talked about it at the cen at the centre here and we actually asked another guy to do it , who 's erm sixty odd and he comes in here everyday er and he was willing to start it or to run it . |
| 10 | I 'm quite a logical person , you know . |
| 11 | Right , I , I 'm quite a small building , erm , I got scary stuff in me . |
| 12 | I can bowl , I 'm quite a bowler . |
| 13 | I 'm quite an artistic person ; in retrospect , I think perhaps I should have risen to the challenge and maybe applied to do a language , because I really enjoy literature and languages in my spare time . |
| 14 | I 'm quite an independent person , but I was quite insecure , I needed someone to say this is good , this is bad , and because he was doing that it gave me the determination I needed . |
| 15 | I 'm quite the armchair feminist ! |
| 16 | ‘ You did hit him in the stomach — and that briefcase of yours is quite a solid design , after all . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I had a great time with her , we were chatting away and I fancied there was a twinkle in her eye because I was quite a catch then . |
| 19 | ‘ I was quite a young man , ’ said Lester , ‘ and Melvin Frank was quite experienced and assumed that I would act as a kind of surrogate director . |
| 20 | In fact I was quite a busy little bee last night . |
| 21 | I 've been to Germany and Austria skiing , I 've been to , er we went to Italy but I was , you know , I was quite a bit younger and it was n't for very long . |
| 22 | I thought I was quite a reasonable driver , I got as far as running at the front in World Sports Car Championships erm finished on the podium several times in International Formula Three erm |
| 23 | ‘ I suppose I was quite an odd kid , ’ he declares with confidential intensity . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Years before , he had suddenly exclaimed with bitter irony , ‘ You are quite the plush gentleman and I am the black sheep . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , I have sought you , ’ he said , nodding , half to himself , ‘ for they tell me you are quite the best there is . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You are quite the most tantalising — ’ |
| 28 | By this stage , you could be feeling that you are quite an old hand at Christmas video making ; if so , recording the party should be child 's play in every sense . |
| 29 | I mean , you 're quite a bit older than me and that does n't matter , either . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You know , you 're quite a cracker . |