Example sentences of "[adv] look quite [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I no longer looked quite such a time-traveller . |
| 2 | you could median split them at whatever the medium was and then you 've got two groups to compare erm because it usually looks quite nice if you 've got something comparative as well as looking at the average sort of , you know , pattern of responses on the questionnaire . |
| 3 | The castle probably looks quite different in the sunlight . ’ |
| 4 | They also look quite superb in pots and containers on a patio , terrace or verandah , as well as in window boxes . |
| 5 | She had found her shoes , stuck inside one of the pockets of her waterproof , and she supposed she probably looked quite normal . |
| 6 | What the GLC were hoping to do with London 's transport system now looks quite farsighted , and the learned judge 's remark that Ken Livingstone ‘ had made a naked grasp for power that must not be allowed ’ just silly . |
| 7 | which often looks quite nice so that even if what you 've found does n't quite match up with what they 've found you can say well look you know these theories , ideas are need enriching , they 're a bit inadequate as they stand because what happens when somebody tells you this , what happens when somebody says this erm you know we can , we can revise them in the following way |
| 8 | They read and reread , often looking quite abstracted , memorizing passages silently , their eyes far off ; and when ideas eluded or baffled them they would turn to one another for help , each sister seeming to draw strength and comfort from the other 's closeness . |
| 9 | For once he really looked quite smart , in well-cut grey trousers that emphasised the length of his legs and strength of his thighs , and a cream shirt that actually looked as though it had been ironed . |
| 10 | The darker humour associated with ED 209 , which does indeed look quite large and threatening at first ( and not at all like a model only one foot ( 30cm ) high , which it is ) is typified when it , in error , riddles a young executive with machine-gun bullets on its first official presentation and the stunned silence is broken by a cry of ‘ Someone send for a paramedic ! ’ |
| 11 | A prominent feature of secretory diarrhoea is that effective and normal bowel in , yo you ca , you can ignore this sign are almost indistinguishable , so despite this dramatic change in the physiology of the small bowel , borthalogically it actually looks quite normal . |
| 12 | And just to prove that some students have got the hang of this this is a letter that er David produced and , it actually looks quite good ! |
| 13 | She was actually looking quite pretty , but Lydia did n't think so . |
| 14 | ‘ You certainly look quite different , ’ Alexandra said , catching his mood and smiling . |
| 15 | She certainly looked quite excited , like the day when we went to hear Professor Gilbert Murray , and he let his subject run away with him … . |
| 16 | It actually looked quite nice on her . |