Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] quite [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , well take er there were some good patches in the you know , there were some quite decent houses and some very nice people . |
| 2 | There were some quite nasty-looking cuts on his head , and the sergeant was a bit apprehensive about turning him over . |
| 3 | There were some quite sharp interchanges which unfortunately are still there in the literature and I fear are not doing an awful lot of good . |
| 4 | These typical judgements against dwindling authority formed part of a wider fabric of anxiety in this era , and there were some quite delirious fears in circulation about a supposed deterioration — both physical and moral — among the British people which was believed to be producing new and unprecedented forms of violence and depravity . |
| 5 | Lipman was a lawyer and an agent at CMA who were our booking agents , and we were all quite friendly . |
| 6 | He , he er yes , he I mean they were all quite helpful . |
| 7 | They were all quite normal hollow pieces of graphite tube . |
| 8 | We had er we were all quite good friends and quite good company you know . |
| 9 | It was really extremely hazardous , and as we stood there peering vainly into the blanket of fog it did cross my mind that we were all quite crazy . |
| 10 | But they were all quite delightful fellows about the same age as most of the airmen pupils , and we seemed to fit in very well with each other ; although most of us had spent several years in the RAF the acting pilot officers had only spent , say , a couple of months . |
| 11 | You were all quite comfortable with that . |
| 12 | They were all quite comfortable in their evening club , the Family Planning Clinic . |
| 13 | I ache a bit — there were two quite long pitches to climb down , and getting back up is always harder ! ’ |
| 14 | Was that quite normal at the time ? |
| 15 | Wh how far , was that quite near ? |
| 16 | One was to paint the roofs of LA big armaments plants to look like suburban gardens ( for fear of Japanese bombing ) ; the other was this quite extraordinary piece of cartoon propaganda . |
| 17 | When we was about fourteen in the fourth year at school , there was this quite chubby bloke he 'd have a towel just there while you shower . |
| 18 | Probably there was some quite innocent explanation , which Roger Kenyon would give her when she returned the wallet — if , indeed , it were his . |
| 19 | It seemed to me that there was some quite palpable fear , some terror , almost , loose amongst them . ’ |
| 20 | It was all quite dispiriting and I subsequently found it easier to work with museum officials . |
| 21 | He said that it was all quite normal really and |
| 22 | It was all quite friendly . |
| 23 | It was all quite ludicrous after all . |
| 24 | Not that they had anything against cats as cats , but witches were believed to take the form of cats , so it was all quite reasonable , really . ’ |
| 25 | There was lots of very French glitz and glamour and an apparently unlimited budget , much of which had been spent on giant television screens and clever use of lights ; but it was all quite impractical and unco-ordinated . |
| 26 | It was all quite innocent , he was genuinely worried that she was on her own . |
| 27 | It was all quite tidy and clean , as Vivien had left it . |
| 28 | Mooning around knowing it was all quite hopeless and getting lots of good creative material from the experience . |
| 29 | Mr Carson took me to Astor House for luncheon and it was all quite elegant , but the food was so rich it has left me thirsty . ’ |
| 30 | It was all quite extraordinary ; but it was also exhilarating , in that it explored new expressive possibilities in the concerto while maintaining utter idiomatic integrity . |