Example sentences of "go quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four Hearts , on the other hand , was not a success although the play did not go quite as you might think . |
| 2 | If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence . |
| 3 | The Crofting Reform ( Scotland ) Act of 1976 did not go quite as far as this , but it did give the crofters the incontestable right to purchase their house and garden , and the optional ( though not incontestable ) right to purchase their land for 15 times the annual rent . |
| 4 | ‘ I would not think you need go quite so far , ’ Bragg said , picking up the file . |
| 5 | The opening games did not go quite as I expected in that I was surprised to see Wales beat Ireland . |
| 6 | The Flower of Chivalry did not go quite so far as that . |
| 7 | Disclosing what 's happening to you can make you feel better and , as described earlier in this chapter , it can also raise your status : ‘ I feel quite tongue-tied in this company ’ or ‘ That comment 's made me go quite red ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If I 'm asked to go back to Yugoslavia , I 'd go quite happily . |
| 9 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said in a televised interview with CNBC-TV that he knows of no effort by the US Federal Trade Commission to force a restructuring of Microsoft , despite its ongoing probe : ‘ I certainly have n't heard any suggestion that they 're even considering something that would change the structure of our company , ’ Gates said ; he also warned on the Business Insiders programme that Microsoft Corp will not be as profitable in the long-term as it has in recent years — ‘ The kind of profit margin we 've had in the past will be very unlikely for us to achieve in the future ; we 've said after tax margins probably wo n't stay over 20% in the mid to long-term , and they could go quite a bit lower than that in the short-term , ’ the company 's chief executive declared . |
| 10 | I should go quite dotty without work , and there is none for me in Venice now . |
| 11 | It was an old car , but I had a friend who worked in an engineering factory and he fiddled with it till it could go quite fast . |
| 12 | ‘ We must be true with one another or I fear I shall go quite … ’ |
| 13 | Many may have been persuaded or encouraged not to do so by the uncertainty in the law , so I would not go quite as far as my hon. Friend in suggesting that local authorities alone are to blame . |
| 14 | I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly . |
| 15 | I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly . |
| 16 | Now that may not go quite as far as as as would would favour . |
| 17 | I think that could go quite well . |
| 18 | Then if you want blue to go the other side of the hoop and black to go here say , to the black wo n't go quite so far and the blue will . |
| 19 | Yeah , and try and ground the mallet a little bit , cos then the black ball will go quite nicely down there . |
| 20 | and er , but apparently they did a , they did a test and that was also a package where the stuff like that , transfer although those three may of been carrying weapons , they split open the policeman , but this does seem to basically at , well not no , not indiscriminately they did n't say that but they shot innocent people , I mean like I said well the I mean that 's got to kill in those streets and stuff the ricochet 's can go quite easily go through somebody but there , there was , there 's always been claims er , there 's no I R A gunmen there |
| 21 | But there will be situations where you really feel you may be defending a lost cause , because after all things do go quite disastrously wrong . |