Example sentences of "[verb] quite [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case I am actually drawing with the brush and the colours will merge quite nicely as they are painted wet into wet . |
| 2 | Plants will survive quite happily if you group them all together in the bath , soak them well , and leave about an inch of water in the bottom of the bath . |
| 3 | also history if I might just say that when the Post Office er split from the Civil Service , the firm was in deficit for twenty years and of course Post Office management say quite clearly that they were putting in sums of eighteen per cent of the pay bill when it was only supposed to be nine per cent of the pay bill and that 's why they 're entitled to the to the surplus . |
| 4 | In fact over the last week I have had more sympathy with the likes of Max Hastings who say quite simply that it is the job of the press to reflect the government position . |
| 5 | A particular difficulty would seem to be that the proportion of left handed inverters found in the general population does not correspond to the proportion of sinistrals estimated on other grounds to have left hemisphere speech ( Searleman , Tweedy and Springer , 1979 ) although it must be admitted that the range of estimates of both proportions has varied quite widely and there is at least some overlap . |
| 6 | Says Souness : ‘ I think you realise quite quickly if someone is not suited to playing for you or your club then you do what you have to do . ’ |
| 7 | Both pvc and butyl liners can be repaired quite simply once you find the hole or tear , but if it 's a small one it may be troublesome to locate . |
| 8 | Many ringsiders felt the 22-year-old from the Mount Tallant Club had won quite convincingly and there was quite a few surprised faces when the final scoring was announced . |
| 9 | I mean , I moved quite quickly when I saw Felstead had gone . |
| 10 | And then we dismantle the Rante and sell or use the materials — I do n't know quite how or what for yet but , first , sleep and dream . " |
| 11 | If any of these women were seriously important to him , she could n't tell from his attitude , so she was able to listen quite happily when he spoke about a play he had seen with Paula , or repeated an anecdote of Wendy 's about her job as a television production assistant . |
| 12 | Well , i i if I , the , on one of the comments I 'd make is that it 's the only time I 've ever known the accounting profession to do businessmen a favour by forcing them to face up to what the costs of the consequences of their actions are and this has as James said led to looking quite carefully and I think it 's difficult to quantify the cost at the moment for a variety of reasons . |
| 13 | One look at them will also show quite clearly that they are not too distantly related to the Scats , bearing a very similar body shape and positioning of their anal , caudal and dorsal fins in particular . |
| 14 | Indeed , it is amazing that Sir Leon Brittan should still refer to these ‘ costs ’ long after Pöhl has said quite clearly that they are irrelevant : ‘ the repeated reference to alleged huge savings in transaction costs for the currencies of a single currency area are not in the least convincing ’ . |
| 15 | The question is how this expansion can be paid for , given that the new Secretary of State has said quite candidly that his present view is that higher education can not expect a higher share of public spending than it currently receives . |
| 16 | The play had done quite well and he was noticed in the small part . |
| 17 | He could n't take his eyes off Zambia 's stomach which was revealed quite plainly as SHe sat up in bed . |
| 18 | Yes yeah they played quite well but I thought we got our game together after the goal and created a few chances ourselves and er if we keep that going we 're get something from this . |
| 19 | After World War One , as we 've been seeing , he was exploring the ego , and his writing about the ego , in particular , group psychology and Future of an Illusion , show quite clearly that he saw the ego as a pro-social fact in the personality . |
| 20 | Richard Butcher writing in 1646 is the first to mention St. Thomas ' church , for medieval bishops ' registers show quite clearly that it never existed . |
| 21 | The job paid quite well and I could perhaps at that stage have afforded somewhere slightly better to live , but I 'd got used to my new home and I was still keen to try and build up some savings again . |
| 22 | and it flowed quite nicely and you did n't actually give any objections or any |
| 23 | However , in the late 1970s they stated quite categorically that they were not able to take an initiative on the priorities set down in national policy . |
| 24 | Some studies stated quite explicitly that they had chosen to study young men only because they felt that as male ethnographers they could only portray the male point of view . |
| 25 | But the emergency window on the left opened quite easily and I was soon out with the thought that a safe landing is one you can walk away from . |
| 26 | She rang the desk and was told quite coolly that there was no such thing in the hotel . |
| 27 | I queried this , but was told quite firmly that there was no difference in the measurements of them both . |
| 28 | Information from the Novices showed quite clearly that they all saw themselves as working towards a position at the back of the terrace . |
| 29 | Well some of it erm with some of it is , I mean it 's like the taxation side and , and things like that I can understand quite easily because I 'm used to dealing in that but when it comes |
| 30 | Full of good intentions I declared quite sincerely that I had a dog in my rucksack . |