Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] quite [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full of good intentions I declared quite sincerely that I had a dog in my rucksack . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't think he would do it to draw attention , but I believe quite genuinely that he was trying to amuse me . ’ |
| 3 | But all through my twenties and into my thirties I swore quite testily that I would never have children . |
| 4 | Even though I may be in a minority , I feel quite strongly that the job of the record companies is to issue recordings of music at prices the music loving public can afford — not to enhance that price by paying for learned disquisitions seeking to explain what ought to need no explanation . |
| 5 | Since the object of the session in the first place was to play a part in helping the patient to deal successfully with a problem which has been troubling him , provided the session fulfils that role we do not need to worry unduly about whether it was a real regression experience or not ( although , as I have already stated , I feel quite strongly that the majority of cases are indeed genuine ) . |
| 6 | I feel quite firmly that the only way forward is to move to the situation where marketers control not only what they spend but also the presentation of sales results in terms of changes as a result of alternative contributory factors . |
| 7 | I pray quite often that some kind soul rescued him . |
| 8 | Birkenhead 's next book was a most entertaining and vivid memoir ( 1953 ) of his highly eccentric novel-writing , gypsy-loving ( she believed quite wrongly that the family had gypsy descent ) elder sister , Eleanor . |
| 9 | " Well , that 's very hypocritical of you , " said Clelia , " because you know quite well that she only wants to have James so as not to hurt your feelings . |
| 10 | Moreover , she states quite emphatically that ‘ they do n't pay as an investment ’ , despite a rent of . |
| 11 | She knew quite well that her address-book was here , in her shoulder-bag . |
| 12 | We know quite well that there 'll be no markets for them in future . |
| 13 | If we choose unc and iterate in the usual way , we find quite quickly that unc Normally , we would choose unc However , if we attempt to use ( 2.6.4 ) to find |
| 14 | Erm I think we feel quite strongly that that erm er the the emphasis that should be placed on environmental considerations is is considerable . |
| 15 | In the communion service we state quite clearly that Jesus died for the sins of the world . |
| 16 | We felt quite strongly that although it was a gesture , I do n't think it was a political gesture , I think it was a gesture that we as Councillors wanted to make so that we personally would suffer some of the reductions in erm finance that we were going to impose on other people . |
| 17 | ‘ She does n't get out much ’ , a phrase that Shirley had learned to use of her mother to forestall enquiry , impertinence , sympathy : a middle-aged phrase that she heard in her own voice as parody — indeed , she had noticed that when ‘ the family ’ gathered together all of them spoke in parodies of clichés , and some of them knew quite well that they were doing it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The railways railwaymen were demanding more , because they felt quite rightly that they were giving more to the railways . |
| 20 | In it they asserted quite clearly that permitting divorce would certainly affect the stability of all Irish marriages because it rendered every Irish marriage dissoluble : ‘ It is as though the legal availability of divorce builds up a social pressure which , for large numbers of people , becomes stronger than moral or religious resistance ’ ( abridged version , Irish Times , 14 May 1986 ) . |
| 21 | Although this sounds silly , it happens quite often that contestants act with no regard at all for their own safety . |
| 22 | Without these he acknowledges quite candidly that the system can not survive . |
| 23 | As he wrote the words , he knew quite well that his grave had been dug for him the day before , once a reprieve had been refused . |
| 24 | Edward was not a great reader but he knew quite well that he was broaching the oldest and most central concern of literature ; he felt appropriately diffident . |
| 25 | If B replies no , he implies quite clearly that he has no interest in continuing with that topic of conversation . |
| 26 | He was anxious about making absolutely sure that another person was present in The Randolph at the lunch session with the American tourists ; and he learned quite unequivocally that this person was there , although he did n't actually speak to him . |
| 27 | It had been written on 8 June , and he said quite clearly that it would be his last ‘ until I see you again ’ . |
| 28 | Now , erm , yes , I 'd like to pick up a comment made by the Director , erm , he said quite rightly that the prevention factor is really out of the window as far as the budget is concerned , and pro as far as operations are concerned . |
| 29 | Now I have been digressing and let me say quite clearly that I never knew the answer and I do not know it now , how the tremendously high level of morale was sustained , not just in the Pathfinders , but throughout the Command as a whole . |
| 30 | These definitions enable us to say quite categorically that a household 's expenditure on food is consumption — the food will be eaten within a short period of time and that will be an end of the matter . |