Example sentences of "[v-ing] quite [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Now the the control of the audit commission is on record as stating quite clearly that it is not possible to account the equation . |
| 3 | The inference that he did so by selling is supported by the incidental evidence of miracle-stories : one from St-Benoît-sur-Loire , for instance , recorded in the 870s , tells of two " comrades " ( compares ) at the monastery 's weekly market , who quarrelled over the 12d. they had made on their joint transactions ; another story of similar date from St-Hubert in the Ardennes has a peasant ( rusticus ) stating quite explicitly that he has come to an annual fair " to acquire the wherewithal to pay what I owe to my lord " . |
| 4 | Everyone feels the need nowadays to qualify the term ‘ Third World ’ , stating quite correctly that it should not be taken to imply a homogeneous entity . |
| 5 | Alternatively , we might feel that people who took care to give different media sources exactly the same rating on an eleven-point scale were indicating quite strongly that they found them equally useful . |
| 6 | ‘ She was doing quite nicely when she suddenly developed gas gangrene . |
| 7 | Glider designers sometimes choose to fit a tail-skid rather than a wheel for simplicity and cheapness , saying quite rightly that they offer a little less drag . |
| 8 | Early weaning is only recommended if the baby is suffering quite badly and you have exhausted all other possibilities . |
| 9 | The contractions were coming quite quickly but they just did n't feel like proper contractions . |
| 10 | When the three of them had been together in the kitchen , the infant Camille crawling round with jam on her face and fingers , he had sat in a state of sullenness bordering on rage or had conspicuously moved about preparing food for himself , knowing quite well that his dinner was cooking in the oven . |
| 11 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've known him a long time , ’ Maggie said desperately , knowing quite well that she was being taunted and feeling just a little defenceless . |
| 13 | " You , " said Grace , mock-severely ( her heart was fluttering quite uncomfortably and she could feel a most immature desire to blush and simper rising within her ) , " are a naughty boy , and I shall have to keep you in your place , I can see that . " |
| 14 | Babs Osborne was now weeping quite loudly and her nose was running . |
| 15 | It 's extremely noisy because the surfacing at one stage just did n't take properly for all sorts of reasons the traffic along there is increasing quite dramatically and I hope that will be part of those schemes . |
| 16 | The engines became quieter , purring quite ordinarily as they approached these resting places . |
| 17 | He was waving quite cheerfully when she last saw him . |