Example sentences of "quite [adj] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Some parents , whether openly or secretly , may feel quite pleased at the prospect of being grandparents . |
| 32 | I suppose it is quite trendy at the moment for fathers to take a non-traditional view of parental responsibilities . |
| 33 | ‘ He 's quite small at the moment — he only takes size 5 ½ boots — but we 're expecting him to grow . |
| 34 | Each year they asked all the people to do little sketches , and as my sister and I spoke French , we thought it might be quite fun to do a kind of singing and dancing cabaret act — it was quite risqué at the time — I was fourteen — and in fact we were spotted by a talent scout who wanted us to come up and audition for a show in a London night club . |
| 35 | To take an example , suppose two mothers regularly go for coffee in each other 's homes and take along their respective toddlers , and that one parent gets quite distressed at the children running riot around the house whilst the other is seemingly oblivious . |
| 36 | I think , I do n't know if , I 'm finding it quite difficult at the moment because he , he 's sort of neither one thing nor the other and we 're out a lot sort of |
| 37 | He felt quite excited at the thought of such a good name . |
| 38 | He was obviously quite excited at the prospect of an end to his life of celibacy , but remained a perfect gentleman even though he went very blue in the face in his excitement . |
| 39 | They left the cottage , leaving a grateful if sad couple who were quite amazed at the way in which their problem had been solved . |
| 40 | However , if you are quite unwell at the point of conception and during the pregnancy and/or you are injecting drugs , the pregnancy could lead to HIV-related illness . |
| 41 | I was quite young at the time of course . |
| 42 | ‘ He was quite nice at the end . ’ |
| 43 | They 're quite expensive at the outset because what we 've got to do is pay the lecturers to put a lot of work in on those lectures — it 's not a simple thing writing this lecture for a thirteen year old and we also pay the school teachers for coming along and helping the lecturers . |
| 44 | It was quite traumatic at the time to be sick or unwell in such a situation but you did your very best and succeeded in putting it all right . |
| 45 | It was quite unacceptable at the time to the British Communists . |
| 46 | He would have been quite appalled at the class of some of these ‘ friends ’ with city suits unbuttoned and slack ties askew . |
| 47 | Well erm I actually stopped smoking about er , two years ago and was quite surprised at the amount of weight I put on in about five months , which was two stone , which I did n't think I 'd deserved ! |
| 48 | She had a job , a house and enough money to live fairly well ; in fact she had been quite surprised at the amount of money her mother had left her . |
| 49 | Ace in particular seemed genuinely interested in her work and , although she 'd never really been fooled into thinking his life was a hedonistic round of pleasure apart from risking his life sixteen weekends a year , she was quite surprised at the dedication he displayed in keeping fit and the work he put in behind the scenes . |
| 50 | Actually , they were feeling quite secure at the time for the Museum building was hurricane proof , one of the strongest around . |