Example sentences of "quite [adj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 2 | This makes it quite clear how the gap between apparent and real earnings increases with time . |
| 3 | Inspection of Figure 7.2 should make it quite clear how the neoclassical synthesis has been modified by the new classical writers . |
| 4 | Quite amazing how the Queen Mother keeps on doing her so many public engagements . |
| 5 | This is quite patriotic of the poet — Owen then goes on to say that it is quite ironic how the sun woke up the world , started life yet it can not wake up this lifeless man , who is still warmblooded and full-nerved as Owen tell us here : |
| 6 | The dour , stalwart Dwarf troops were quite unlike any the Elves had faced before . |
| 7 | It is quite questionable why the heads of JRFU do n't establish ‘ real ’ clubs in Japan based on long-range plans . |
| 8 | Where an old person is still to be seen at the centre of a web of relationships that extend down the generations and through the individual members to the community beyond it can be quite startling how the pleasure derived from life remains undiminished despite quite severe physical and material handicaps . |
| 9 | The tentacle pores are quite large often the proximal ones are built up . |
| 10 | It is quite remarkable how the denial of death , and the denial of the secret wishes for the death of others , persists even among those who have read Freud and have been analysed . |
| 11 | I must say it is quite astonishing how the Ryder Cup has captured the imagination of the U.S. golfing fraternity . |
| 12 | What it does and I think we 're also dealing with a with a with a , people like right and is probably arguably worse right who 've never really had any sort of responsibility before and they not quite sure where the lines are drawn . |
| 13 | I 'm not quite sure where the people come from , and where we 're going to put them . |
| 14 | I 'm not quite sure why the Championship actually disrupts things the way it does . |
| 15 | She was n't quite sure why the possibility that it was Luke Hunter who had sent her the flowers was so disturbing … |
| 16 | Yeah well I 'll speak to about it by all means but I 'm not quite sure how the hell she 's gon na be able to do it . |
| 17 | Yeah well I 'll speak to about it by all means but I 'm not quite sure how the hell she 's gon na be able to do it . |
| 18 | So , is it quite big though the suit ? |
| 19 | When IBM 's AT ( the 286 based computer ) was launched in late 1984 , it ran at 8MHz , but it was n't long before faster and faster oscillator speeds were used — a 25MHz 286 based machine was quite common only a couple of years ago . |
| 20 | Dress code : Adidas tracksuits and shells ( fat laces , of course ) Kangols and Westwood Buffalo hats ( which were quite silly enough the first time round as far as we 're concerned ) . |