Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm it was erm like silky material so it looked really , it , it was n't chiffon it was erm no it was sort of satiny silky , it was n't real silk but it was like shiny stuff , and it sort of went in , in and it went a V down there and then it like flowed down and it was very short and because it was a si but it d it was n't tight , I mean it sort of clung , it showed her waist but it did n't , you know , it exaggerated her waist but it did n't like it did n't cling anywhere else really and it just looked quite , it was flowing and it was , it was really smart and it was , I , the sort of erm the material would be erm sort of almost like und er like my pyjamas that , it was that in black kind of halfy satiny silky stuff . |
| 2 | It soon became quite certain that the plane was in trouble . |
| 3 | well it usually keeps quite soft on , that kitchen table , near the boiler where d' ya want them ? , sit up |
| 4 | you could median split them at whatever the medium was and then you 've got two groups to compare erm because it usually looks quite nice if you 've got something comparative as well as looking at the average sort of , you know , pattern of responses on the questionnaire . |
| 5 | It is hard to imagine it ever turning quite summery up here . |
| 6 | It still seemed quite amazing the old traders should have chosen a route as totally inhospitable as this to make their crossing of the Himalayan barrier . |
| 7 | Overall if you look at the balance sheet , it still appears quite healthy , erm , nevertheless , I must point out that the balance sheet is composed largely of funds with specific purposes , and these specific purposes do not include simply propping up deficits on the mainstream activities . |
| 8 | It still worked quite well when up to half its original rules were removed . |
| 9 | Even when it is near the zenith , as it can of course be from the southern hemisphere , it still twinkles quite noticeably . |
| 10 | However , it also occurs quite often in Baroque music . |
| 11 | It also becomes quite understandable why people tend to become ‘ ill ’ when there are a lot of stresses going on in their lives and especially at times of life crises such as griefs , changes in work and divorce . |
| 12 | It also had quite a large choir for so small a Church , a photo taken in the twenties showing the choir outside the old Church with Mrs Still 's husband and son . |
| 13 | For the male pied flycatcher , bigamy is obviously a successful strategy , but it also requires quite complex behavioural adaptations . |
| 14 | To me , the smell is not unlike fresh human ‘ BO ’ , but a bit sweeter ; it also has quite a peppery hint to it and a touch of wood smoke . |
| 15 | The East Sussex region is interesting because it has a very high retired population and it also has quite a long of young people , particularly in the Brighton area , and a relatively small workforce , rather low in industry , certainly in the primary industries , erm service occupations are perhaps almost the mainstay of the local populace — now how would an area such as that rate in your chart as to needs ? |
| 16 | Laboulbenia ecitonis is a parasite of the army ant Eciton quadriglume ; it also grows quite well on hysterid beetles and mites that lodge in the ant colony . |
| 17 | Whatever we may think of Oliphant 's views , we have to assume there would be little point in attacks on [ h ] -dropping by the educated elite unless it was highly salient and widespread , and it is reasonable to assume for these reasons that it probably has quite a long history in the language . |
| 18 | It now runs quite well apart from two problems on which we would like your advice . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ The EC meat does n't keep very well , especially as it often comes quite a distance . |
| 20 | Further complexities in place deixis arise if the speaker is in motion — it then becomes quite possible to use temporal terms in order to refer to deictic locations , as in : ( 86 ) I first heard that ominous rattle ten miles ago ( 87 ) There 's a good fast food joint just ten minutes from here This raises the issue about whether time deixis or place deixis is more basic . |
| 21 | It then feeds quite heavily on the bark of selected small trees and shrubs . |
| 22 | It looked weird over a T-shirt , but it undoubtedly fitted quite well , except for the length of the pants . |
| 23 | It actually looked quite nice on her . |
| 24 | So you 're saying it actually has quite a lot of advantages ? |
| 25 | And just to prove that some students have got the hang of this this is a letter that er David produced and , it actually looks quite good ! |
| 26 | A prominent feature of secretory diarrhoea is that effective and normal bowel in , yo you ca , you can ignore this sign are almost indistinguishable , so despite this dramatic change in the physiology of the small bowel , borthalogically it actually looks quite normal . |
| 27 | know it never seemed quite very organised |
| 28 | It never seems quite right to the person being talked about . |