Example sentences of "[vb infin] quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case I am actually drawing with the brush and the colours will merge quite nicely as they are painted wet into wet . |
| 2 | Depending upon the date of the interview we could predict quite well whether people would name defence as the Conservatives ' main campaign theme , but it was the date of the interview rather than the personal characteristics of the interviewee that mattered . |
| 3 | For example , placing the blocks in the centre of a large room or out on the porch , instead of in their usual corner , can stimulate quite a different type of play . |
| 4 | Do n't collect the cress from the wild ; you buy the stuff as a salad garnish from most supermarkets and it will root quite readily in a glass of water . |
| 5 | In contradiction to Mr Linfield 's opinion as expressed in his letter , I believe the policies set in place resulted in procedures that all librarians now , working in multi-cultural communities , would consider quite reasonable and normal . |
| 6 | Plants will survive quite happily if you group them all together in the bath , soak them well , and leave about an inch of water in the bottom of the bath . |
| 7 | Because of the slimness of their bodies it means a shoal of bream , particularly when resting between feeding times , can pack quite tightly together and become a much smaller target than they would present if rotundly shaped . |
| 8 | He told us they 'd cut off the water supply to the house , and as no one can carry on long without water , he thinks they 'll surrender quite soon . |
| 9 | Carlos Palenque , a mestizo who built up a media empire by getting poor Indians to telephone their complaints to his radio and television shows , may win quite a few votes in the capital . |
| 10 | Nomes can fall quite a long way without being hurt , and in any case a bacon , lettuce and tomato sandwich broke his fall . |
| 11 | Yet each time that third line came round the tune seemed to gather itself up and find new energy from somewhere , and perhaps it did n't fall quite so far each time in the fourth , and Tabitha was captivated despite herself , watching the pretty man play and wondering how he would end it , how he could ever resolve the disagreement between the rush and the ebb , until she realized suddenly that he had , with a quiet , lilting little rill that ran up and then down and flicked its tail and was gone . |
| 12 | Expenditure did fall quite rapidly between 1945 and 1950 as nations reconstructed their war economies , but between 1951 and 1953 expenditure rose again to 10 per cent in reaction to the Korean War and the heightening of Cold War tensions . |
| 13 | This may not fall quite so easily into the category of a communications medium as you see it , but its relevance will be glaringly obvious later . |
| 14 | All can converse quite happily with one or more of the common page printers with or without the help of a page description language . |
| 15 | The strength of our belief in conformity , based on this ‘ sense of justice ’ may act quite independently of considerations of immediate personal advantage . |
| 16 | So while it may not seem obvious that two magmas , differing only by 5 or 10 per cent in silica content , should behave quite differently on eruption , this chain of cause and effect operates to produce very substantial differences indeed . |
| 17 | Children can behave quite differently in different settings or with different people . |
| 18 | The second generation may behave quite differently . |
| 19 | ( In this they will not behave quite like real judges , who interrupt only occasionally . ) |
| 20 | Cheshire 's work shows that this assumption is too simple since , for example , main verb DO and auxiliary do behave quite differently in Reading vernacular and in standard English , the patterns of variation in Reading vernacular being quite different for each of the verb-form 's two grammatical functions . |
| 21 | At least it does so in regions of ancient written culture like Europe , where the same names for ethnic groups persist over long periods , even though they may describe quite different and changing social realities . |
| 22 | ‘ Dorothy , I do n't know quite how to put this , but is there something you 're not telling me that might help me understand this a bit better . |
| 23 | It 's a hell-raiser with 24-carat cuff-links and rounded vowels , it 's a freshly squeezed orange juice with a large shot of vodka — and like a Mickey Finn , the beauty of the Bentley is that you do n't know quite what you 've let yourself in for . |
| 24 | Sheridan might have made a difference given the chance — but then we 'll never know quite what sent the skilful midfielder packing to Sheffield Wednesday after hardly a sniff of the City Ground . |
| 25 | ‘ When I come to think about it afterwards , I do n't know quite what he was after . ’ |
| 26 | He hopes to show that , although we can not know quite what the former say we can , nevertheless we can still know more than the latter allow . |
| 27 | Muldoon did n't know quite what to say . |
| 28 | Normally , if a horse acts aggressively towards us we let it know quite clearly that such behaviour is unacceptable , and punish it appropriately and immediately , so that there is no doubt in the horse 's mind what the punishment is for . |
| 29 | ‘ One does n't know quite what 's going to happen next . ’ |
| 30 | She knew she was missing something , even if she did not know quite what , but she and her parents had returned to their large room at the base of the Grimsdale 's house . |