Example sentences of "go quite " in BNC.

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1 This angler has tried going quite heavy down the line with three No. 6 shot , setting the tackle three feet over depth .
2 On King Street Junior ( Radio 4 , Thursday ) things were not going quite as swimmingly as the Secretary of State might wish .
3 When I eventually did contact her things seemed to be going quite well due to supportive family but she felt isolated from other mothers in the same situation as herself .
4 ‘ The better the companies are going quite fast , ’ he says .
5 Roger Black was going quite berserk in the stands .
6 One evening at dinner , just as things were going quite tamely , a toad came into the dining-room .
7 The negative effects , however , were the less welcome members of society coming and going quite freely .
8 Things seemed to be going quite well .
9 She described her husband as going quite white and in tears .
10 By the time it actually hit the thing , it seemed to be going quite slowly .
11 We 've got erm yes we 've got quite a lot of land stock interest we might have accrued er and have n't , erm thirty million pounds in fact , but erm it has n't been accrued because in our view it 's some years off for being paid , but we think er or so I 'm informed by the Chairman of B-Sky-B er that things are going quite well
12 Without going quite so far , historians have indeed been critical .
13 So that 's what Wendy has , she 's going quite soon .
14 On the surface everything was going quite smoothly , with her asking the questions and Luke answering politely , but underneath the polite façade she could sense other emotions bubbling furiously .
15 Yet when Carr realised that everything was not going quite his way , he came out and declared that ‘ the GAA had made an enemy in him . ’
16 ‘ The ferocity of the fire suggested it had been going quite a while before it was discovered .
17 Sarah 's going quite , int she really , ?
18 Yeah I saw that but it 's not , they 're going quite quickly .
19 Did n't realize she was going quite so early but I suppose it 's hardly early anyway now .
20 Well last Sunday it seemed to be going quite nicely to start with , trying to think what it was , communion
21 The dentist said to daddy if you drink lots water after you 've had something to eat then it stops your teeth going quite as bad .
22 To tell the truth , there ai n't much to do in the garden , but we go quite a lot anyhow .
23 They go quite privately ; they buy tickets for the Grand Tier and , although a detective goes too , no one knows the Princess of Wales is in the house until they find themselves sitting behind her .
24 We go quite frequent , my daughter 's you know
25 Few , however , go quite as far as Dickens , who is apt to bum great houses down .
26 These things go quite fast .
27 two and a half , yeah , go quite , yeah t is going
28 Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner .
29 It is not , of course , the only champagne at Tesco ; this particular store has gone quite delightfully dotty this year and now has nearly 50 various champagnes from its own-label bottle ( £8.75 ) to the Dom Perignon .
30 She had gone quite pink .
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