Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some plants can compensate for quite heavy infestations provided there is sufficient time , and weather conditions remain favourable . |
| 2 | She heard the question and did n't answer for quite a while , just looked at me . |
| 3 | She knew , although she did not know for quite how long , she had been running aimlessly . |
| 4 | okay , so the , there , what you 're saying is that the , the rural wage is a sub a subsistence wage , which is im by definition , sort the minimum wage you require to live on and er , there are possibilities of much higher incomes else elsewhere , so the , the subsistence wage itself may well act as quite er , strong sort of push factor out of the rural areas , let alone erm , high wages in er , er , the urban areas . |
| 5 | Their eyes met , sheer delight in each other in both pairs , and then Luke was kissing her on the mouth with so much loving tenderness that she could n't speak for quite a while . |
| 6 | The name may not have changed but the new Bob will earn £200,000 a year , the old Bob had to make do with quite a few bob less — £93,000 . |
| 7 | Two examples will be cited — one from the field of manual work and one from the field of intellectual work to show how socially useful design would result in quite different systems . |
| 8 | From here we could see for quite a distance , but there was no sign of the hunt , nor any sound . |
| 9 | He was doing it again , saying one thing but making it sound like quite another . |
| 10 | Using Estée Lauder 's Destination range , which features plums and smoky greys , we showed how good her eyes can look with quite strong colours . |
| 11 | Formed nationally in 1900 it had played no role in pioneering local labour representation ; not until the early interwar years did it emerge with quite remarkable rapidity as the dominant political force in West Ham . |
| 12 | This will be quite different to their usual routine , of course , when they may sleep for quite long periods . |
| 13 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
| 14 | The algorithms we shall investigate will call for quite careful description . |
| 15 | We decided that this could happen with quite a few units and that we should point out in the documentation the need to be on guard against it . |
| 16 | Ukraine for example is already stated in its er declaration of Sovereignty that it regards itself as a non nuclear zone , so they 're not going to want nuclear weapons for themselves , and er , I imagine that the former republics will have to quite a a comprehensive military alliance perhaps on the lines of NATO and that nuclear weapons will be vested in that alliance . |
| 17 | They should go they should go for quite a number of years . |
| 18 | I can walk for quite long distances now . ’ |
| 19 | It would lead to quite a massive rethink , ’ he added . |
| 20 | She does get through quite a lot that 's true . |
| 21 | in taxation but that still the peasant was , even though this might seem like quite a bit , the peasant was still in a better position than he had been previous because rents were at least thirty percent . |
| 22 | As one who did get into quite a few scrapes , Henry Schwartz admits that the Viennese and Berliners divided into rival camps , but thinks that the seriousness of the fighting was overstated . |
| 23 | And they are erm a very go ahead company ; they 're young and they have this maverick style , which they think we can erm come into quite reasonably well . |
| 24 | Autobiographers are clearly special people — even though many may come from quite typical families . |
| 25 | You could get to quite like these characters if all you got was half an hour a week . |
| 26 | I could point to quite a few leaders about whom I am not enthusiastic but I will refrain from naming them , and concentrate on those I like . |
| 27 | Hood For one or two season use you can get by quite comfortably in a sleeping bag without a hood . |
| 28 | That was all he could say for quite a time ; but when he had recovered his confidence he said a lot more , all of it expressing gratitude to Sheila for her quick thinking and great pluck and shame for his own and Chuck 's roughness with her earlier . |