Example sentences of "quite [adv] [adj] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
| 2 | As a team with which to go goat-hunting it was not quite so exiguous as he implied . |
| 3 | A fine figure of a man , even finer without his clothes — Margaret had no complaints there — but not quite as strong as he made out . |
| 4 | A glance at the assembled guests told him what he already knew — that no one looked quite as good as he did . |
| 5 | The division of species certainly is n't quite as definite as he supposed . |
| 6 | Lovro won Matačić , whose reputation was never quite as high as he deserved , remained the conductor . |
| 7 | Not noticing the church had n't been quite as crass as he 'd feared , because whatever else the bomb had done , it had blown the church apart . |
| 8 | But while Wainfleet 's apology had been specious and he really did not see what all the fuss was about , he was not quite as carefree as he had let them think . |
| 9 | He certainly seems to have been asking for something , if not something quite as drastic as he got . |