Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [pers pn] was quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man came from the house as Jenna was getting out of the car and she was quite impressed . |
| 2 | Designer of the stamps , Paul Hogarth , commented that ‘ Glasgow presents a wide spectrum of flamboyant Victorian architecture and it was quite a task to choose something symbolic that would make a good image on the stamps . |
| 3 | And I 'd had a car crash and it was quite a relief not to have to worry about performing . |
| 4 | And er when that was done the washing the mangle was always in the yard , in the backyard , the old mangle with the wooden rollers and it was quite an effort to turn and we children very often ha to give a turn . |
| 5 | It then went into the City to set up their own self-regulatory and we in fact went to see Mr Redwood and he was quite he was very quite blunt about it , he said well , they considered it when they were sid considering the investors compensation scheme , but the sum involved in pensions are so great , that they could not afford to underwrite a pension er a compensation fund for pensions , so therefore there 's a pension fund for for private investment , but not a pension fund er compensation fund for , for occupation . |
| 6 | However , a couple of days later I moved into my bungalow and it was quite a job . |
| 7 | He wandered about this neck of the woods and he was quite harmless , he was fond of children . |
| 8 | Roman had said half an hour and he was quite capable of walking in on her if she was late . |
| 9 | Everyone was packed in like sardines and she was quite unable to move . |
| 10 | Her thoughts were far too much on Alain and it was quite ridiculous . |
| 11 | so she got the job and she was quite happy really |
| 12 | he could feel the heat from her body and he was quite sure that , beneath the long cotton nightdress , she was naked . |
| 13 | Dr Agerholme was in charge and she was quite willing to have me there . |
| 14 | Unfortunately the apartment was at the very top and it was quite a struggle to drag Maidstone up the eight or ten flights of stairs . |
| 15 | I was wearing a thick semi-dry suit and I was quite cold the water was cold and this was in June I was quite nervous and I was forever adjusting my buoyancy to achieve neutral buoyancy . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't think I did anything wrong on Wednesday night and I was quite pleased with my own performance , but it falls a bit flat because we were beaten . |
| 17 | I 'd looked forward to it for ages , there 'd been a build-up but it was quite different for her . ’ |
| 18 | His win in last year 's National broke a long lean spell but he was quite casual about it all in the post race interviews . |
| 19 | The fish fought as hard as a 10lb summer pike and I was quite staggered to lift aboard a barracuda of about 2lb . |
| 20 | Nor , apparently , did they spring from his disposition , for his outlook was less severe than that of his father and he was quite devoid of that propensity for abstraction which had impaired the prospects of Alexander I. Although he liked parades and reviews , his inclinations were not really militaristic . |
| 21 | Willie was always Zach 's faithful assistant and it was quite obvious , as soon as Sherlock Holmes was mentioned , that Zach would be the famous deerstalkered detective . |
| 22 | He was merely taunting in his usual manner and she was quite pleased with herself that she had managed to retain some control when he 'd kissed her . |
| 23 | And he said he was working with an old fellow which is getting on in age and he was quite absent minded and he said , I was about thirty feet from the ground on a ledge er filling er s a hole ready for shot for blasting and the old fellow was about twenty feet higher than him and then he was ss er whatsit another hole and then a at the top of the chamber there 's a little hole , he said , like a roof we call it which is a little passage that goes up into the next floor and then we used that as an escape route he did n't have to go far . |
| 24 | I did no work that I can remember — I know I was considered hopeless by my teachers and I was quite ready to believe I was hopeless — I can quite well remember keeping mice at the back of the classroom and I can remember the smell . |
| 25 | I was n't too sure about these new video phones but it was quite good fun seeing what he looked like . |
| 26 | Despite this period there was always a mass of cloud and it was quite normal for us to go down to see if one could identify some feature . |
| 27 | Her last patient was an old Labrador bitch and it was quite obvious that an urgent operation was called for . |
| 28 | Had a funny taste but it was quite nice . |
| 29 | They were all done from memory and she was quite pleased with them . |
| 30 | It was the first time I had seen a ship built from scratch and it was quite an experience to watch the steel plates being cut by their ingenious machine which controlled a cutter as it drew our the required shapes direct from the blueprint , converting everything to full scale as it cut . |