Example sentences of "and he be quite [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he can ‘ pick and choose ’ , I suggest , he is not a citizen , he does not have full political status and he is quite distinguishable on these grounds alone from the adults around him who do not have this option . |
| 2 | And he is quite right . |
| 3 | And he is quite adamant about one thing — the paper was his idea , whatever anybody else involved with News on Sunday may claim . |
| 4 | He 's got this really boring name — Stuart Hughes , I ask you , there 's a career in soft furnishings for you , no qualifications needed except the perfect name , sir , and you 've got it — and he 's quite complacent about answering to it for the rest of his days . |
| 5 | Had a slight operation and er I did n't know about it until today so erm er Paul 's going to offer him our good wishes and we 're going to be , I 'm told he 's home again and it 's , it 's only quite a minor operation and he 's quite well and that er hopefully will be back again next week . |
| 6 | And he 's quite correct in pointing those out and I would n't disagree with him on on that score . |
| 7 | And he 's quite rare because I think I could get away with imposing my ideas on him . |
| 8 | I think he just does n't pay attention and he 's quite lazy with his feet . ’ |
| 9 | The thing he 's very good at is opening bottles and he 's quite clever at other things , too . |
| 10 | ‘ And he 's quite right , I have . ’ |
| 11 | Harry wo n't want Nolan pestering her and he 's quite capable of it . ’ |
| 12 | if he said that about Gemma , and he 's quite friendly with her as well |
| 13 | I thought about Robbie , cos Robbie is quite Dorset and he 's quite broad . |
| 14 | ‘ He looks better than we expected — Frank says that 's all due to him — and he 's quite tanned . |
| 15 | Erm , one thing some people do know that are in this room , and others do n't , and he 's quite embarrassed about this , on the way home from the conference , Matthew and I had a very , very bad accident , on the motorway and we 're both very , very lucky to have survived actually , erm , but erm , unfortunately during the course , well after the accident , Matthew was breathalysed and found to be over the limit and he 's in court actually in the Birmingham area on the twenty second of February , and we 're hoping that he gets off with a very light sentence , but er , we 're both very , very lucky to be here today . |
| 16 | After all , he 's eating fairly well and he 's quite lively , is n't he ? " |
| 17 | Erm and , anyway , on the health and safety contractors on site thing Stuart has actually read the documentation and he 's quite happy with it , and we 're waiting for you and Martin to feed back as well on it . |
| 18 | ( Technically I should have Norris 's solo room because I 've been in the flat longest , but that room 's small and noisy ; also , Gav does n't snore and he 's quite happy to retreat to the living room couch if I have female company … |
| 19 | I rang yesterday I said , well look we 've got the okay to palletize it now and he 's quite happy about that . |
| 20 | I tried it out on Kenneth , who talks like Prince Charles , and he was quite impressed . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And he was quite right about the clubs . |
| 23 | He wandered about this neck of the woods and he was quite harmless , he was fond of children . |
| 24 | Roman had said half an hour and he was quite capable of walking in on her if she was late . |
| 25 | he could feel the heat from her body and he was quite sure that , beneath the long cotton nightdress , she was naked . |
| 26 | A er and er it was kept secret for many a year , but er the just when they were , there the excise men came upon them , and this old ancestor of mine he was a big lad , over six foot , and he was quite sure that the man was n't going to take his whisky . |
| 27 | ‘ She used to phone him nearly every day , though , and he was quite happy after her calls . |
| 28 | Because at one of our talks er before the financial advisor spoken to a chap that happened to be sitting near him when I moved out of this desk and he got rather a ler lu large investment and yet m and and he was quite happy with his investment yet much to my astonishment he completed this application form for the investment advisor to advise him on his investment . |
| 29 | The Home Guard had drawn him a map of how to get to Maryhill , and he was quite happy now . |
| 30 | And , the children were in there erm doing their P E and er he went stood at the door and watched them and he was quite happy . |