Example sentences of "that [pers pn] was quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him not to worry and that I was quite impressed and would be interested in managing the band . |
| 2 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 3 | I thought that I was quite alone , |
| 4 | I took this to be written approval for the project to go ahead and I believe , in view of the wording , that I was quite justified in doing so . |
| 5 | But apparently they know that I 'm really forward which is absolute , actually not very true cos Ed said that I was quite forward and he , I was only forward with him because the person I got off with just before him was bloody forward and it made me a bit forward but I calmed down after that , you know ? |
| 6 | And although much of this was , by the record that he gives , painful , at the very end of it he says , quote , ‘ I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject ’ . |
| 7 | So it was a great disappointment to discover that she was quite unlike all the other home-bred horses , and that she would give nothing in return to those who cared for her and bestowed affection upon her . |
| 8 | On the contrary , I told Karen that she was quite right . |
| 9 | Breeze had been gazing at the lights for so long that she was quite dazzled . |
| 10 | Breeze saw that she was quite young — not much older than Susan — and liked her merry face , and the quick , deft way she arranged the vases . |
| 11 | Jack remembered that she was quite capable of doing this . |
| 12 | However , she said that she was quite happy to visualize the scene without having to detach herself from the reality of it . |
| 13 | What Sylvia had accomplished while doing her homework was to convince her subconscious mind that she was quite capable of entering an enclosed space without fear ; and since it is the subconscious which is responsible for sending out all those panic signals — the racing heart , the sweating palms , the feelings of nausea and so on — those symptoms did not appear . |
| 14 | She was now so convinced that the technique worked that she was quite able to deal with other situations on her own , using precisely the same methods . |
| 15 | She consistently refused any offers of help with cooking and cleaning or transport to the hospital , maintaining that she was quite capable of managing for herself . |
| 16 | I felt that she was quite distressed by the birth — she seemed drowsy and a bit blue . |
| 17 | ‘ With this one there was very little injury and as well as that she was quite a big girl and it may very well be that at the end of the day we could say that she did n't resist to the last and if she did n't then of course it 's not rape it 's a different crime , indecent assault . ’ |
| 18 | it seems that she was quite definite and quite firm ? |
| 19 | Though when she might have let him know that she was quite able to make her own decisions , thank you very much , she remembered — she still wanted that interview with him . |
| 20 | Fabia ended the call realising that she was quite looking forward to stretching her legs with Azor . |
| 21 | He submitted that it was quite clear that the FPC reached a considered decision as what it found to be the proper level of use of the deputising service consistently with maintaining the doctor 's primary responsibility and as regards the need to maintain the standards of the deputising service efficiently and consistently with that obligation . |
| 22 | After all , it was n't that long ago that it was quite acceptable to belch smoke over the countryside . |
| 23 | His Lordship said that it was quite likely that the Revenue would seek to argue that all or some of the award was liable to tax . |
| 24 | It was obviously more than a weed or even a wild flower so I did a quick turn-round and decided that it was quite pretty with its two-tone yellow tubular flowers and ferny leaves . |
| 25 | Alida felt that it was quite unseemly , in a woman of Florence Ames ' age , to bring a man-friend openly through the place , to flaunt such a curious person . |
| 26 | ‘ They were so different from the people we knew in London that it was quite difficult . |
| 27 | And so , from 1958 onwards , these characters became my dolls , and their way , of life and the houses they inhabited became so real to me that it was quite a shock when I occasionally returned to the place which had started it all , Wood Green , near Witney . |
| 28 | It 's possible that some other minor eruptions occurred between 1681 and 1883 , but if they did , there is no record of them , and all of the reports and descriptions made by ships passing Krakatoa suggest that it was quite dormant . |
| 29 | The party reached the lip of the main summit crater safely , only to find that it was quite docile , and that there was little to see within the crater apart from dense , swirling clouds of pungent sulphurous steam . |
| 30 | ‘ I saw you in the High Street the other day , ’ he would say , in a tone that suggested that it was quite impossible for Henry to have seen him . |