Example sentences of "quite [adv prt] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He trawls for advice and information from dozens of people , who find themselves invited to Kensington Palace quite out of the blue . |
| 2 | Then , quite out of the blue at the end of 1983 , they had a letter from the Palace saying that the Princess had decided she would like to be their patron . |
| 3 | ‘ Quite out of the question till we 've seen Charles and given him his hamper … from the divine Mona . |
| 4 | Not for nothing had she made all those journeys with her employers — she now showed herself to have a familiarity with timetables quite out of the ordinary and was able to spot at once where a connection could be made . |
| 5 | It was quite a heavy blow , quite out of the blue — yet I enjoyed it ! ’ |
| 6 | Jenny begged him every day to change his mind , but he was a busy man and declared that it was quite out of the question and he wished to goodness Miss Clinton had never mentioned the subject of Brownies ! |
| 7 | ‘ It was really quite out of the blue . |
| 8 | And Breeze 's heart sank still lower as she reflected that if they were really penniless , an artistic career with its inevitable ups and downs would be quite out of the question . |
| 9 | ‘ I told him that whilst he was dating my own sister it was quite out of the question . |
| 10 | You can have no idea at all what the weather will be like when the plants arrive : it could be wet and the soil like a quagmire , it could be too dry , or frozen hard , and planting quite out of the question . |
| 11 | I said quite out of the blue , ‘ How would you like a baby ? ’ |
| 12 | In the working class , though the stigma might be less , the difficulties were even greater and divorce was quite out of the question for most . |
| 13 | To defy convention , surrender her virginity , to a man she neither loved nor desired must be quite out of the question . |
| 14 | Lucenzo asked , quite out of the blue . |
| 15 | Then , quite out of the blue , there had come the offer of a job at Marlborough ; for although I had resolved to abandon teaching , I had found , like so many others , that of all the means of earning one 's bread , freelance authorship was among the most precarious . |
| 16 | Unusually for me , I saw a few paintings and so on which I thought were lovely , but of course purchase is quite out of the question — and anyway we have no wall space left here ! |
| 17 | Quite out of the blue her sense of the ridiculous erupted ; the parallel he 'd drawn appealed to her , and she found herself actually laughing as she handed him one of the bowls . |
| 18 | I hesitated , reluctant for all sorts of obvious reasons to take this any further and yet there was something quite out of the ordinary about her . |
| 19 | We were able to do the hall or we 'd still be nowhere with it , only because of a donation of thirty thousand pounds quite out of the blue , from the London Glassworkers ' Company which meant we did n't expect it . |
| 20 | Portillo , in whom Nigel Lawson saw ‘ something quite out of the ordinary ’ , is the son of a Spanish law professor who fought for the republicans in the Spanish civil war and a left of centre Scottish school teacher . |
| 21 | Oh they were kicking up an awful fuss and I thought to myself now a cat 's tearing one to pieces , that 's the way it , what it sounded like , or two and they were , I could n't see quite out of the window but they were making a fuss on the wall by Diane 's |
| 22 | The Evesham Laboratory was set up to serve growers in the Vale of Evesham and it 's been taken away and Wolverhampton is quite out of the question . |