Example sentences of "he quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a primitive misogynist whose hatred of the wife of one of his friends led him quite seriously to plan her murder . |
| 2 | Once Phoebe had started playing chess regularly again she realised she could probably have become considerably better than him quite quickly , but she did not want that enough to work on it . |
| 3 | In fact , I used to see him quite regularly as a boy friend . |
| 4 | Much to his surprise she chatted to him quite amicably for a change . |
| 5 | I observed him quite coldly but with my usual hapless concern . |
| 6 | She wrote to him quite sharply , not caring who read her letter , that : — it is impossible for me to post a gun as you ought to know you foolish man for what would the post office officials think were I to turn up with a gun to send ? |
| 7 | Mimi Machu , who had been in his life for longer than any other woman , apart from Sandra Knight , left him quite suddenly for pastures new , which some said was due to his own attitude to their relationship . |
| 8 | In spite of this phenomenal show record , I was never really inspired by this dog ; in fact , I found him quite coarse and plain , being rough in coat and straight in stifle . |
| 9 | To Gedge , the council was a game he took part in during lunch hour but Solowka found him quite influential . |
| 10 | ‘ I think it is very important to encourage younger women to see that it is possible to combine a career with having a family , that you do n't miss out on your children — my son wakes up every Saturday so excited that it 's the weekend , not because he does n't have a lovely time during the week , but because there 's nothing for him quite like his parents . ’ |
| 11 | As Emerson 's father , Wilson Sr , is a journalist , I got to know him quite well in my early years in the sport . |
| 12 | ‘ I saw him quite recently and he was in a lot of pain , lying on the floor . |
| 13 | The English-speaking world , which reveres him quite as much as does Iberia , knows him as Ferdinand Magellan . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd worked with him about four years ago and helped him quite a bit . |
| 15 | Yet , at the same time , he could not bear the feeling that , if the career tides were receding from him , then his family 's response of withdrawing too , into their own remedies and inevitable independence , might leave him quite beached like an old wreck on the shore . |
| 16 | He had a good working relationship with Joe too , having known him quite well when the young trader lodged with Florrie Axford . |
| 17 | He did not find her amusing , and she found him quite disastrously dull . |
| 18 | Over coffee back at the office I tried to pull myself together and sell him a traded option in copper which would , as it turned out , have made him quite a lot of money . |
| 19 | Yet there are others , on the fringes of power , who see him quite often at meetings of the government , at the very few moments when he shows himself to carefully selected groups of people , or when he travels from place to place . |
| 20 | On their third night she ordered him quite roughly to bring his legs closer together and found a way of rubbing herself against his knee while sucking at his neck that made him shudder . |
| 21 | The noise alerted a woman who came in from a side door and challenged him quite sharply . |
| 22 | Accordingly I telephoned him quite early the next morning and received a cordial invitation to come and drink a cup of coffee with him in his home in Lord North Street . |
| 23 | She watched him quite carefully . |
| 24 | Gervaise knew of his existence before he died , and although he was n't able to acknowledge his son , he left him quite a fortune . ’ |
| 25 | They thought him quite mad . |
| 26 | She had remembered him quite differently from what he really was . |
| 27 | However , it should be remembered that , at the time , most of his academic peers thought him quite mad ! |
| 28 | Strangely , I had another opportunity to study him quite soon afterwards . |
| 29 | The death of Wyatt 's father in 1818 left him quite a wealthy man , able to indulge a taste for connoisseurship and collecting works of art . |
| 30 | I saw him quite clearly . |