Example sentences of "had [adv] [be] quite [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on the bus to Victoria she began to wish she had not been quite so rash in offering to visit John . |
| 2 | They were quite convinced that if Jeopardy had not been quite so stunning to look at , most people would not like him at all because he was arrogant and cold . |
| 3 | He wondered whether she had always been quite so uncaring of her appearance or whether it had been grief and rage at Uncle Bill 's defection that had started this off . |
| 4 | The old CEB 's pooling of national demands and its integrated operating philosophy had also been quite uniquely effective in reducing the level of standby plant required in Britain , and in planning national needs for capacity extensions in the most economical way . |
| 5 | In fact , my recent diet had n't been quite so reckless . |
| 6 | Surely he had n't been quite so irritating as a watchkeeping officer in the Lanark ? |
| 7 | And Shelley lay back that night , watching the fan sway round and round above her , and wishing that Rosie 's certainty had n't been quite so fervent . |
| 8 | Not noticing the church had n't been quite as crass as he 'd feared , because whatever else the bomb had done , it had blown the church apart . |
| 9 | Mildred , however , had been given a rather dim-witted tabby because there had n't been quite enough black ones to go round . |