Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] quite a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I had a great time with her , we were chatting away and I fancied there was a twinkle in her eye because I was quite a catch then . |
| 3 | ‘ I was quite a young man , ’ said Lester , ‘ and Melvin Frank was quite experienced and assumed that I would act as a kind of surrogate director . |
| 4 | In fact I was quite a busy little bee last night . |
| 5 | I 've been to Germany and Austria skiing , I 've been to , er we went to Italy but I was , you know , I was quite a bit younger and it was n't for very long . |
| 6 | I thought I was quite a reasonable driver , I got as far as running at the front in World Sports Car Championships erm finished on the podium several times in International Formula Three erm |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose I was quite an odd kid , ’ he declares with confidential intensity . |
| 8 | ‘ You were quite a time . ’ |
| 9 | The Chairman will make sure that it stays going in that direction and everybody works together rather than against each other so you got a high score there you know and as we saw in the you might not think you 've got those Chairman 's skills but then what you did in the group where you were quite a central part of what was going on perhaps indicates that these can be developed . |
| 10 | She was quite a big woman . |
| 11 | Breeze liked studying people 's eyes , and she was quite a good judge of character . |
| 12 | Frankly , it had amazed him that she had been able to ride at all that afternoon , given how wasted she was the previous night , but then she was quite a determined little thing . |
| 13 | Erm well she was quite a very well spoken presentable person , you know . |
| 14 | And erm in her particular way she was quite a good cook too . |
| 15 | She was quite a girl , Nicola . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | She was quite a determined little thing under that gentle exterior . ’ |
| 18 | She was quite a young girl was n't she ? |
| 19 | She 'd already been married and divorced and she was quite a bit older than him and I , I was n't very happy about it to start , but they seem to have settled down alright |
| 20 | Her face and voice were also transformed and she was quite an attractive woman . |
| 21 | We were quite a good example with Habitat merging with Mothercare and then taking on Richard Shops , Heals and eventually BHS , all done extremely amicably . |
| 22 | The house that I was actually born in is still there , number twenty five er after a while I moved across the road to a bigger house when , cos my mother had an another son and a daughter and then we moved over to the , so when we were quite a bit in the Stoke area . |
| 23 | It was a hot day so we were outside , which was lucky as we were quite a crowd ! |
| 24 | ‘ They were quite a part of the international scene in those days from what I can make out . |
| 25 | They were quite a success , too , at first . |
| 26 | Oh they 've come down in price from when I 'm talking about , when they first come first out , they were quite a lot , a lot more |
| 27 | They were quite a well known er furniture very select furniture dealer you know . |
| 28 | It came in very useful because they were quite a while before the gas was connected . |
| 29 | Yes , they were quite an elite band of brothers , but it was possible to break into the circle , and eventually by a stroke of luck and a bit of help from one of Vincent 's crew who took pity on me , I managed to get a short spell of leave relief on HMRC Vincent . |
| 30 | It was quite a fretful race for me in many ways . ’ |