Example sentences of "[v-ing] quite [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That summer I took Esmerelda kiting quite a lot . |
| 2 | It 's not desperately moist , although certainly one of them is cracking quite a bit , and if that helps to dry it up and make it more comfortable then it 's worth giving them a soak ten minutes a day . |
| 3 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 4 | You 're becoming quite a leading man in this crew , George Merry . |
| 5 | If you recall yesterday , I think yes , the term sick as a parrot is becoming quite a , er , apparent to me in here again , that 's again looking at your faces , some of you , so you 're all quite happy about that one , you knew where you went wrong there . |
| 6 | It 's becoming quite an art gallery . |
| 7 | In the cloistered shelter of the medieval monasteries brewing was becoming quite an art in the skilled hands of monks well used to brewing table beers for their abbots . |
| 8 | She slumped back on to the sofa , revealing quite a lot of bare thigh . |
| 9 | When Florence of Worcester draws elements of his account of the battle of Assandun in 1016 from Sallust he is revealing quite a lot about the classical interests of twelfth-century historians , but also raising doubts about his own reliability , and William of Malmesbury , whose methods so often find favour with modern scholars , nevertheless records miracle stories which his critical faculties ought to have led him to doubt , and perhaps did ; and like historians of all periods , William , Florence and their colleagues were at the mercy of the bias and inadequacy of their sources , as well as their own prejudices and errors . |
| 10 | There 's no er evidence of a significant increase in the peasants ' standard of living quite the reverse in this period . |
| 11 | And looking quite the — ’ |
| 12 | This bright red bus is large and suitable for serving quite a few children . |
| 13 | Now we have Quattro Pro for DOS version 4 to contend with , released at virtually the same time as a Windows version that looks like causing quite a stir as well . |
| 14 | An argument over which bulls are best ; British or Canadian and American is causing quite a rumpus . |
| 15 | A Black Hairstreak has been spotted , and it 's causing quite a flutter . |
| 16 | At least ten birds have been sighted on the island this year , and they are causing quite a stir among ornithologists . |
| 17 | An explicit leaflet and poster for students sloganned ‘ take a course in safe sex ’ has been causing quite a furore . |
| 18 | And , of course , he 's so revered for this sleight-of-hand that he 's constructed a two and a half hour show to appeal mainly to his legions of cultish disciples who 've been waiting quite a few years for him to make sense again . |
| 19 | ‘ The ferocity of the fire suggested it had been going quite a while before it was discovered . |
| 20 | ‘ You follow racing quite a bit ? ’ |
| 21 | and er they used to come to me and say how much does this man owe now and if he 'd been paying quite a bit next time he came in the shop they was all round him trying to persuade him to buy |
| 22 | ‘ What 's the matter ? ’ he said at last , as he realised she was n't paying quite the attention he would have wished . |
| 23 | And the other one which is er Mr and that er has details of various convictions with er picture of his as a rather younger man er , various offences going back to nineteen seventy five and occupying quite a long space but there . |
| 24 | They 're phasing quite a lot . ’ |
| 25 | A SEEMS to me as though you may have been overfeeding them with a fertiliser containing quite a lot of nitrogen and perhaps over-watering . |
| 26 | So in parts of the next chapter you will be getting quite a lot of detail . |
| 27 | Er , we 're getting quite a few calls on that subject now , John from Erith , good morning to you John . |
| 28 | We get you 're getting quite a big celebrity on this programme people want to know you know whether they can come round and have a guided tour round the house and stuff |
| 29 | So how we , so there was no obvious leader and how are we gon na pull ourselves ah ahead , well we have to improve our media coverage and we 've done quite a lot on that , John 's been very successful in getting quite a lot of media coverage both for individuals within the firm and for the the firm as a whole . |
| 30 | As well as the speed , he 's getting quite a taste for the adulation from friends and relatives . |