Example sentences of "quite a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Huh , huh , quite a caper . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Good heavens , I 've got to get back — It 's been quite a lunch , Rob . |
| 3 | ‘ That was quite a promise you made to your father tonight , ’ Damian said softly . |
| 4 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 5 | Jacqui was in quite a state . |
| 6 | ‘ Georgina 's in quite a state , underneath the armour-plated shell . |
| 7 | The knowing use of the conventions of the detective story to write something that is not quite a detective story not only follows a rather well-established practice in post-war Italian writing , of which the novels of Gadda and Sciascia are the best-known examples ( cf. |
| 8 | And that sounds quite a Triumph . |
| 9 | And that sounds quite a Triumph . |
| 10 | Visiting aircraft began arriving early in the day and by the time the airshow started at midday quite a line-up of visiting types were present , ranging from award-winning Percival Vega Gull G–AEZJ to Duncan Baker 's Howard 500 N500LN , the latter making a very rare appearance away from its Exeter base . |
| 11 | ‘ A yacht , as you say , and making quite a bonfire . |
| 12 | There was quite a to-do about it in the paper . |
| 13 | Dot tried to imagine that the two women in front were her footmen and she was one of the royal princesses , preferably Margaret because she would n't have to be queen which would be quite a responsibility if you thought about it , going for a drive in a carriage with her regal dogs and her regal flowers . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's quite a responsibility running a course like this , ’ she says . |
| 15 | I appreciated I was taking on quite a responsibility — I knew it would n't be like having a budgie in a cage as a pet — but I felt I could cope . |
| 16 | It 's quite a responsibility . ’ |
| 17 | It was quite a responsibility at first , but if I was worried about anything there was a Head Gardener called Arthur Godfrey here at Killerton that I could turn to . |
| 18 | ‘ You are getting close to Ana and seem to have taken quite a responsibility on your shoulders . |
| 19 | On that basis , the new French government will have quite a responsibility . |
| 20 | ‘ Bill Clinton looks like he will be taking on quite a responsibility . |
| 21 | At the time , there was quite a campaign starting to build , calling for Wimbledon to dig up the grass . |
| 22 | But , in fact , he seemed to have quite a campaign going against the staff , so he might easily have said something . ’ |
| 23 | She was n't like the other beggars , not quite a supplicant ; fairer than the maids and with her head uncovered . |
| 24 | The five soldiers prove , as always , to be quite a spectacle for passing motorists . |
| 25 | Our press date prevents us giving details of this run but it must have been quite a spectacle if it went ahead as reported , and would have provided a fitting finale to an outstanding season of operations . |
| 26 | It must have been quite a spectacle though when the first combine came |
| 27 | There was quite a quantity of useless crap in there , based on the malai five constitutional principles of justice , tolerance etc . |
| 28 | ‘ It gives quite a clarity of management information if you do it yourself , ’ says BP spokesman Ian Fowler . |
| 29 | Quite a fever … |
| 30 | Hillwalkers really do owe the competitive and innovative ski market quite a debt — and it is n't ended yet . |