Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] quite a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'll want to catch quite an early train from Liverpool Street .
2 But once one assumes that accumulation is taking place — and Marx asserts that this is the chief aim of capitalism — then the proportion of surplus-value which is unproductively consumed has quite a different significance .
3 She has received quite an unpleasant shock . ’
4 And it 's reputation has travelled or it it 's false reputation has travelled quite a long way .
5 The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore .
6 He added : ‘ My horse has got quite a high cruising speed and , even if we stay in the middle , he is more than capable of galloping his way back into the reckoning . ’
7 I believe that I will always remember it , even though it was quite a few years ago and even though it has recurred quite a few times since .
8 The anthropological fieldworker who eventually returns to the social setting of his homeland usually finds that it has become quite a different place .
9 The academic , intellectual types also have a cultural background and are interested in aspects of the arts , and erm we are very fortunate , I think , also in that people are able to give more time than perhaps business people , and so a number of the members of the committee are university people and we are able to use the Gardner Arts Centre , which has become quite an exciting area , in that it 's open to experimental production , so therefore we attract a lot of the London critics .
10 Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner .
11 ‘ It has taken quite a large chunk out of our lives , ’ he said .
12 Your life has taken quite a different turn since then . ’
13 This Committee has rejected quite a large proportion of the officers proposed statements .
14 But he said all he did was people he 'd met quite a few times now , they say that you know like cos he 's very funny , he comes out with me , god Sally what 's the matter with you , you 've been drinking or something , I said no , that 's how he is he 's not
15 yes , well I used to read a lot of story books , travel avidly and I think I forget all about the author and the story , but I remember one portion where they discovered a depression in the middle of a continent where it was in excess of and they 'd grown quite a different specie
16 Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it .
17 By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice .
18 Have decided to make quite an easy day of it , and stay at the Youth Hostel in Lausanne tonight .
19 I see you 've got quite a full house here .
20 Little mini and run it for a year , run the engine ru non stop for a year and it 's going to use quite a few gallons .
21 Karl Gesner has had to swallow quite a few blows to his ego over the last few days .
22 You seem to have quite a large sense of pessimism about how to deal with this problem , Frankie .
23 Today , however , we 're going to examine quite a different area — how computers can help librarians to make better use of their stock .
24 however , we 're going to examine quite a different area how computer can help librarians to make better use of their stock .
25 The popular daily press in the Edwardian years began to give quite a prominent place to sport .
26 I was beginning to have quite a good time , and might have imagined for myself a series of tragic scenes of truly poetic power and solemn grandeur , and was wondering how my dear and attractive wife would look in widow 's weeds , when this character started speaking on the radio , and totally ruined my train of thought .
27 Having considered quite a complicated multiplier appropriate for an open economy , it is still worth while considering the ‘ standard ’ fiscal multipliers , usual in public finance texts .
28 You t you said about morale being , but why , and the , having met quite a few tenants from the flats , who in terms of individuals that have come in here , you know , to , to seek advice .
29 The England coach , who is also assistant to Ian McGeechan on the Lions tour to New Zealand this summer , and who has been in Scotland since last Thursday , admitted yesterday that the Scots ' performance against Wales ‘ had been very impressive and must have surprised quite a few people , especially down south ’ .
30 ‘ people who knew him very well must have had quite a hard time with him , he was so depressed .
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