Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] quite a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Understandably , perhaps , the novelty of a new event in the school 's weekly calendar caused quite a stir , and about half of the school ( the younger , more excitable half ) arrived at the sports hall early , before the supervising teachers had arrived from their early morning staff briefing . |
| 2 | The old laibon has quite a reputation . ’ |
| 3 | That group progressed quite a lot that year , from being almost unteachable in the beginning , to being at least teachable , and I was getting some fair work out of them … but it was very time consuming . |
| 4 | When the time comes , as it certainly will , for a Labour Government to introduce quite a lot of progressive legislation that the country desperately needs , I have no doubt that the right hon. Gentleman and his right hon. and hon. Friends will wish to oppose it . |
| 5 | , yes , what they do is say a bloke , one bloke owns quite a bit of that cricket ground , Tesco 's he said , Tesco 's what they sa , they know that he want 's , he 's put the plans in to upgrade all , to get a bigger site somewhere else , for |
| 6 | The common law provides quite an armoury of such principles , and new applications can be found for them by a bold judge . |
| 7 | Fiery Fred and Steady Steadman caused quite a stir when they took the field for Hygiene as well . |
| 8 | ‘ In my other capacity as head of Merill Lynch , I opened an office in Tehran … during the 70s … and I thought that that country had quite a future . ’ |
| 9 | Modern English have quite a history . |