Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] quite a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the years between his father 's death and the outbreak of the First War , this became quite a grand establishment . |
| 2 | This went quite a long way towards soothing enraged newspapermen and the dinner terminated quite peacefully , although on its termination my drink stock was reduced by two whole bottles of whisky . |
| 3 | Now , after that , you was er taught all the parts of the waggons , and er this took quite a long while because we did n't know anything about them , and er where they all went and the parts they went . |
| 4 | This proved quite a successful theory for a number of years , in that it stimulated a lot of research and produced a corpus of compatible experimental results . |
| 5 | Some of the poor made quite a good living from these services and one can imagine an efficient ‘ bush telegraph ’ system to alert others of forthcoming requiems . |
| 6 | SATURDAY 'S Charity Open at Prehen in aid of the Waterside Churches Trust Ltd attracted quite a large field of competitors . |
| 7 | 46521 hauled quite an extensive load which included three vehicles from the ‘ Royal Scotsman ’ train , two support vehicles from the Severn Valley Railway and two ex Southern Railway bogie brake vans from Eastleigh . |
| 8 | North and South Trust Co. v. Berkeley [ 1971 ] 1 W.L.R. 470 raised quite a different problem . |
| 9 | The boys of Standard Seven did quite a clever act — there was a screen across the stage on which music had been painted — the notes were holes in the screen and the boys had their heads through these whilst in their mouths were small bazookas — small sound instruments . |