Example sentences of "make quite a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have made quite a start , under the seal of the Citizen 's Charter . |
| 2 | We must have made quite a sight trailing along the road with scythes , rakes , forks , the sledge and the sweep , mowing machine , and our food in a basket . |
| 3 | John had made quite a serious attempt to stop him joining the mining expedition , and then had dropped it . |
| 4 | Before their marriage he had made quite a hobby of photography . |
| 5 | Ah , but I think the campaign , the public campaign and the pressure that 's been put on companies have definitely made quite a , quite a difference . |
| 6 | Made quite a mess of it , has n't he . |
| 7 | An and I think of course we were made quite a fuss of too . |
| 8 | You can see we 've made quite a saint out of your little Gabriel . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I think I 'd just made quite a good speech but I thought they were joking , ’ he says . |
| 10 | But it was that 's what it that 's where er you know , there was he had been quite successful in this lawsuit you know , he 'd made quite a bit of money . |
| 11 | So that just made quite a big hole in our money . |
| 12 | They made quite a little group at train call . |
| 13 | Although I hated the very idea of selling things to people who might not want to buy them ( even if it was good for them ) I made quite a few sales , the main commission deriving from the sale of a Group Insurance Scheme to 32 men from the Times-Herald staff . |
| 14 | So they made quite a party of it , and had tremendous fun . |
| 15 | This was bad luck on Helga , who got drunk with an American soldier and was not allowed to forget it , and on Hildegard , who was taken in by the police when she was seen talking to an ex-convict , but worked in favour of Martin , who made quite a business out of playing cards for money but who was judged ‘ on the whole to be doing no worse than any other boy of his age in his particular Position ’ . |
| 16 | Walter made quite a business from stealing rationed food from the grocer he worked for and selling it on the black market , while Theo dealt mostly in men 's clothes which he shifted on to a second-hand dealer who paid ready cash . |
| 17 | For example , I recently made quite a serviceable Market Harborough from an old pair of continental reins and a running martingale . |
| 18 | Peggy made quite a good joke . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ The album made quite a lot in royalties , but it 's not like anyone 's bagging vast amounts of money , ’ says Neneh . |
| 21 | She made quite a fuss . |
| 22 | He made quite a decent job of it too . |
| 23 | They made quite a lot of noise . ’ |
| 24 | And we before that we made quite a few runs to Kirkwall with a that was a small one that we had and erm you had to get the bus from Evie of course to Kirkwall and back the same way . |
| 25 | He made quite a fuss about it , saying it was time she left the nest , stood up to the forceful Elise and lived her own life . |
| 26 | These usually make quite a small pool and can frequently be purchased from department stores as well as from garden centres and water-gardening specialists . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Matey encouragingly , ‘ we hold it every year , and we usually make quite a large sum to give to the various charities connected with the Church . ’ |
| 28 | Some police make quite a tidy income ringing up their contacts at the bottom end of Fleet Street whenever they have a customer of public interest . |
| 29 | and make quite a bit of money |
| 30 | I mean that if it 's over like two years make quite a difference though . |