Example sentences of "[to-vb] quite a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , er , the other problem with it is , you really have to know quite a lot about history , or biography to really to really get into . |
| 2 | You 've got to know quite a lot about rhythm . |
| 3 | We used to grow quite a bit of stuff on the land and er we lived . |
| 4 | Who then went on to win quite a lot of money , cos he could |
| 5 | ‘ I used to play quite a lot of football , ’ he explains , ‘ but all I was really good at was knocking the opposition over as a last-ditch defence . ’ |
| 6 | Obviously the tones are sharper without DBX but the 238S does seem to generate quite a lot of noise on its own . |
| 7 | So he would have had to do quite a lot of work . |
| 8 | Well , as you know , when I was a novice I used to do quite a lot of teaching , because the nuns were short-handed , and it was useful practice . |
| 9 | She had by that time , however , had a whole week in which to do quite a lot of thinking . |
| 10 | ‘ I hear you 're going to inherit quite a lot of money . ’ |
| 11 | By shopping around and comparing prices it is often possible to save quite a bit of money , but even so , dry mixes always work out more expensive than mixing your own , although they do also cut out the preliminary stages of the mixing process . |
| 12 | This is an initiative which is enabling schools to pay quite a lot of attention to vocational matters . |
| 13 | My parents were not very well off when they bought it , and they had to have quite a lot of work done on it before we could move in . |
| 14 | Yes bear in mind that that of course , that you 're going to get quite a lot of adult audience going through it as well as kids of course . |
| 15 | But , with a little guidance , it 's possible to get quite a lot of information about the contents and the nutritional value of the food inside . |
| 16 | But I 'm able to get quite a lot of information and I 'm saying this because you too can get it . |
| 17 | They have them at St Ermin 's , of course , and I know Ossie Thames used to get quite a lot of office workers when he had them at St Luke 's . |
| 18 | It was beginning to dawn on Hoomey that horses like this — surely ? — were going to need quite a lot of attention , feeding , brushing and all that stuff . |
| 19 | And I like to take quite a chunk of consolation from the fact they did nt beat us to the title … yet we beat them . |
| 20 | The museums are going to take quite a lot of time . |
| 21 | I realize , now that I think about it , that even our weekend walks in the countryside around London , with their characteristic mixture of dullness and reassurance , are going to take quite a lot of analysis . |
| 22 | I like to make it [ the house ] nice , you know , and I like to spend quite a bit of time cooking and that . |
| 23 | Of course , Madame Duvalle will come over every month to see that I 'm doing things the right way and Monsieur Félix intends to spend quite a lot of time in London . |
| 24 | ‘ When we were first married , I knew you would have to spend quite a lot of time on your own , when I was tied up with business affairs . |
| 25 | Well yes I had to spend quite a lot of time on the line to her because er her husband 's been quite ill with bladder trouble . |
| 26 | It was true if you had an American boyfriend you stood to gain quite a bit in material goods , as their PX always seemed to be well stocked with food and silk stockings , cigarettes and make-up — all things in short supply in England — and for this reason if nothing else the Yanks were never short of female company . |
| 27 | Even in the sudden rush from the Store the nomes had been able to bring quite a lot of stuff . |
| 28 | If electrification is linked to the spur line , it will not be necessary for me to do what my right hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point ( Sir B. Braine ) had to do only recently , which was to get the chairman of British Rail to attend another terminus in London and to make quite a row in order for some action to be taken . |