Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] quite a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | This is hard , since on a busy day you will sometimes have to wait quite a while for the waiter to take your order or for the arrival of the food . |
2 | ‘ 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 . |
3 | That 's as much as her voice will stand , and we 'll have to cut quite a lot of those anyway if she 's going to get through the Season intact . ’ |
4 | She did seem to meet quite a number of people on her walks ; people whom I knew a little , so that fragments of conversation pursued me . |
5 | Kenneth Graham did come to visit quite a lot between 1880 and 1910 . ) |
6 | Obviously the tones are sharper without DBX but the 238S does seem to generate quite a lot of noise on its own . |