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 .
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