Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] was quite [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun , I thought what have I let myself in for because I 'd never worn dog tags before and I 'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise , I 'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days |
| 2 | But he told the court it was quite the opposite . |
| 3 | As Keith Miller , the biggest hitter of them all , gave away his wicket first ball it was quite a performance , but Bailey remembers one factor that few would believe today . |
| 4 | On closer inspection there was quite a muddle between ‘ Chinese imperialism ’ and ‘ Vietminh military operations ’ , but it seems to have been an elementary mistake to base the assessment entirely on capability rather than intention , which the paper admitted , and was an extraordinary foundation for Rusk 's conclusion which was that : ‘ Above all , we can not afford to jeopardise the considerable measure of success our policy has already had in Indo-China by neglecting to provide the proper maintenance for our investment . ’ |
| 5 | As well as the competition there was quite a party . |
| 6 | In all probability it was quite the opposite . |
| 7 | But erm it 's quite hard if you 've been up a lot at night and then you have to go and do the whole of the next day of work , but fortunately our rotas are n't too bad so we 're never on two nights in a row compared with the hospital which was quite a lot harder work . |
| 8 | According to 's account there was quite a lot of abuse by the Party members who had actually managed to blackmail and embroil different peasants or |
| 9 | er because at that time there was quite a lot , you would get one mill in probably with somewhere about seventy looms in it and there would only b be less than ten of them working . |
| 10 | By this time there was quite a crowd gathered in our little room . |
| 11 | At face value he was quite a man . |