Example sentences of "did quite a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did quite a lot of snorting , quite a lot of brittle laughter and a very great deal of what Henry took to be assumed inarticulacy . |
| 2 | The truth was that General Winstanley did quite a lot for Jack . |
| 3 | ‘ Live , we did a couple of things from ‘ Genesis To Revelation ’ and we did quite a lot of very gentle acoustic things which did n't last . |
| 4 | I did quite a lot on that single bed machine , even intarsia and then I saw a double bed advertised for £15 . |
| 5 | People and animals portray in this , in the Tahiti painting , never seemed to be in a hurry , erm , even when always relaxed even when working and I wondered how much of this was cultural and erm , how much was due to the large amounts of erm drugs consumed in most paintings at this , this period but that I suppose I 'll , I 'll never know for sure about , erm with this painting I found in the background , er there 's a figure , that 's looking in on the situation and I , I for myself think 's its probably Gaugin , as he portrays himself as Christ , which I think he did quite a lot to me in , in , in a few of his paintings and so this painting gave me tremendous sense of being looked in on and this figure in the background , was the person that was doing the looking in . |
| 6 | I think the architects cos I was I was engaged in trying to find a sort of temporary work for er somebody in archaeology and and erm I remember I got to s to an architect and and he did quite a lot of that sort of work you know and they |
| 7 | His father was very proud of his house because he had built it on a bit of land at Low Fields and did quite a lot of the construction work himself , with the help of his bachelor brother , Tommy . |
| 8 | And then of course I , I did quite a lot of children 's nursing then , er but also general nursing as well , a bit o a bi some midwifery and er mainly ge general nursing . |
| 9 | Actually , I think he did quite a lot for gay understanding , to not wrap up those characters he played at all . |
| 10 | I we did quite a lot of these er these wee slipper boxes . |
| 11 | Well she did quite a lot of good in the early days did n't she ? |
| 12 | And I think it sort of paid off in making people feel in the town during the year that they had a mayor , that the ceremonial actually meant something and related to them , and certainly I still find tremendous numbers of people who sort of come along and invite you to things — people who before would have probably said ‘ Oh it 's a waste of money ’ , and I think we did quite a lot to change that attitude . |
| 13 | And certainly I still find tremendous numbers of people who sort of come along and invite you to things , people who before would have probably said , ‘ Oh , it 's a waste of money , ’ and I think we did quite a lot to , to change that attitude . |