Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] quite a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my dream I was overwhelmed by grief ; it woke me , and I had quite a difficulty in getting the horror out of my system . |
| 2 | Cos , in case there was a mistake and on one side and I , and I had quite a number of things accumulate in that way you know . |
| 3 | He used to make the black and whites and the black coats with a silk stripe ; and I quite thought they were costermongers until I went to help a friend of mine — she kept a public house — and I met quite a lot of them there . |
| 4 | And you spent quite a bit of it , that , say on sweets . |
| 5 | Well I do want to come back in fact an and reassure er you that er in fact er we are very concerned about that and we spend a great deal of time talking about the A P C's erm statement policy of intent because it was intended to be modified in the way which we thought would and we spent quite a lot of time erm discussing and am re-amending the importance . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | I think Lazlo introduced this , to us , very refreshing sort of sound that he wanted to achieve and we were able at the beginning to quite take people by surprise with this what was described as a young , fresh sound , and we did quite a number of recordings . |
| 8 | Yes , where erm my next neighbour gave me some stuff erm , then I went into her shed cos she had erm , some mice problems so dad went in there to have a look round , seeing the poison were wore off and we found quite a lot of old gardening chu , tools . |
| 9 | And they saw quite a lot more flags hanging out of windows . |
| 10 | I mean our building was n't touched but I I somehow always thought they would n't come there because they were so trapped , but they did and they spent quite a lot of time trying to get those cars going . |
| 11 | And and he took quite a lot of them but in the time that |
| 12 | In fact , he would have made an ideal barrister — and he defended quite a lot of men who were indicted for various things — got them away because he was too cute for the superintendent who was dealing with the job . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | We stayed in a dormitory that was full of couples with noisy small children , and it put quite a strain on our marriage . |