Example sentences of "and [vb past] quite a [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 Er er but the second time the police came and asked quite a lot of questions about it .
2 Although the family ties were not very close , we have always been very friendly and spent quite a lot of time together .
3 I began to use the mornings of those days when I was on evening watch for these little excursions , and covered quite a bit of territory — Leighton Buzzard , High Wycombe , Buckingham , Dunstable , Newport Pagnell , Woburn , Banbury , Northampton , Aylesbury , Bedford , and even as far as Whipsnade and the Chiltern Hills .
4 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 .
5 I think one of the problems is they had a break in and had quite a lot of gear stolen , and that 's why they want a concrete roof , so they ca n't er get in through the roof .
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