Example sentences of "have [verb] quite [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has received quite an unpleasant shock . ’ |
| 2 | And it 's reputation has travelled or it it 's false reputation has travelled quite a long way . |
| 3 | He added : ‘ My horse has got quite a high cruising speed and , even if we stay in the middle , he is more than capable of galloping his way back into the reckoning . ’ |
| 4 | The anthropological fieldworker who eventually returns to the social setting of his homeland usually finds that it has become quite a different place . |
| 5 | The academic , intellectual types also have a cultural background and are interested in aspects of the arts , and erm we are very fortunate , I think , also in that people are able to give more time than perhaps business people , and so a number of the members of the committee are university people and we are able to use the Gardner Arts Centre , which has become quite an exciting area , in that it 's open to experimental production , so therefore we attract a lot of the London critics . |
| 6 | Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner . |
| 7 | ‘ It has taken quite a large chunk out of our lives , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Your life has taken quite a different turn since then . ’ |
| 9 | This Committee has rejected quite a large proportion of the officers proposed statements . |
| 10 | yes , well I used to read a lot of story books , travel avidly and I think I forget all about the author and the story , but I remember one portion where they discovered a depression in the middle of a continent where it was in excess of and they 'd grown quite a different specie |
| 11 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
| 12 | I see you 've got quite a full house here . |
| 13 | Having considered quite a complicated multiplier appropriate for an open economy , it is still worth while considering the ‘ standard ’ fiscal multipliers , usual in public finance texts . |
| 14 | ‘ people who knew him very well must have had quite a hard time with him , he was so depressed . |
| 15 | Mr le Gros , who sang a serenade filled with double entendres to his fickle mistress in the Ballet des plaisirs , must have had quite a high voice since he was normally assigned parts notated in either alto clef ( C3 , the usual clef for the high tenor voice known as the haute-contre ) |
| 16 | The bit has various clefts cut out and would have served quite an intricate lever lock . |
| 17 | This is where some fault or other has manifested itself sufficiently to affect the flight , though the critical event might have happened quite a long time before and been ‘ cooking up ’ until the divergence took place . |
| 18 | In others the stick will have to move quite a long way forwards before the wing unstalls and the spin stops . |
| 19 | ‘ I do seem to have come quite a long way . ’ |
| 20 | Such may possibly have been the motive behind the creation of the muftilik of Cyprus , but the case for the argument seems stronger in isolation than it does when set against the fact that by 979/1571 the creation of such joint muderris/muftiliks appears to have become quite a common practice . |
| 21 | I felt a little guilty at leaving the Websters , as we had developed quite a good relationship . |
| 22 | The daughters of Charles the Cheesemonger were still very much around , however , and as the offspring of a man in trade and one who , despite his early death , had enjoyed quite a full working life , they were fairly well-breeched compared to the daughters of their Uncle John . |
| 23 | We 've done quite an extensive survey around Ottery , looking at the times people use these facilities , and the weekends , especially Saturdays , is the favoured time . |
| 24 | We 've seen quite a dramatic increase this year . |
| 25 | They had done quite a good job , Holly could see that , in containing the fire . |
| 26 | John had made quite a serious attempt to stop him joining the mining expedition , and then had dropped it . |
| 27 | They add a bit of spice … and I 've got quite a nasty temper when it 's roused . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm going to give you a course of antibiotics , Mr Lane — you 've got quite a nasty ear infection there . |
| 29 | You may see a guy wandering in and out groups and that 's a guy called Geoff who works for the British National Corpus and these are the people who are trying to have or produce ten million words of the written word and a hundred million erm spoken words , which is a corpus whereby , er come and look at the English language at some time in the future and identify and listen to some of your and your dialects and what you said so make sure you have lots of input as we 've got quite a broad spectrum of different dialects today but he 'll be wandering in and out er throughout today . |
| 30 | I think er , having said that , I mean you 've got quite a decent coverage of attitudes and situations in here already . |