Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] quite a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | The Bill 's interesting , I think , because they do have quite a few isolated episodes , like that issue of wife battering , which can be quite progressive . |
| 3 | They 've got quite a nice it 's not a large house but it 's a good size lounge and dining room and kitchen . |
| 4 | on the road er They 've got quite a good selection now . |
| 5 | They 've got quite a few of these at erm at , at the Railway Trust , they 've er they 've got a number of these signal boxes . |
| 6 | No it 's changed the er they 've got quite a few plays going on , they 've got chess going on |
| 7 | and they 've got quite a big place at Harrogate where you could go for a day or two to observe what was going on and so on . |
| 8 | They do quite a , they 've got quite a big programme in Gosforth and Newcastle and |
| 9 | but they 've had quite a good dinnertime today so I think they 're letting her stop a bit longer . |
| 10 | If I can just join in the Scum-bashing here , am I the only person that thinks Sharpe is the most over-rated piece of crap ever to have pulled on a red shirt ( and they 've had quite a few ) ? |
| 11 | Should think they 've had quite a few . |
| 12 | They had done quite a good job , Holly could see that , in containing the fire . |
| 13 | Luckily the office below is not used as they have produced quite a smelly mess with droppings and remains of prey falling out from the ceiling ! |