Example sentences of "had quite a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gamow had quite a sense of humor — he persuaded the nuclear scientist Hans Bethe to add his name to the paper to make the list of authors " Alpher , Bethe , Gamow , " like the first three letters of the Greek alphabet , alpha , beta , gamma : particularly appropriate for a paper on the beginning of the universe ! |
| 2 | He had quite a bit on Harvey , a Kennedy Catholic who had been ‘ the good friend ’ of the late Emma Kerr . |
| 3 | ‘ We had quite a bit of success . |
| 4 | She had quite a bit of work done . |
| 5 | So what , elder children had res had quite a bit of responsibility ? |
| 6 | ‘ Our final position showed that we had quite a bit of initiative and stamina . |
| 7 | Fareda , I 'd like to come back to you because you said that you had quite a bit of information from people currently in Kuwait . |
| 8 | It 's , I , I mean these , these , the work with , with the original action network seems to , seems to come and go , you 've got a very large amount at one point and then nothing for sometime , it just depends er , I think which country they 're targeting and how much there is , because we had quite a lot on Malawi did n't we during the early part on last year not much on South Africa recently , as if they do n't quite know what to do , you know with the situation there it 's not quite er clarified . |
| 9 | Then I suddenly found I had quite a lot of projects going on , working for Kenny Rogers and Jimmy Ruffin … |
| 10 | The sun had quite a lot of warmth in it and he set off , behind the back of the Manor and along the bank of the river , to the field where he was to work . |
| 11 | This auction is unusual as the deceased had quite a lot of paintings of cats — we normally have more pictures of dogs at this particular auction . |
| 12 | Yes we had quite a lot of pilot |
| 13 | Aye well this man that I ke know he had quite a lot of money and he just gave a six pence to the kirk , and he had always plenty of money when he died . |
| 14 | They had quite a lot of money last week . |
| 15 | We had quite a lot of laughs . |
| 16 | The National Consumer Credit Federation , representing check traders , told us that the agent going from door to door , usually with long experience of working for the firm , had quite a lot of discretion over whether or not to lend , though with small firms the bosses like to keep in touch themselves , often going on collection rounds so as to see customers , and certainly weighing up doubtful cases themselves . |
| 17 | We had quite a lot of homework , so that those of us on a train journey involving an hour on either side of the school day , and then a couple of hours work , were not left with much free time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He had his two elder sons with him , he had quite a lot of time for enjoyment , certainly to start with , he went hunting round Woodstock quite often , and they played tennis , The erm Racquet Sport , and I think they played tennis in The Racquet Sport , I 'm not absolutely certain , was actually just erm facing onto Blue Boar Street , erm behind the Unicorn Inn . |
| 20 | By the time we got level with the riot , we had quite a crowd of supporters on our side of the street singing along . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I would have said we had quite a number of things to discuss , my darling , ’ Luke contradicted her , the endearment a taunt and a challenge as always , never meant . |
| 23 | Few Pauline contemporaries noticed the change in Thomas from an animal carefreeness into the youth who ‘ had quite a number of temptations to print , and at the age of fifteen easily gave way ’ . |