Example sentences of "quite a [noun sg] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has come to be quite a feature in the pub . ’ |
| 2 | They always fit perfectly , look painted on , and some have caused quite a furore in the past . |
| 3 | And it looked as if she had been stabbed with a weapon that had a central rib ; the wound gaped quite a bit in the middle . |
| 4 | Ahead of her — quite a way in the distance — she could see some birds pecking at crumbs on the pavement . |
| 5 | So I 've done all this , I 'm quite a handyman in the house , so we talked about it at the cen at the centre here and we actually asked another guy to do it , who 's erm sixty odd and he comes in here everyday er and he was willing to start it or to run it . |
| 6 | They open up the these blast furnaces and the , we 'd all be in the open air and the reflection there used to be quite a reflection in the sky all round there . |
| 7 | Finding it caused quite a stir in the brass band world . |
| 8 | There 's been quite a change in the community dentist because we put |
| 9 | ‘ During my last voyage aboard Lord Nelson we ran into quite a storm in the middle of the Celtic Sea . |
| 10 | That was quite a breakthrough in the recording of these works on period instruments , making me eager for many more discs of Haydn from him . |
| 11 | ‘ With four players you could have quite a battle in the middle of the board . ’ |
| 12 | Laba was quite a celebrity in the village , and from him we learnt just what it is like to be embraced by a really big snake . |
| 13 | It caused quite a sensation in the camp and people were flocking down from far and wide to have a good view , so we were informed later . |
| 14 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 15 | More Antony 's personality seemed to change quite a lot in the play , his true , selfish colours came out in this speech . |
| 16 | The pity of it was , not long after my father died in 1933 things improved quite a lot in the material sense . |
| 17 | Well they 're , they are still waiting for , for confirmation on money , but they 've got quite a lot in the kitty already |
| 18 | As a matter of fact , the hunt is a very ineffectual way of controlling foxes , er they record the number they kill and it 's very , very few , a tiny percentage of the number of foxes there are in the countryside clever foxes er , as indeed I think Mrs mentioned , live in towns nowadays er , but there are still quite a lot in the countryside fortunately and they will survive er , though zoologists tell us er that er by instinct er they see that their numbers are controlled . |
| 19 | ‘ You earned , by your own admission , less than ten thousand from caddying last year and , late in the year , there was quite a drop in the stock market . |
| 20 | The story goes that one dismal morning they were detailed to take their Mosquito , ‘ D ’ for Dog , up for testing , and as there had been quite a party in the Mess on the previous evening , neither was feeling in the best of moods as they trudged out to dispersal at the crack of dawn . |
| 21 | We had quite a party in the end , most enjoyable . |
| 22 | The programme continued on 5 January 1990 , when Mr G Vincent ( Society Member ) of Wolverhampton and a former Chairman of the Tal-y-Llyn Railway , gave a talk and slide show dealing with the minor railways of Shropshire , of which there were quite a number in the heyday of steam . |
| 23 | Pig killing was quite an event in the dale and had-to take place when there was an ‘ R ’ in the month because it was wise to avoid the warmer months since refrigerators were unknown in the dale . |
| 24 | It was quite an excitement in the office . |