Example sentences of "[verb] have quite a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once one assumes that accumulation is taking place — and Marx asserts that this is the chief aim of capitalism — then the proportion of surplus-value which is unproductively consumed has quite a different significance . |
| 2 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 3 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 4 | But , in fact , he seemed to have quite a campaign going against the staff , so he might easily have said something . ’ |
| 5 | The Admiral was going to have quite a job persuading even the ordinary bloated members to pay more , and to eat and drink less . |
| 6 | You seem to have quite a large sense of pessimism about how to deal with this problem , Frankie . |
| 7 | I was beginning to have quite a good time , and might have imagined for myself a series of tragic scenes of truly poetic power and solemn grandeur , and was wondering how my dear and attractive wife would look in widow 's weeds , when this character started speaking on the radio , and totally ruined my train of thought . |
| 8 | At least in theory ; I must confess to being peculiarly hopeless at this style of climbing and having had quite a struggle on this route in the past , which in no way detracts from its quality . |
| 9 | Also , he may have had quite a job finding it . " |
| 10 | ‘ You must have had quite a talk ! ’ smiled Belinda . |
| 11 | ‘ people who knew him very well must have had quite a hard time with him , he was so depressed . |
| 12 | 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 ) |
| 13 | On the list of officer casualties appeared the name of a young company commander who Pétain recalled had been particularly eager to join his regiment , and had seemed to have quite a promising future . |
| 14 | But she seems to have quite a talent for forgetting my instructions . ’ |
| 15 | Use to have quite a day out there . |
| 16 | Some of those involved had quite a critical , holier-than-thou approach . |
| 17 | It was only water that was let into a confined space but we had a Sports Association which had a section for the swimming and er I way remember bought a couple of old single decker buses from somewhere , I do n't know where and he had them fitted out and rigged up at Stoke Bathing Place , especially for us to go there and change and w we did have quite a good strong section , we used to hold our , an annual what you call a regatta , or , no not a regatta but er in the St Matthew 's Swimming Baths a festival , a swimming festival a gala , yes |
| 18 | But er , there was n't really any even though it was quite , we , we , we did have quite a lot of glasses . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But I do have quite a lot of tall plants , Water wisteria , Hygrophila and Polysperma as well as some bushy plastic plants . |
| 21 | For your call , we do have quite a number of callers on the line at the moment , if you could just be patient with us , because the time now is half past twelve . |
| 22 | She does seem to have quite a free hand for a woman under twenty one |
| 23 | I had had quite a grounding in this at the City Temple . |
| 24 | For Anna , pregnant at eighteen ) her stretch marks had had quite a devastating effect on her by the time she was eight months pregnant . |
| 25 | Mr. Barlow and Ena had had quite a giggle about those . |
| 26 | Poor old Yallop , Spruce thought , had had quite a day of it after twenty-five entirely uneventful — and promotionless — years in the force . |
| 27 | We 've had quite a busy afternoon , Mr Andropulos , and at the moment we 're anchored over a plane that crashed into the sea just about the time we were receiving your SOS . ’ |
| 28 | I 've always thought very highly of Michael Jaffé , until recently Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum , and I 've had quite a lot of pleasant conversations with him . |
| 29 | As social work you 've had quite a contact erm with people on the flats , erm living in the situation they actually most people in the flats . |
| 30 | Well , we 've had quite a lot of money from Oxford from different people so you do n't know . |