Example sentences of "[vb pp] quite [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's considered quite an honour . |
| 2 | It was considered quite an innovation when , after the First World War , the " progressive officials " of R. & R. Clark decided on " a combined " Annual " " in 1921 , " instead of one section having a smoker all on their own and the other a high tea and gossip " , as the ST[ put it . |
| 3 | ‘ Some people are booked quite a way in advance and others we do n't get a lot of notice of at all … |
| 4 | ‘ The high school I was at was among the first to have a tiny in-school radio station , news , views , interviews and a touch of music , and consequently we 'd attracted quite a bit of somewhat condescending attention from real stations around town . |
| 5 | This happens to be a good strategy for a side with material superiors , and computers have won quite a lot of games with this strategy . |
| 6 | But I lied about the afternoon and I was worried when you wanted to keep the betting slips because you probably know that one of the horses won and I would have won quite a lot of money if I 'd stayed in the betting shop . |
| 7 | We had already amassed quite a pile of seizures following irregularities uncovered during the previous week 's work at Ullapool , and we returned with Reg Clarke on board to have another bite at the cherry . |
| 8 | I was about to respond that she 'd added quite a lot to the letters , but Masha came out of the bathroom . |
| 9 | And they do actually now add , they only used to give you Italian terms , they 've now add added quite a lot of the French ones and the German ones . |
| 10 | Some of them had come quite a way , from Phobos , even , people I knew when I was still hustling for my white card . |
| 11 | You have come quite a distance , after all . |
| 12 | ‘ That river has risen quite a bit since earlier on , ’ murmured Charlie . |
| 13 | Mind you the , the erm , the wages had risen quite a bit during the time . |
| 14 | He had grown quite a bit , both upwards and outwards and , as I shook hands with him , I reflected that it would not be long before he won a professional tournament . |
| 15 | I think we 've , we 've said quite a bit about erm previously about the symbolism of , of a wedding , if |
| 16 | Er well I think I 've said quite a bit about it . |
| 17 | Probably I could have done quite a bit better if I 'd been forced to work , because if I 'm not , I 'm not so bothered to do the work . |
| 18 | she done quite a bit of hovering really |
| 19 | Well , sometime Wednesday you go , you really go through it cos you you 're not you 're not halfway through but you 're still but you 've done quite a bit . |
| 20 | At a three day event , you 've already done quite a distance by the time you get to do the course ! |
| 21 | Well , it is really strange , because I 've done quite a lot of stage work , but it 's funny because a lot of people — even other film actors — do n't know about it . |
| 22 | the Labour Party in Leeds had done quite a lot of work in support of the Spanish Government . |
| 23 | Erm I do recognise some faces , I know some of you recognise me and eh cos we 've done quite a lot of things together , but this afternoon what I 'm going to tell you about is how I fit in with Council , I do n't think any of you know that or know what the Local Government Unit is . |
| 24 | Yes , it 'll be worth following that up , cos that 's , that 's one of the erm , they , they 've done quite a lot of work of Amnesty and general studies in the past , there was a sheet of sort of quotes of , how good the Amnesty was , and there was one from the teacher at Birchwood or what , what 's Margaret Dane School , so erm , yes , if , if you could definitely follow that up erm John |
| 25 | ‘ She 's done quite a lot of good for this country , ’ Bill says . |
| 26 | I do n't I thin I think there 's probably a lot lot less sexism just in terms of I think we 've won their respect by you know and and certainly when th they did n't want us to picket in the beginning , and then over the months really the women have done quite a lot of successful picketing when we 've been asked and and we 've staged quite big pickets quite a lot of you know the big pickets were really organized and the rallies have been organized by us and really sort of quite a lot of the input into into the strike I think has come from the women 's support group in in quite a unique way . |
| 27 | that John Lewis does n't publish its erm most of its charitable giving either and that they done quite a lot |
| 28 | But at the moment , I can not speak with the same feeling of achievement about caring for er , elderly , the elderly relative , whereas I think I can say with conviction we 've done quite a lot for those with small children . |
| 29 | So how we , so there was no obvious leader and how are we gon na pull ourselves ah ahead , well we have to improve our media coverage and we 've done quite a lot on that , John 's been very successful in getting quite a lot of media coverage both for individuals within the firm and for the the firm as a whole . |
| 30 | I understand he 's done quite a lot of his work in Venice . ’ |