Example sentences of "[was/were] quite [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tights , very long in the leg , were quite a problem , hanging round her ankles in great folds however hard I tried to keep them up , and settling into the enormous-seeming bedroom slippers to make walking dangerous . |
| 2 | ‘ They were quite a part of the international scene in those days from what I can make out . |
| 3 | They were quite a success , too , at first . |
| 4 | The house that I was actually born in is still there , number twenty five er after a while I moved across the road to a bigger house when , cos my mother had an another son and a daughter and then we moved over to the , so when we were quite a bit in the Stoke area . |
| 5 | there were quite a bit Lyness , because I remember once the Hoy Head coming down from Stromness with a lot of party makers aboard it and cameras out and afore they knew where they were the admiralty men was there whipping the films out of the cameras . |
| 6 | It came in very useful because they were quite a while before the gas was connected . |
| 7 | There were quite a lot of drugs around at the time and somehow or other , I did n't quite know how , I managed to scrape enough together to feed my children and keep my flat going and just keep my life ticking over . |
| 8 | You may think that there were quite a lot of us , but illegal hare coursers are not well known for verbal or physical reticence . |
| 9 | We both really enjoyed this old house in the Kimbolton Road , for as well as us there were quite a lot of folk from the BBC . |
| 10 | There were quite a lot of people in and around the pool , all suntanned and all drinking the Sunday morning liveners — Bloody Marys , boilermakers , highballs , iced beer . |
| 11 | There were quite a lot of shorts in the collection , taking the place of the recently fashionable short skirts . |
| 12 | There was a sort of host who dished out the sherry and took each new arrival round the groups ; though as there were quite a lot of us he could n't remember all our names so we were forced to say them . |
| 13 | And also I used to notice that there were quite a lot of em empty window , you know , in the flats , and erm you know I just got a feeling that this was really where I I found that I would be able to work , or that I wanted to work . |
| 14 | She was quite near the plane now and there were quite a lot of newspaper photographers around her , but she did not stop walking . |
| 15 | Oh they 've come down in price from when I 'm talking about , when they first come first out , they were quite a lot , a lot more |
| 16 | I only came into the room and I switched it on and i there were quite a lot of recriminations with people who |
| 17 | And of course after the war broke up , there were quite a lot of X W D lorries , lorries on the market and they were converted into a erm charabancs which was an open bus as it were . |
| 18 | When I was a little girl , there were quite a lot of other little girls who used to come and play , but now … " |
| 19 | There were quite a lot of parents that Robert did not recognize . |
| 20 | But I do n't think it really ever I mean there were quite a lot of initiatives like that you know of people thinking of different ways really of of sticking together to combat er you know what I 've been talking about which was smashing unionism and er forcing lower wages really onto the the already low paid , which er really seems to be what Thatcher 's all about you know in order to er curb inflation and create a very divided society where er half the population seem to have to live either on the dole or in in poverty really in in derelict bits of Britain . |
| 21 | Well I 've never had the experience and I do n't think my family have , I er no I should n't think it was really , they might , I suppose somebody , they used to have a reputation at one time these chemists was doing minor , giving you something for some minor ailment , but I would n't care to sort of er , I 'd never think of it , no there were quite a lot of doctors about you know , there was er Doctor at the top of Road and there was Doctor , Doctor oh there was a lot of doctors about . |
| 22 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 23 | There were quite a lot of loss right enough . |
| 24 | There were quite a lot of enthusiastic er audience but er they were mostly grey beards like me . |
| 25 | were , were quite a lot , were n't there ? |
| 26 | Maybe she was quite intelligent ; but she was no more so than were quite a number of the poor she already knew . |
| 27 | My next tour took me through the outside gardens , of which there were quite a number , all of a very high standard . |
| 28 | I thi I mean there were quite a number of people , I would say on the flats that we did n't make contact with at all . |
| 29 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 30 | 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 . |