Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] quite a lot " in BNC.

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1 We could throw in quite a lot of er , extra manure .
2 In fact , I had already picked up quite a lot about ‘ Lucky ’ Lucan and what had happened .
3 So you 've carried out quite a lot of your studies actually in Germany .
4 We got over quite a lot of old problems .
5 Yes , it 's just that quite right , we have n't got a fund , a major fund raising event now until July , unless anything else of , you know , smaller crops up and our two street collections we know will bring in quite a lot of money .
6 ‘ I had thought so but recently he hinted at another asset he hoped to dispose of that would bring in quite a lot of money .
7 The more , the more , the more you put in the formula , that more memory it takes , but even a very simple formula , uses up quite a lot of memory .
8 And we agreed to do that , and we put out quite a lot of publicity .
9 Ipswich players were going down quite a lot , and every time they did , Leeds kindly punted the ball back to them after the drop-ball restart .
10 I know that er the seminar which I attended sparked off quite a lot of lively er debate .
11 ‘ She found he 'd drawn out quite a lot of money on Friday , from two building society accounts they 've got .
12 We 've got now quite a lot of new officers who do n't necessarily have the experience of dealing with the situations .
13 What are the other techniques you do , if you 've do a bit of I mean as a sales trainer , I tend to walk around quite a lot and talks about what ?
14 Yes , erm I read up quite a lot of things about keeping pests away , but I do n't dad reads them and tells me about them , but I forget cos they have to go back
15 At first the main change was that he began to give away quite a lot of money , mainly to Worcestershire charities .
16 The pressed steel system unit case is bulky by today 's standards and takes up quite a lot of desk space .
17 It takes up quite a lot of our time .
18 No , it 's just that … well , I suppose I 've played around quite a lot .
19 Well I went in a choir , I could never sing , and I still ca n't , and er the choir used to go out quite a lot , and er we cycled and we youth-hostelled , even as w or in on working parties , at some of the peak hostels .
20 Otherwise , he goes out quite a lot and he occasionally , according to Gooseneck , entertains ladies in his bedroom . ’
21 Given that it is unobtrusive though , and it is possible to obtain a very concise response to a query , rather than having to read through quite a lot of text before finding the required information , it will at the very least save some time .
22 He had already brought home quite a lot of money .
23 I 've found out quite a lot . ’
24 Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves .
25 Dennis ran down the concrete slope and leapt in as the craft relaunched itself with a loud splash , taking on quite a lot of water .
26 And the amount of it we get from India and Sri Lanka ha has gone down quite a lot .
27 Very hectic at the moment it 's should 've normally been dropping off quite a lot this time but
28 And then of course people had picnics on the Sundays of the summer and er so on it grew more quite a lot from the hiring .
29 And as you can see , even after three print I 've managed to lift off quite a lot of scum from the surface .
30 It will go up quite a lot .
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