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Example sentences of "[pron] quite a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	It is a valuable acquisition for the museum as it describes an experience which quite a number of Middlesbrough people must have gone through . ’
2	This book has given you quite a bit of practical advice — things to actually DO .
3	Some food names tell you quite a lot about what 's in the food , provided you know a lot about food law !
4	Ten minutes spent in this way could well save you quite a lot of time in the long run .
5	On that first visit he told her quite a bit about himself .
6	I did resent her quite a lot for what she did but it gave way after a few months .
7	Over coffee back at the office I tried to pull myself together and sell him a traded option in copper which would , as it turned out , have made him quite a lot of money .
8	It has taken me quite a while to be able to do that .
9	But he bore no malice , and on the way back to the hotel gave me quite a run-down on his cousin Ena , who he said had once been Queen of Spain .
10	Still , the thought gave me quite a jolt of pleasure .
11	They did pressure me quite a lot about how I looked , but I never gave in to their attempts to convert me to pink ; I wanted to look different , and in the main I was quite happy with my image .
12	He told me quite a lot about his experiences during our stay in hospital together .
13	I was missing the warmth of the people , although my two years in the ‘ east ’ gave me quite a lot of material which you will discover in the following pages .
14	It 's typical , they just accepted it all , so it did n't really achieve a great deal , but Mike told me quite a lot of things that I do n't really have any idea , or I did n't know about ,
15	They had in any case been considering asking me to remove her , as she had caused them quite a lot of trouble in one way and another .
16	After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place .
17	I cam away feeling better because I 'd saved myself quite a bit of money , and I 'd done my bit towards helping the environment .
18	The baby could simply point , which is what quite a number of them do .
19	To be able to create different effects by changing plants around is exciting , and it also tends to teach us quite a lot about the relationships in spacing of plants , of different shapes and habits of growth .
20	Nevertheless , the very fact that an explanation should have been created at all tells us quite a lot about the way that the human mind works .
21	This distribution , considered along with within-group variability , tells us quite a lot about the relationship of group scores to individual scores , a matter of some interest to sociolinguists .
22	We have to put a shelf mark on the books so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject , and if you start putting those three things together the librarian , as manager of his library , can start to put all this information together — in fact , the computer digests it for him — to give him an overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective .
23	We have to put a shelf mark on the book so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject .
24	It certainly lost us quite a lot of Conservative votes .
25	i i perhaps in terms of if you think of it in terms of like the employer of the day , Well we 've paid an external trainer to come along , it 's actually costing us quite a lot of money .
26	Altogether this little girl has cost us quite a lot of money .
27	Erm and possibly the installation of mini roundabouts at the minor junctions erm would give us quite a lot of benefit .
28	You know , and you , you then have that sheet , and how much is my time worth , and how much is his time worth , or her time worth , and you can say , you know , these interruptions are actually costing us quite a lot of month .