Example sentences of "[pers pn] do quite [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ( I am Treasurer of the Scottish Cycling Council ( the Scottish ‘ arm ’ of the CTC ) , and I do quite a bit of cycling for leisure , including much of the Borders Region which is , in many ways , ideal for cycling ) .
2 I keep very well really , I do quite a bit of walking , you know ?
3 Like I said , I do quite a lot of other stuff as well and for that I use things like little Fender amps , and I 've got a Peavey Profex which I use with a MIDI foot controller .
4 I give lectures in the autumn , I do quite a lot of management seminars and inspirational speaking at sales conferences .
5 ‘ Yes , ’ she acknowledged reluctantly , lifting her small chin so that her fine hair fell away from her face , ‘ I did quite a bit . ’
6 I did quite a lot on that single bed machine , even intarsia and then I saw a double bed advertised for £15 .
7 And then of course I , I did quite a lot of children 's nursing then , er but also general nursing as well , a bit o a bi some midwifery and er mainly ge general nursing .
8 she done quite a bit of hovering really
9 ‘ I expect you do quite a bit of travelling in your work ? ’ he probed , when she wanted to be the one asking the questions .
10 You do quite a lot , do n't you , Marcus ? ’
11 erm I think it ca n't be bad for you because you do quite a lot of the same exercise as you 'd do in proper aerobics
12 She did quite a lot of snorting , quite a lot of brittle laughter and a very great deal of what Henry took to be assumed inarticulacy .
13 Well she did quite a lot of good in the early days did n't she ?
14 ‘ Live , we did a couple of things from ‘ Genesis To Revelation ’ and we did quite a lot of very gentle acoustic things which did n't last .
15 I we did quite a lot of these er these wee slipper boxes .
16 And I think it sort of paid off in making people feel in the town during the year that they had a mayor , that the ceremonial actually meant something and related to them , and certainly I still find tremendous numbers of people who sort of come along and invite you to things — people who before would have probably said ‘ Oh it 's a waste of money ’ , and I think we did quite a lot to change that attitude .
17 And certainly I still find tremendous numbers of people who sort of come along and invite you to things , people who before would have probably said , ‘ Oh , it 's a waste of money , ’ and I think we did quite a lot to , to change that attitude .
18 I think Lazlo introduced this , to us , very refreshing sort of sound that he wanted to achieve and we were able at the beginning to quite take people by surprise with this what was described as a young , fresh sound , and we did quite a number of recordings .
19 Well , apple tart , but you know , things we bring in , apple tarts erm , custard slices , a the occasional eclair erm , yeah , we do quite a range , actually .
20 you put your glasses on to try and see , and you ca n't pluck the eyebrows because the glasses are in the way so we do quite a lot of eyebrow trimming , erm at salon .
21 that John Lewis does n't publish its erm most of its charitable giving either and that they done quite a lot
22 Mind you , it looks as if they did quite a bit of homework and know kelly is a converted winger …
23 They do quite a lot of stuff in there .
24 We are publicized anyway by Eurostep and they do quite a lot of publicity — how effective their publicity is I do n't know , but we our publicity is as a back up to existing publicity .
25 It 's too much of a journey ai n't it , they do quite an amount there I think still
26 People and animals portray in this , in the Tahiti painting , never seemed to be in a hurry , erm , even when always relaxed even when working and I wondered how much of this was cultural and erm , how much was due to the large amounts of erm drugs consumed in most paintings at this , this period but that I suppose I 'll , I 'll never know for sure about , erm with this painting I found in the background , er there 's a figure , that 's looking in on the situation and I , I for myself think 's its probably Gaugin , as he portrays himself as Christ , which I think he did quite a lot to me in , in , in a few of his paintings and so this painting gave me tremendous sense of being looked in on and this figure in the background , was the person that was doing the looking in .
27 I think the architects cos I was I was engaged in trying to find a sort of temporary work for er somebody in archaeology and and erm I remember I got to s to an architect and and he did quite a lot of that sort of work you know and they
28 Actually , I think he did quite a lot for gay understanding , to not wrap up those characters he played at all .
29 Far from stemming speculation , it did quite the reverse , and the press soon descended on the Sallyport Hotel to inspect the hotel register with its missing pages .
30 Oh he does quite a bit of , he does a bit of erm supplying it
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