Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] quite a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hope to meet quite a few of them , ’ she said yesterday . |
| 2 | You seem to have quite a large sense of pessimism about how to deal with this problem , Frankie . |
| 3 | And the other part of facial waxing is , on the chin , we tend to get quite a few growing on our chin , and upper lip . |
| 4 | I think one of the things that is necessary is that you do need quite a strong centre within government at the moment , and , as we deal with all these complicated issues , whether they are … political or intelligence issues [ such ] as … the Falklands Isles or whether it 's something highly controversial such as nuclear power or defence or even road systems , you need a much stronger centre than we have got at the moment . |
| 5 | The Bill 's interesting , I think , because they do have quite a few isolated episodes , like that issue of wife battering , which can be quite progressive . |
| 6 | But I do get quite a few people phone me as you know asking for information . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've met quite a few during the past five years , ’ he agreed smoothly . |
| 8 | I 've done quite a few ads , the latest Marmite ad is mine and now I 've got the part in Brookside which is great , I 'm really enjoying it . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I 've done quite a few police jobs and appeared in front of the Royal Family . |
| 10 | Well the thing is after a while when you 've done quite a few it comes it comes fairly easy , and you can do it in your head . |
| 11 | We 've done quite an extensive survey around Ottery , looking at the times people use these facilities , and the weekends , especially Saturdays , is the favoured time . |
| 12 | I know down at Evans I 've noticed quite a few things in there , there are different |
| 13 | Well , I think perhaps what we 'll do cos you 've missed quite a few of these out so I think what we 'll do erm is to leave that what you 're doing there for a moment we 'll go through this mark this and the one 's you have n't done we 'll do so that you 've got this one straight . |
| 14 | you 've missed quite a few have n't you ? |
| 15 | We 've seen quite a dramatic increase this year . |
| 16 | I 've seen quite a few er in the so well you see we belong wi the Guild is fit into three tiers . |
| 17 | Peach and cherry trees are out in blossom , and we 've seen quite a few birds . |
| 18 | They add a bit of spice … and I 've got quite a nasty temper when it 's roused . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm going to give you a course of antibiotics , Mr Lane — you 've got quite a nasty ear infection there . |
| 20 | You may see a guy wandering in and out groups and that 's a guy called Geoff who works for the British National Corpus and these are the people who are trying to have or produce ten million words of the written word and a hundred million erm spoken words , which is a corpus whereby , er come and look at the English language at some time in the future and identify and listen to some of your and your dialects and what you said so make sure you have lots of input as we 've got quite a broad spectrum of different dialects today but he 'll be wandering in and out er throughout today . |
| 21 | I think er , having said that , I mean you 've got quite a decent coverage of attitudes and situations in here already . |
| 22 | So you 've got quite a good relationship |
| 23 | on the road er They 've got quite a good selection now . |
| 24 | you 're , you 've got quite a good backbone there but you have n't got anything that really grabs my emotions . |
| 25 | No , I think he 's , I said to Robert I 've got quite a good streak cos I 've never seen Sally |
| 26 | erm on the next er , item er we have er on item ten we 've got the welfare rights and er advice and we 've got quite a long report which I hope you 'll agree is an excellent report , er and er Sue is here to present it . |
| 27 | Now , we 've got quite a long list , colleagues , of , er , members of the European Parliament and members of Parliament who will be with us during the course of the week for for short stays er Euro European MPs first , er Linden , Cheshire West secretary of the European P L P Steven , Durham , deputy leader of the European P L P Hugh , Strathclyde West Barry , Yorkshire West and from the G M B parliamentary group , er , these MPs may only be present for short periods Nicholas , Newcastle-upon-Tyne East Doug , Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Gerald , George , Hamilton Clive Hammersmith and Giles who 's drawn the short straw , who 's going to give us an address this morning . |
| 28 | I 've got quite a nice little collection now . |
| 29 | They 've got quite a nice it 's not a large house but it 's a good size lounge and dining room and kitchen . |
| 30 | Yes you have you have a territory each , yes , because it 's er , er , it 's we , we 've got quite a large territory , have n't we ? |