Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] quite a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I carry on walking for quite a bit . |
| 2 | ‘ But I think I could keep it going for quite a while . |
| 3 | Doubt it cos it was convalescing for quite a while . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's turning into quite an evening for you , is n't it ? |
| 5 | ‘ It 's pretty fast and I expect everyone to be going at quite a lick from the start , ’ he said . |
| 6 | and I thought , it came out erm , incorrect pin number , please remove your card , I thought at least I 'm getting it back you know so I whipped it out , I said to mum , I 'm gon na have to pay for this with a cheque , I said , I ca n't get the cash out , and she , she said why , and I said I , I forgotten my number , I was getting in quite a panic cos I knew I did n't have it written down anywhere at home . |
| 7 | So , she 's very keen , so she 's coming in quite a bit erm , over the first half term and she hopes that 'll continue during the year , not particularly with just the year eight people but maybe get other people to involve themselves as well . |
| 8 | All of those extra sums , if you total them up , we 're talking about quite a lot of money over the budget and that 's why I 'm getting concerned because there seems to be some between what the budget said we were going to do and what a chairman here and a chairman there has agreed , and I I 'd like to get it back onto position . |
| 9 | Talking to quite a lot of different people . |
| 10 | This was caused by the sudden interest of the water authorities in privately owned schemes using waterpower which , owing to the abundance of steep-flowing rivers in Wales , were proliferating at quite a rate . |