Example sentences of "[v-ing] quite [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 2 | In the cloistered shelter of the medieval monasteries brewing was becoming quite an art in the skilled hands of monks well used to brewing table beers for their abbots . |
| 3 | When Florence of Worcester draws elements of his account of the battle of Assandun in 1016 from Sallust he is revealing quite a lot about the classical interests of twelfth-century historians , but also raising doubts about his own reliability , and William of Malmesbury , whose methods so often find favour with modern scholars , nevertheless records miracle stories which his critical faculties ought to have led him to doubt , and perhaps did ; and like historians of all periods , William , Florence and their colleagues were at the mercy of the bias and inadequacy of their sources , as well as their own prejudices and errors . |
| 4 | She slumped back on to the sofa , revealing quite a lot of bare thigh . |
| 5 | There 's no er evidence of a significant increase in the peasants ' standard of living quite the reverse in this period . |
| 6 | At least ten birds have been sighted on the island this year , and they are causing quite a stir among ornithologists . |
| 7 | A SEEMS to me as though you may have been overfeeding them with a fertiliser containing quite a lot of nitrogen and perhaps over-watering . |
| 8 | So in parts of the next chapter you will be getting quite a lot of detail . |
| 9 | So how we , so there was no obvious leader and how are we gon na pull ourselves ah ahead , well we have to improve our media coverage and we 've done quite a lot on that , John 's been very successful in getting quite a lot of media coverage both for individuals within the firm and for the the firm as a whole . |
| 10 | Winter has come at last , and we have had some severe frosts , but we are still getting quite a lot of sun , in marked contrast to last year 's everlasting grey skies . |
| 11 | She 's been getting quite a lot of in our jokes over a couple ha ! |
| 12 | No well we 'll , look we 're getting quite , we 're getting quite a lot of erm attention . |
| 13 | As well as the speed , he 's getting quite a taste for the adulation from friends and relatives . |
| 14 | We appeared to have students of the same native wit coming to courses in the arts and the sciences and the technologies , and the technologies were requiring quite a lot of these colleges to kick off with unclassified degrees , and finally began to weaken a little , I think , when they found that business studies and art and design were doing no such thing . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been losing quite a lot of weight since I came to Hochhauser . |
| 16 | If your house is detached and secluded , then you must think about spending quite a bit of money on boundary protection — high walls and fences with added obstructions on top , such as trellis or privet . |
| 17 | Remember that you will be spending quite a lot of time out there working , and probably some time observing . |
| 18 | we would spending quite a lot of money |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll probably be spending quite a lot of time writing poetry . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It was quite frightening to see the extent of the flooding , and a tribute must be paid to the emergency services for the part they played in rescuing quite a number of people , ’ said a Dyfed County Council spokesman . |
| 21 | Well , we 're on the second summer , just finishing now , and we 're having quite a lot of produce coming off the plots , and we 're hoping to start an orchard as well , just to keep it developing . |
| 22 | ‘ This new haka is n't having quite the effect on the opposition we 'd hoped for ’ |
| 23 | You 've been doing quite a bit with things that add up to ten have n't you and you 've been doing things like seven add three comes to ten and three add seven can you read my figures ? |
| 24 | You may find yourself doing quite a bit of ‘ line learning ’ . |
| 25 | Mm , it 's alright I 've just seen a , a woman er passing a three wheeler on the pavement here , wheel chair and she was doing quite a bit of a speed , I was just gon na get my , my my speed checker |
| 26 | Lately George has been doing quite a lot of libel , where there is also a jury to persuade and headlines to be had . |
| 27 | ‘ We 're doing quite a lot of research in most of these areas — though of course we all agree we ought to do more . |
| 28 | He was now doing quite a lot of acting tormented . |
| 29 | He was doing quite a lot of this , I noted . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm doing quite a lot of work behind the scenes and talking to various people but I 'm not rushing into anything . |