Example sentences of "[vb past] quite [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is probably most famous for his fighter designs during World War Two although personally he was much more interested in small sporting types of which he designed quite a number over the years . |
| 2 | And it looked as if she had been stabbed with a weapon that had a central rib ; the wound gaped quite a bit in the middle . |
| 3 | And er we , we did erm we , we started making er bench models because we found quite a lot of these had been made in Germany . |
| 4 | Yes , where erm my next neighbour gave me some stuff erm , then I went into her shed cos she had erm , some mice problems so dad went in there to have a look round , seeing the poison were wore off and we found quite a lot of old gardening chu , tools . |
| 5 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
| 6 | So I had a bit of an up and a downer and er erm created quite a stir with erm Mr the Clerk of the Council Professor . |
| 7 | It created quite a stir on the camp when they left , as it was decided they would take all their ground crews with them in gliders . |
| 8 | She was probably about twenty at the time and on her return created quite a furore among the ladies with her hair shingled in the latest fashion and sporting lipstick and rouge which was almost unknown at that period . |
| 9 | On the higher literary level it rubbished quite a bit of Hardy and much of D.H.Lawrence . |
| 10 | But after all , ’ he added , in self-excuse , ‘ you fantasised quite a lot of things about Sergei and me , in the novels . ’ |
| 11 | I also caused quite a stir as Moby Dick , and pulled pints as the fat barman at the Dog & Duck in Stratford — well , they ca n't all be famous ! |
| 12 | Finding it caused quite a stir in the brass band world . |
| 13 | NEW-born baby lambs caused quite a stir in Stewart Park , Middlesbrough , on their first public outing in yesterday 's sunshine . |
| 14 | And that caused quite a bit of resentment , I can tell you — the Americans and the Japanese competing for our future . |
| 15 | My leaving Lula caused quite a scandal in Berlin ; but that period with her could have been deadly for me . |
| 16 | It caused quite a sensation in the camp and people were flocking down from far and wide to have a good view , so we were informed later . |
| 17 | And I think it it caused quite a lot of hassle and difficulty for people with young children . |
| 18 | Now maybe the person that ran the book did n't really need to use all that , so at at the end of a a year , say for instance , they 'd quite a bit of money lying on that that black book . |
| 19 | So he 'd quite a lot of work to do when he was quite young . |
| 20 | Each of us consumed quite a bit of time on the complications . |
| 21 | Bit I learnt quite a lot in , from the back you know , in the terraced . |
| 22 | He told quite a lot of people what he 'd seen . |
| 23 | ‘ We certainly ate quite a lot of that , did n't we ? ’ |
| 24 | During our journey we noticed quite a lot of work being done on several station platforms . |
| 25 | So you played quite a bit in the classics during training . |
| 26 | You said that your grandmother played quite a part in your upbringing after your mother died . |
| 27 | In fact , he would have made an ideal barrister — and he defended quite a lot of men who were indicted for various things — got them away because he was too cute for the superintendent who was dealing with the job . |
| 28 | I mean it was tough , life was tough for him and I know that he faced quite a lot of comments both of racist and other other things . |
| 29 | They showed quite a lot of leg , and were undeniably sexy . |
| 30 | As many were at the Very Severe upper end of difficulty , he developed quite a reputation for fearlessness . |