Example sentences of "[vb past] quite [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark : I certainly found quite a distinct difference between actually going out looking for sex , which I often associated with going to discos and , on the other hand , just making friendships which happened in a much more natural and less forced way . |
| 2 | Quite by chance he heard that they had another depôt off Mitcham Road , West Croydon and on visiting that found quite a different state of affairs . |
| 3 | Many of the wood carving subjects were taken from book illustrations , particularly after the invention of printing , when books illustrated with woodcuts found quite a large circulation . |
| 4 | ‘ With the Floyd I used quite a different system : two Fender 150 watt heads and two pairs of Marshall 4x12s . |
| 5 | Then Davey moved quite a long way away for his work and she hardly saw him . |
| 6 | He drew quite a vile peg and tackled it with a float and shotting pattern included in his float fishing encyclopaedia . |
| 7 | Well when I worked at , when I started off in the I quite liked my job in there , you made your own pay , and I liked , it was a starching job , I 'd quite a good job in there . |
| 8 | In fact , both Stirling 's legs were temporarily paralysed and he suffered quite a severe back injury which was to keep him immobilized for the best part of two months . |
| 9 | SATURDAY 'S Charity Open at Prehen in aid of the Waterside Churches Trust Ltd attracted quite a large field of competitors . |
| 10 | It was early still , but , while she had quite enjoyed his company and having someone else to converse with in her own language , an early night seemed quite a good idea . |
| 11 | It seemed quite a tall order at the time but in practice it worked out well and proved to be a most enjoyable experience as well as one of our more memorable tours of duty . |
| 12 | He seemed quite a different man from the one she had met the other day across Mr. Crowther 's desk , quite different from the man who talked to Jenny this afternoon . |
| 13 | She was determined that it was n't he who had affected her appetite either , and went down to dinner that night and ate quite a substantial meal , only to return to her room and spend the next hour again having trouble ousting the wretched man . |
| 14 | I do n't know but then frankly thinking but then I got them in the end you know I just did n't sell them because nobody paid that much and then ah in the outset and I paid quite a big price for for two for Patrick and me and then when they were they they dropped the price and then I got some more . |
| 15 | 46521 hauled quite an extensive load which included three vehicles from the ‘ Royal Scotsman ’ train , two support vehicles from the Severn Valley Railway and two ex Southern Railway bogie brake vans from Eastleigh . |
| 16 | He was a disciplinarian , but a very fair and good man and organized quite a large number of servants , including three footmen and several housemaids and kitchen-workers . |
| 17 | At times , Wilson does n't even spare himself : in the late 1970s , living in London , the wiry Yorkshireman , ‘ developed quite a firm relationship with the bottle ’ and became ‘ distanced and depressive ’ . |
| 18 | He developed quite a severe migraine headache and felt very sick by Day 3 and he was on the verge of giving up . |
| 19 | We raised quite a good sum for the first time and that went to the Barnardos home . |
| 20 | North and South Trust Co. v. Berkeley [ 1971 ] 1 W.L.R. 470 raised quite a different problem . |
| 21 | One day , as I was waiting to be admitted to the prison , I heard quite a young man talking to the guard in broken but familiar Italian : it sounded like Triestino . |
| 22 | Italy , France and Spain also honoured him with medals and ribbons , but in England , his native homeland , he never achieved quite the same degree of recognition . |
| 23 | As I flew the approach I observed quite a tall tree on the threshold , which I assumed to be the obstruction . |
| 24 | Novices who had been in the London Road End for at least a good part of one season displayed quite a detailed acquisition of social knowledge which was appropriate to correct conduct in the Rowdies . |
| 25 | This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation . |
| 26 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
| 27 | I remember when Mike and Robin went into their flats I spent quite a long time with them |
| 28 | When when the strike first started , being in the summer months we needed quite a strong picket line to talk to the tourists , at various gates cos that was the main source of income at the quarry at that time . |
| 29 | Charles Wood and I worked quite a long time to explore the framework of The Knack and take away a lot of the theatrical implications . |
| 30 | She took a run-up , carved quite a beautiful arc against the sky and promptly vanished , with a shoosh , into very long , dry grass . |