Example sentences of "[vb past] quite a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The architect most commonly associated with this work was George Baines who designed quite a few churches for Baptists . |
| 2 | We drew quite a few games away . |
| 3 | He scored quite a few goals , I remember one in particular against Arsenal in some cup game in the dying seconds of extra time ( there was still long enough for Arsenal to equalise though ) . |
| 4 | She knew , with a feeling of detachment , that she attracted quite a few stares herself , primarily from men , and that if she had not had André at her side she would have been in very real danger of having to concoct a few efficient exit lines . |
| 5 | ‘ At first I was the only guest wearing it , but I noticed quite a few others following suit . ’ |
| 6 | Fill players like O'Grady and Hibbit , then later Bates and Yorath played quite a few games . |
| 7 | The influence of overseas coaches and players in rugby league has raised the standard of individual players enormously , and added quite a few numbers through the turnstiles . |
| 8 | When Eva took some of her black students to play the tambourine at a big meeting in Salisbury it raised quite a few eyebrows and temperatures . |
| 9 | Brian knows Brian knew everything more or less or arranged quite a few things anyway |
| 10 | er , but it needed quite a few repairs doing to it |
| 11 | Let us take it as read that Hawkwind started quite a few trends in their time . |
| 12 | Actually I saw so many women saw quite a few women up there . |
| 13 | I saw quite a few artists whom I wanted to represent on the trip . |
| 14 | Ward had his camera with him , and though he led me round at a breathless pace , talking all the time about the terrible religious cult of the Aztecs , he also took quite a few pictures , usually with myself or some other human in the foreground to give an indication of the scale of the place . |
| 15 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ DeFries always thought that in order for us to absorb musical culture as it should be from America , we should actually go and live in America , and it took quite a few months for it all to be organized . |
| 16 | And we before that we made quite a few runs to Kirkwall with a that was a small one that we had and erm you had to get the bus from Evie of course to Kirkwall and back the same way . |
| 17 | I got quite a few things in there . |
| 18 | I got quite a few kicks out of doing that . |
| 19 | I bought quite a few medicines actually . |
| 20 | did quite a few graphs last time , and you 're good on algebra , manipulating things , you 're good on trig , vectors and matrices , how do you feel about those ? |
| 21 | Having come prepared with a warm coat , mackintosh , and umbrella , I braved the elements , and sat on the open stand to watch this enjoyable match , as did quite a few others . |
| 22 | Your dear brother left quite a few problems behind when he failed to take that corner . |
| 23 | She also had quite a few things two small Picassos and a picture by Robert Delaunay called ‘ The window ’ that Taírov was given when they were in Paris on tour together , and a very fine Yakulov . |
| 24 | At first I did n't mind doing it , but after two months I found out he had quite a few women . |
| 25 | ‘ My husband lived practically next door to a children 's home when he was young and had quite a few friends in there , ’ said Jackie . |
| 26 | We had quite a few visitors over the next few days and Amin , particularly , was very encouraging . |
| 27 | When it was Spencer 's turn he found that although he had quite a few hours in his ‘ Fury , the Spit was a harder aeroplane to fly . |
| 28 | We then had quite a few chances before Norwich scored on a rare break with 11 mins left . |
| 29 | I worked at City Motors and I stayed there for seven years I had quite a few jobs before that but I liked that one . |
| 30 | Uncle was always wanting to have that tail cut shorter and we had quite a few battles about it , but I won and Prince kept his long tail . |