Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] quite a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but dad visits him quite a lot . |
| 2 | Well I know with Arnold and Antony is Arnold 's not so bad cos he uses his quite a bit er but the tendency with Antony is , when the bill comes in each month th the rental is double what the usage is most of the time . |
| 3 | It takes me quite a while to go through them cos I check every one careful like . |
| 4 | There 's a lot of traffic here and it takes me quite a bit to cross all the roads to get to where I want . |
| 5 | Erm y'know even if it takes them quite a while to fill out y'know go through all eighty items y'know which could be erm y'know kind of , well depending how quickly they work y'know , sort of half an hour or something but if you if you get some er er a sort of type-written draft run off um I du n no , next Tuesday 's quite a quite a short deadline but maybe the Tuesday after that er we can try them on the first years if you like ? |
| 6 | I knit with a Brother 830 and enjoy it very much , I also look forward to your magazine each month which helps me quite a lot . |
| 7 | Well it it tells you quite a lot , but it does n't actually mention that bit . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the very fact that an explanation should have been created at all tells us quite a lot about the way that the human mind works . |
| 9 | This distribution , considered along with within-group variability , tells us quite a lot about the relationship of group scores to individual scores , a matter of some interest to sociolinguists . |
| 10 | We have to put a shelf mark on the books so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject , and if you start putting those three things together the librarian , as manager of his library , can start to put all this information together — in fact , the computer digests it for him — to give him an overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 11 | We have to put a shelf mark on the book so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject . |
| 12 | It gives me quite a shock . |
| 13 | ‘ Being out out there with my son and my wife Debbie ( McGee ) makes it quite a family show , ’ he says . |