Example sentences of "[to-vb] quite a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | one mistake you know forget something and you 'll be going round like this five pints I use , I use to see quite a lot of things missing you know in a certain time |
| 32 | More Antony 's personality seemed to change quite a lot in the play , his true , selfish colours came out in this speech . |
| 33 | This is an initiative which is enabling schools to pay quite a lot of attention to vocational matters . |
| 34 | But she seems to have quite a talent for forgetting my instructions . ’ |
| 35 | I used to have quite a complex about being beaten , but I met Liz after I 'd been beaten hollow all year and she still married me . ’ |
| 36 | So w did you used to have quite a lot of customers who came up from th from there |
| 37 | My parents were not very well off when they bought it , and they had to have quite a lot of work done on it before we could move in . |
| 38 | This group of three- and four-year-olds were quite happy on their own , but by listening their teacher was able to learn quite a lot about their use of words and understanding of their meaning . |
| 39 | But , with a little guidance , it 's possible to get quite a lot of information about the contents and the nutritional value of the food inside . |
| 40 | The government should be able to get quite a lot of the new indirect tax money it is counting on . |
| 41 | But I 'm able to get quite a lot of information and I 'm saying this because you too can get it . |
| 42 | They have them at St Ermin 's , of course , and I know Ossie Thames used to get quite a lot of office workers when he had them at St Luke 's . |
| 43 | Yes bear in mind that that of course , that you 're going to get quite a lot of adult audience going through it as well as kids of course . |
| 44 | Slightly altered configuration , but er tracks put in there , erm and er to house quite a lot of wagons and to er allow trains to er to just be held there until they could move up to erm cos that 's single track beyond there . |
| 45 | It was beginning to dawn on Hoomey that horses like this — surely ? — were going to need quite a lot of attention , feeding , brushing and all that stuff . |
| 46 | You know this is going to take quite a bit of getting used to , ’ he complained . |
| 47 | And I like to take quite a chunk of consolation from the fact they did nt beat us to the title … yet we beat them . |
| 48 | The museums are going to take quite a lot of time . |
| 49 | I realize , now that I think about it , that even our weekend walks in the countryside around London , with their characteristic mixture of dullness and reassurance , are going to take quite a lot of analysis . |
| 50 | I like to make it [ the house ] nice , you know , and I like to spend quite a bit of time cooking and that . |
| 51 | Of course , Madame Duvalle will come over every month to see that I 'm doing things the right way and Monsieur Félix intends to spend quite a lot of time in London . |
| 52 | ‘ When we were first married , I knew you would have to spend quite a lot of time on your own , when I was tied up with business affairs . |
| 53 | Well yes I had to spend quite a lot of time on the line to her because er her husband 's been quite ill with bladder trouble . |
| 54 | I feel certain that many non-disabled adults would find some of the journeys the students learnt to undertake quite a challenge with only rural public transport to depend on . |
| 55 | It was true if you had an American boyfriend you stood to gain quite a bit in material goods , as their PX always seemed to be well stocked with food and silk stockings , cigarettes and make-up — all things in short supply in England — and for this reason if nothing else the Yanks were never short of female company . |
| 56 | That 's as much as her voice will stand , and we 'll have to cut quite a lot of those anyway if she 's going to get through the Season intact . ’ |
| 57 | Even in the sudden rush from the Store the nomes had been able to bring quite a lot of stuff . |
| 58 | When the time comes , as it certainly will , for a Labour Government to introduce quite a lot of progressive legislation that the country desperately needs , I have no doubt that the right hon. Gentleman and his right hon. and hon. Friends will wish to oppose it . |
| 59 | If electrification is linked to the spur line , it will not be necessary for me to do what my right hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point ( Sir B. Braine ) had to do only recently , which was to get the chairman of British Rail to attend another terminus in London and to make quite a row in order for some action to be taken . |
| 60 | This meant that we were obliged to make quite a number of our tools . |