Example sentences of "[to-vb] quite a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I happen to know quite a lot of clever , amusing , wise , energetic old people who are excellent company and among whom are several of my friends . |
| 2 | I used to know , I used to play at tennis with Bay , the daughter and er the eldest daughter she married another chemist and he ran the place afterwards I think , then there was Jack but er I , I used to know , I used to know quite a lot of the er people on the , who kept these shops . |
| 3 | She did seem to meet quite a number of people on her walks ; people whom I knew a little , so that fragments of conversation pursued me . |
| 4 | Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went . |
| 5 | We used to grow quite a bit of stuff on the land and er we lived . |
| 6 | Who then went on to win quite a lot of money , cos he could |
| 7 | ‘ I used to play quite a lot of football , ’ he explains , ‘ but all I was really good at was knocking the opposition over as a last-ditch defence . ’ |
| 8 | These seemed to be excellent local background material and I was able to use quite a number of facts from the pamphlets , giving the appropriate reference in each case . |
| 9 | Obviously the tones are sharper without DBX but the 238S does seem to generate quite a lot of noise on its own . |
| 10 | You should be able to do quite a bit of useful contemplation about whether you actually love this boyfriend of yours . ’ |
| 11 | It 's gone well , and so there are plans to do quite a lot of touring next year , starting in March , as Brian 's album does n't come out in the States until January or February . |
| 12 | However , the evidence also suggests that information spillovers are more important in research than in development , and that a firm has to do quite a lot of its own R&D , if it is to be able to absorb information spillovers effectively . |
| 13 | Well , as you know , when I was a novice I used to do quite a lot of teaching , because the nuns were short-handed , and it was useful practice . |
| 14 | John had advised him to transfer from Rome airport to the railway station to avoid a five hour wait at Rome , but oh ! no ! big boots insisted on flying , although the late flight from Rome is notorious — and , of course , just after John had left for Naples airport , having to do quite a lot of the journey on foot , as late evening buses stop at a given time on Public Holidays , rang to say that Alitalia was alleging weather problems at Naples and so the passengers would be transferred by coach arriving at 2am . |
| 15 | She had by that time , however , had a whole week in which to do quite a lot of thinking . |
| 16 | So he would have had to do quite a lot of work . |
| 17 | She scuttled over to the far side of the room and had managed to read quite a lot of the letter before Julius came charging after her , taking the paper back from her with such force that it almost ripped in half . |
| 18 | ‘ I hear you 're going to inherit quite a lot of money . ’ |
| 19 | By shopping around and comparing prices it is often possible to save quite a bit of money , but even so , dry mixes always work out more expensive than mixing your own , although they do also cut out the preliminary stages of the mixing process . |
| 20 | Poppy had managed to gather quite a collection of workmen 's boots , so I went to the pet shop and bought her some toys , which she loved playing with . |
| 21 | Obviously , you have to wear quite a lot of protective clothing to minimise the risk of getting injured . |
| 22 | I had it on my schedule to see quite a lot of you over the next few weeks , Folly . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | This is an initiative which is enabling schools to pay quite a lot of attention to vocational matters . |
| 25 | So w did you used to have quite a lot of customers who came up from th from there |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The government should be able to get quite a lot of the new indirect tax money it is counting on . |
| 29 | But I 'm able to get quite a lot of information and I 'm saying this because you too can get it . |
| 30 | 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 . |