Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] quite [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er this has been altered quite a lot since then , but you can still see the er gate that was er to the yard of the station . |
| 2 | An explicit leaflet and poster for students sloganned ‘ take a course in safe sex ’ has been causing quite a furore . |
| 3 | His chief backer is Roy Hattersley , whom he has been seeing quite a bit lately . |
| 4 | Lately George has been doing quite a lot of libel , where there is also a jury to persuade and headlines to be had . |
| 5 | The death grant has been finished quite a long time ago , but there was the death grant erm because I can remember you know this , people telling me about this . |
| 6 | and er they used to come to me and say how much does this man owe now and if he 'd been paying quite a bit next time he came in the shop they was all round him trying to persuade him to buy |
| 7 | Ten minutes before you might have been having quite a close conversation . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps the producer thought the gentleman had had enough media exposure for a while , as I was given to understand that he had been granted quite a bit of air time one way and another in the recent past . |
| 9 | ‘ I learned from her diary that she had been seeing quite a lot of — of a man . |
| 10 | ‘ The ferocity of the fire suggested it had been going quite a while before it was discovered . |
| 11 | Right some of our speakers are retires I I 've been retired quite a number of years , as you 'll have noticed I give the talk on income tax and I 'm a retired tax inspector . |
| 12 | Well , I 've been hearing quite a lot about timeshare recently . |
| 13 | I understand from Valerie — I 've been seeing quite a lot of Valerie , as I think she 's indicated — that you were visiting your husband today . |
| 14 | You 've been doing quite a bit with things that add up to ten have n't you and you 've been doing things like seven add three comes to ten and three add seven can you read my figures ? |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been losing quite a lot of weight since I came to Hochhauser . |
| 16 | I understand you 've been socializing quite a lot with the Italians over the last twenty four hours or so . |
| 17 | And , of course , he 's so revered for this sleight-of-hand that he 's constructed a two and a half hour show to appeal mainly to his legions of cultish disciples who 've been waiting quite a few years for him to make sense again . |
| 18 | " Well , " he said , " we think we lose a lot of aircraft , because we have been monitoring quite a — few they just disappear from the radar screen 50 miles off the coast , sometimes more , sometimes halfway across the sea if they are making a dash far Flamborough Head . |
| 19 | ‘ I never thought it would happen to me , but I have been left quite a large sum in a will . |
| 20 | I have been practising quite a lot in training . |
| 21 | She 's been getting quite a lot of in our jokes over a couple ha ! |
| 22 | By the way , this was the period when I could to a milk shop for a hape'orth of milk , but it 's not the halfpenny that people think now , cos the currency 's been altered quite a lot , it was very trifling , but it 's true . |
| 23 | It 's his first film for five years and he told me it 's been creating quite a stir , because of its subject matter . |
| 24 | He 's been to watch quite a few games here since the day he left and that shows he still loves the place . |
| 25 | Now I know she lives in the Nottingham area now although she 's been widowed quite a few years . |