Example sentences of "there was quite [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there was quite a scuffle at that time . |
| 2 | It was such a bright sunny day that there was quite a holiday feeling in the air . |
| 3 | There was quite a quantity of useless crap in there , based on the malai five constitutional principles of justice , tolerance etc . |
| 4 | I came to the conclusion that there was quite a bit of room in the psyche of the British clockmaking establishment for a little humility . |
| 5 | She was a very nice girl named Eugena , I think , and there were guards at the end of the hotel corridors , I remember giving them the slip and wandering around Khabarovsk on my own in a snowstorm , only to be told the next day that there was quite a bit of excitement in the city during the night because a Siberian tiger had come into the city and was wandering the streets at the same time I was ! |
| 6 | We get told that erm in the early times there was quite a bit of social activities going on , lots of clubs and things |
| 7 | So there was quite a bit of business in Newmarket for anyone who |
| 8 | There 's , there was quite a bit of apathy where horse secuirty is concerned . |
| 9 | At the time , there was quite a campaign starting to build , calling for Wimbledon to dig up the grass . |
| 10 | There was quite a bundle . |
| 11 | I do n't know if you remember , but there was quite a punch-up over who would win it . ’ |
| 12 | There was quite a to-do about it in the paper . |
| 13 | There was quite a gang of us that went down to the station — four Walshes and me . |
| 14 | There was quite a run on the unfashionable theatre 's box office but it did n't take old Fred by surprise . |
| 15 | It was only Sunday services but er we did occasionally have , cos you do n't get a wedding every day , but we did sing occasionally at the weddings , the biggest service was at Easter when there was quite a performance at Easter yes Joh Johnny he was a he was in the choir and he 's , there was another woman that might be interested a Mrs in Street during the fourteen war they used to have the Red Cross collection and they 'd organize processions round round the streets collecting for the Red Cross and they used to knit socks and send them out and all that sort of thing |
| 16 | Course eventually the , I mean , there was er there was Sergeant who was a butcher out the High Street there was Alf was a barber out of the High Street there was er Frank , Frank he was another butcher out of the High Street there was er miners er teachers , I mean there was quite a mixture of occupations in , in the , in the Home Guard . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm afraid there was quite a scene last night in Hong Kong . ’ |
| 18 | There was quite a fireworks display . |
| 19 | I chose Canberra because there was quite a nest of chick workers there , including one of my own past students . |
| 20 | There was quite a scrum of people at the bar giving their orders for large post-prandial brandies and ports and the commissionaire waved me through . |
| 21 | ‘ You earned , by your own admission , less than ten thousand from caddying last year and , late in the year , there was quite a drop in the stock market . |
| 22 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 23 | Mm , there was quite a lot of publicity given to that was n't there ? |
| 24 | There was quite a lot on drugs — a lot on tranquillisers . |
| 25 | There was quite a lot of it went on . |
| 26 | But in the very early universe , everything was very close together , so there was quite a lot of uncertainty , and there were a number of possible states for the universe . |
| 27 | ‘ They rushed into it so fast there was quite a lot of raised eyebrows in Summer Bay . |
| 28 | I know there , there was quite a lot of encouragement to actually leave your dividend in and build up interest on it . |
| 29 | er because at that time there was quite a lot , you would get one mill in probably with somewhere about seventy looms in it and there would only b be less than ten of them working . |
| 30 | Now that , that Street with , with , from two hundred yards of it there 'd be nine , nine terraces each with twenty four houses in each terrace within this two hundred yards so there were a lot of people closely knit together and er there was quite a lot of unem unemployment , quite a lot of poverty . |