Example sentences of "get quite a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's just a bit , he needs to calm down a bit cos he 's not got , he 's got quite a nice face . |
| 2 | erm on the next er , item er we have er on item ten we 've got the welfare rights and er advice and we 've got quite a long report which I hope you 'll agree is an excellent report , er and er Sue is here to present it . |
| 3 | He 's got quite a long body which is what |
| 4 | Now , we 've got quite a long list , colleagues , of , er , members of the European Parliament and members of Parliament who will be with us during the course of the week for for short stays er Euro European MPs first , er Linden , Cheshire West secretary of the European P L P Steven , Durham , deputy leader of the European P L P Hugh , Strathclyde West Barry , Yorkshire West and from the G M B parliamentary group , er , these MPs may only be present for short periods Nicholas , Newcastle-upon-Tyne East Doug , Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Gerald , George , Hamilton Clive Hammersmith and Giles who 's drawn the short straw , who 's going to give us an address this morning . |
| 5 | But , in this area of East Anglia , which of course , includes this part of Essex itself we have got quite a tidy ratio at the moment of these panels of school teachers and panels of young engineers to actually look at a national curriculum and work out some kind of erm time cycle when a young engineer could come in and actually cross the t's and dot the i's on parts which obviously the teachers do n't know about . |
| 6 | He s got quite a dry sense of humour and was probably ‘ joking ’ about the Norwich match … and lets face it it was a bit of a horror show defensively ! |
| 7 | And also can you put Rebecca 's tracksuit on cos she 's got quite a grubby frock on , so you might as well put her jogsuit on as well . |
| 8 | You may see a guy wandering in and out groups and that 's a guy called Geoff who works for the British National Corpus and these are the people who are trying to have or produce ten million words of the written word and a hundred million erm spoken words , which is a corpus whereby , er come and look at the English language at some time in the future and identify and listen to some of your and your dialects and what you said so make sure you have lots of input as we 've got quite a broad spectrum of different dialects today but he 'll be wandering in and out er throughout today . |
| 9 | I think er , having said that , I mean you 've got quite a decent coverage of attitudes and situations in here already . |
| 10 | on the road er They 've got quite a good selection now . |
| 11 | From the sound of them and from the way they are used , you have probably got quite a good idea of what you think they mean . |
| 12 | you 're , you 've got quite a good backbone there but you have n't got anything that really grabs my emotions . |
| 13 | So you 've got quite a good relationship |
| 14 | Now this psychology , there 's absolutely loads of stuff on it so and the Maitlin book 's got quite a good coverage of it , so I 'll go over it quite quickly , alright ? |
| 15 | No , I think he 's , I said to Robert I 've got quite a good streak cos I 've never seen Sally |
| 16 | for the Water Board so he 's got quite a good job you know , but erm , I 'm , we could n't afford to put the other through the apprentice because I mean you had n't got the money had you then |
| 17 | It 'd probably be a good studio amp as it 's got quite a rich sound , albeit at low volumes . |
| 18 | They add a bit of spice … and I 've got quite a nasty temper when it 's roused . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm going to give you a course of antibiotics , Mr Lane — you 've got quite a nasty ear infection there . |
| 20 | She 's got quite a haunting voice . |
| 21 | I think you 've got quite a significant amount of money which you could offset what we 've been saying just grieves me . |
| 22 | He added : ‘ My horse has got quite a high cruising speed and , even if we stay in the middle , he is more than capable of galloping his way back into the reckoning . ’ |
| 23 | So straight away you see what 's happened in this case his code becomes two eighty one H whereas previously we 've got quite a high code and yet his total income is er not er comparative to the change in code numbers and this is what has that effect , that all that tax on all this income has to be collected against his works pension , thereby causing a lot of confusion and difficulty for er people becoming retired . |
| 24 | The fact that the committee was not merely an hierarchical instrument of management , but represented all departments and a range of statuses , was also felt to be an advantage : Very luckily we 've got quite a few Scale 1 younger teachers , people with new ideas , possibly … and it 's taken up , quite well … it 's quite respected now . |
| 25 | It 's got quite a big shed at the back . |
| 26 | And he 's got quite a big holding in the group — he sold out in return for stock . |
| 27 | They do quite a , they 've got quite a big programme in Gosforth and Newcastle and |
| 28 | and they 've got quite a big place at Harrogate where you could go for a day or two to observe what was going on and so on . |
| 29 | I see you 've got quite a full house here . |
| 30 | Well no , seems to be quite , I was busy yesterday and , and it seemed to be a really busy week , but a couple of appointments fell down , but I 've got quite a busy night tonight . |