Example sentences of "and [vb past] quite a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er er but the second time the police came and asked quite a lot of questions about it . |
| 2 | Jenny Pitman 's Do Be Brief stepped onto a racecourse for the first time in the first division of the Christmas Pudding Novice Hurdle and made quite an impression in beating Sailor 's Luck , but not half as big as his stable-companion Egypt Mill , who looked something special in landing the second division by 10 lengths . |
| 3 | One arrived in the Shetlands two or three years ago and caused quite a stir . ’ |
| 4 | Although the family ties were not very close , we have always been very friendly and spent quite a lot of time together . |
| 5 | In one such incident , described in some detail , he tells us how ‘ one Friday night an enormous navvy pushed the head of a constable through a shop window and started quite a battle in which uniformed and plainclothes men cheerfully joined in ’ . |
| 6 | I began to use the mornings of those days when I was on evening watch for these little excursions , and covered quite a bit of territory — Leighton Buzzard , High Wycombe , Buckingham , Dunstable , Newport Pagnell , Woburn , Banbury , Northampton , Aylesbury , Bedford , and even as far as Whipsnade and the Chiltern Hills . |
| 7 | Shamus was thinner and looked quite a lot older . |
| 8 | His father was very proud of his house because he had built it on a bit of land at Low Fields and did quite a lot of the construction work himself , with the help of his bachelor brother , Tommy . |
| 9 | I think one of the problems is they had a break in and had quite a lot of gear stolen , and that 's why they want a concrete roof , so they ca n't er get in through the roof . |
| 10 | ‘ I lifted it out onto the pathway and had quite a job to prise the frog from the seemingly lifeless fish . ’ |
| 11 | Yeah I know he took fucking and drank quite a lot as well and he was well buggered . |