Example sentences of "was quite a good [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ROS : It was quite a good play nevertheless .
2 There was quite a good helping of pudding but only a tiny piece of meat .
3 I hope Saturday 's as good as last Saturday it was quite a good night that .
4 And that was quite a good idea , because late at night following wedding parties and other , if anybody was behaving in an disorderly manner and people were returning home , they would always tell the policeman that they saw that a rowdy crowd were coming along .
5 And erm in her particular way she was quite a good cook too .
6 Well he was quite a good dancer himself
7 It was quite a good performance , I it looked like being a goal-less draw at the end , but really it was a better performance I thought , than against Milwall .
8 So would you mind describing how you got it up there again cos I thought it was quite a good story .
9 But that was that was quite a good school , went through there via a Mr , he was a very nice teacher , very efficient , and he did n't believe in the cane , he did n't .
10 I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house .
11 Alice had stopped to listen to them because this man , this kind-faced fair one , was quite a good performer .
12 He was quite a good listener sometimes . ’
13 Breeze liked studying people 's eyes , and she was quite a good judge of character .
14 the broken metal and then the steam roller was back and fore on it and It was quite a good surface you know , but
15 Now Will brought down an old van er which was scrap it was quite a good body I mean and he painted on it , We 're still open , er something like , Despite Transport and General Workers ' Union picketing we are fully open , and he plonked this van with no wheels on it just the body right th in the entrance of th on his own ground naturally er right in front of the pickets which was like you know tantalizing .
16 It was quite a good reason really .
17 And er it was quite a good move I think , to dispose of the , the charabancs and concentrate on the private cars .
18 Er , that was quite a good place that Yasensgat whatever it 's called , was n't it ?
19 There was quite a good reverb effect on his voice .
20 It was quite a good example of lobbying , in fact .
21 Careers librarians , that was quite a good point but we 've actually t got a group of professionals working within the service , we need to make sure they have access to other professional librarians and staff development that would be
22 And then I went to Hereford for six months and I did er six months of medicine , and that was a long way from home in Essex and er we all sort of er mucked in and er made our own entertainment and cooked for each other and that erm was quite a good time .
23 It was quite a good venue anyway .
24 I thought it was quite a good joke myself
25 Er just before we go onto you union work , what were you having was quite a good employer I believe ?
26 The latest CBI distributive trades survey , published today , underlined what is expected to be confirmed in tomorrow 's retail sales figures for January , namely that there was quite a good bounce-back from the unexpected fall in December .
27 That was quite a good game actually , in the end .
28 But I did n't like working at Johnny Walkers so I think it was quite a good thing at the time , although I did n't really like it I 'm glad now that it happened cos I 'd probably still be working in there .
29 yeah and she said it was quite a good thing
30 ‘ He was quite a good teacher , right ? ’
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