Example sentences of "they [vb base] quite a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They feel a bit beleaguered here , and they cause quite a sensation when they walk about in the streets with their long hair ( the men , I mean ! ) . |
| 2 | I like Marshalls in the studio if a heavy sound is called for , but I find they vary quite a lot . |
| 3 | What happens when it burns or explodes , so the okay , the potassium nitrate and the carbon and the sulphur burn and they give quite a bit of er C O two . |
| 4 | Apparently they get quite a charge our of Viz 's thick-headed puns and lame sexual and excremental allusions which , when they were first heard in burlesque halls a hundred years ago , were already ancient . |
| 5 | They do quite a lot of stuff in there . |
| 6 | We are publicized anyway by Eurostep and they do quite a lot of publicity — how effective their publicity is I do n't know , but we our publicity is as a back up to existing publicity . |
| 7 | It 's too much of a journey ai n't it , they do quite an amount there I think still |
| 8 | Well they achieve quite a lot . |
| 9 | Now they spend quite a bit of their money , which is nice . |
| 10 | Cos they spend quite a lot of time , they spend their holidays in France . |
| 11 | It takes a while for them to actually settle in , and they need quite a lot of support because we do work in teams and they 're quite well established teams with definite personalities . |
| 12 | Erm , by hangers-on I mean that there are all the Dukes and the Viscounts and whatever else there is and that whole strata in society , which , I think is English society , erm I mean I know that there are Dukes in Scotland but there are n't so many , and I mean they own quite a lot and I think that it 's impossible to have a classless society because the monarchy perpetuate class divisions . |