Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] quite a " in BNC.
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| 1 | family she says quite an eye opener an they had write lines if they did anything wrong one boy just I reckon she could carried him but |
| 2 | Enjoying herself by rebelling ; drinking and flirting with her husband 's friends , she creates quite a reputation for herself . |
| 3 | She sounds quite an eccentric . |
| 4 | She seems quite a contented li er , girl , lady . |
| 5 | She seems quite a complicated player in some ways |
| 6 | But I , I do n't know whether Dave has , I mean you see my friend Pam whose husband Steve is an airline pilot she knows quite a bit about this because Steve was an illegitimate child in London , in West Ham . |
| 7 | Well he plays quite a bit of guitar . |
| 8 | For someone determined to make money from an early age , it represents quite a failure . |
| 9 | It is not necessary to reach agreement with Dr Bryan 's moral scheme in order to see that it involves quite a different moral emphasis from that projected on to the 1930s by post-war nostalgia . |
| 10 | He has quite a lot of nasal resonance . |
| 11 | Erm number one strength Alan erm although he does n't see to eye T eye eye to eye with er a lot of the city institutions and a lot of the shareholders erm he he does know his business erm and he has quite a strong character , very forceful and . |
| 12 | ’ I think he has quite a genuine scientific interest in how promotions may be engineered . |
| 13 | And it was very very interesting , he has quite an assortment of them , but he has n't , |
| 14 | For years I bet that mind you it looks quite a newish one that one and son . |
| 15 | Cos it looks quite a decent reasonable bungalow . |
| 16 | This neglected village has not done much to draw attention to its grand literary connections , though it has quite a prepossessing seventeenth-century church with a delightful octagonal tower and a two-storey cloister . |
| 17 | what it does to our economy , whether people can afford this that and the other , but surely it has quite a considerable social impact on people 's lives being unemployed ? |
| 18 | The distribution of points in it contains quite a lot of information , but the basic clustering algorithm will lose it because this algorithm will lump all the points into a single cluster . |
| 19 | Please help yourself it contains quite a lot of er information leaflets and whatnot . |
| 20 | It is not too awful to be confronted with people cleverer than oneself ( in science journalism it happens quite a lot ) but it is intolerable to share the world with people who apparently are party to bodies of knowledge and ways of thinking that make all one 's own ideas seem petty . |
| 21 | You know , it happens quite a few times , does n't it ? |
| 22 | I mean , I think it , I think it says quite a lot about our society . |
| 23 | Yeah , and also he lives so far out and he was saying you know , Julie 's up in er in Birmingham , Andy 's up in Birmingham , he 's had no one to see , Eileen 's come back up to Birmingham he sees quite a lot of and er I think he 's just a bit lonely . |
| 24 | It varies quite a lot . |
| 25 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 26 | It takes quite a bit of practice to orientate and get the right position for the shot , and this is something worthwhile perfecting during the winter or when you are just flying locally . |
| 27 | Indeed , it takes quite a wise person to be sufficiently aware that they have a problem to seek professional help . |
| 28 | But it takes quite a time for the liquid to solidify and the glass to splinter and fragment . |
| 29 | I mean we do n't whether she sort of it does n't say whether she volunteered to go and talk to the people in the school , but even so it 's quite it takes quite a lot of doing to stand up in front of a group of people you do n't know and talk about the work . |
| 30 | Erm something they tell you throughout the , it takes quite a long time . |