Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] quite a " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the course of my working week I must see quite a number of society magazines . |
| 2 | Yeah , so I should think quite a few . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll spend quite a lot on , say , a Mondi jacket , but will wear it with cheaper skirts from Marks & Spencer and Principles . |
| 4 | I 'll take quite a lot more interest in this competition now , and perhaps Sebastian here will get out of bed to train before school without being called six times — he only starts running practice about ten days before a competition , you know . |
| 5 | I 'll take quite a few egg sandwiches . |
| 6 | Here , I 'll use quite a few more , get your clothes on , you 'll get cold . |
| 7 | Er I myself went for the nearest exit which was out a window , I assume everyone else erm panicked and I could hear quite a few people running running down the corridor from the first floor . |
| 8 | We found then that the bigger the objective lens was the more light could be got and the bigger you could make it , so as I got bigger and got er the chance of making my own lenses and building up lenses of various kinds , I found that I could get quite a good magnification . |
| 9 | If they did locate then I could get quite a good membership |
| 10 | I 'd get quite a surprise because very s small number of men in the shop . |
| 11 | I 'd get quite a bit now |
| 12 | No I would n't splash it all out but I 'd get quite a bit cos of the twenty years . |
| 13 | If you happen to be serving , but I used to serve quite a lot myself . |
| 14 | Although I did go and watch the rugby , I never was a great one for , and I , I used to swim quite a lot . |
| 15 | Well , as you know , when I was a novice I used to do quite a lot of teaching , because the nuns were short-handed , and it was useful practice . |
| 16 | ‘ I used to play quite a lot of football , ’ he explains , ‘ but all I was really good at was knocking the opposition over as a last-ditch defence . ’ |
| 17 | Oh ours was like that , you know , I used to feel quite a shame |
| 18 | I used to have quite a complex about being beaten , but I met Liz after I 'd been beaten hollow all year and she still married me . ’ |
| 19 | I used to know , I used to play at tennis with Bay , the daughter and er the eldest daughter she married another chemist and he ran the place afterwards I think , then there was Jack but er I , I used to know , I used to know quite a lot of the er people on the , who kept these shops . |
| 20 | I nearly always won , as I remember ; and as we left the club or the hall I would make quite a show of hailing a taxi , offering to drop Julian off at the nearest tube . |
| 21 | I would guess quite a bit of money goes into the local economy . |
| 22 | Here one meets with what I would deem quite a drawback . |
| 23 | But I expect I shall learn quite a lot . |
| 24 | Yeah , so I will do quite a lot of erm , stuff erm I should say in geography , sort of work in geography for that things . |
| 25 | Using the bike and the pick-up stick I find that I can cover quite a large area of ground and take some very good exercise at the same time . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I can imagine quite a bit . |
| 27 | Well in our case , I can imagine quite a lot wo n't . |
| 28 | You could always cheat a little and use skeletonised leaves for a cream colouring , though if you look carefully through your collection of pressed materials you may find quite a few unusual shades . |
| 29 | She may change quite a lot , on the surface anyway . |
| 30 | She may take quite a while adding up the wine list . ’ |