Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] quite a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never did get the hang of table tennis but I became quite a useful bantam-weight and once even represented the club against Bethnal Green . |
| 2 | ‘ With the Floyd I used quite a different system : two Fender 150 watt heads and two pairs of Marshall 4x12s . |
| 3 | Well when I worked at , when I started off in the I quite liked my job in there , you made your own pay , and I liked , it was a starching job , I 'd quite a good job in there . |
| 4 | I do n't know but then frankly thinking but then I got them in the end you know I just did n't sell them because nobody paid that much and then ah in the outset and I paid quite a big price for for two for Patrick and me and then when they were they they dropped the price and then I got some more . |
| 5 | As I flew the approach I observed quite a tall tree on the threshold , which I assumed to be the obstruction . |
| 6 | I remember when Mike and Robin went into their flats I spent quite a long time with them |
| 7 | One day , as I was waiting to be admitted to the prison , I heard quite a young man talking to the guard in broken but familiar Italian : it sounded like Triestino . |
| 8 | Charles Wood and I worked quite a long time to explore the framework of The Knack and take away a lot of the theatrical implications . |
| 9 | So I had quite a wide variety of requests from students . ’ |
| 10 | The thing I hated most about my pregnancy was the hot weather and my body changing I had quite a nice figure before but now along with the stretch marks , I hate my body . |
| 11 | I had quite a good vocabulary and had written letters to Eric , but I had n't had anyone to talk to in English . |
| 12 | I had quite a good chat with Ray the other day , yes , eh . |
| 13 | I had quite a restless night , and did not really fancy the tea I was brought in the morning . |
| 14 | I did n't care much for the hens and geese but I had quite a high opinion of the pigs . |
| 15 | From my bedroom I had quite a clear view of the lake between two neighbouring houses . |
| 16 | you said you got quite a good rapport . |
| 17 | She found quite a rare one just as she reached the other edge of the wood . |
| 18 | She meant quite a different world . |
| 19 | She did quite a wholesale trade with pedlars who used to retail the goods door to door in the surrounding villages . |
| 20 | She had quite a long and happy chat with the ‘ witch ’ before she left for home . |
| 21 | However , on a Dow-Stoker Returners programme she discovered that she had quite a strong numerical ability , and decided that she would like to work in an accounts department . |
| 22 | If you look at her face she had quite a pointed nose |
| 23 | She had quite a large party staying in the village and so we just gathered in the kitchen and talked . |
| 24 | We became quite a regular there , as a matter of fact , nine consecutive mornings , including two Sundays , past the battlements , through gardens , then down the long loot-crammed passages , with glass cases full of baubles and beauties , and oblongs of oils and tapestries and embroidered maps reeling past our sight — to the waiting room . |
| 25 | Thank you Mr Chairman , I , I 've got a certain amount of experience in the subject because we got quite a big one in our village . |
| 26 | Gorbachev disclosed that " for the first time in recent years we laid quite a strong stress on what our economic relations should be like " , although he failed to provide details on the precise content of the talks . |
| 27 | We raised quite a good sum for the first time and that went to the Barnardos home . |
| 28 | This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation . |
| 29 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
| 30 | When when the strike first started , being in the summer months we needed quite a strong picket line to talk to the tourists , at various gates cos that was the main source of income at the quarry at that time . |