Example sentences of "it was quite a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was quite a fretful race for me in many ways . ’ |
| 2 | Gradually it began to dawn on me that while in the celluloid world all things were possible , in the other world it was quite a different story . |
| 3 | It was quite a clever move on his part . |
| 4 | It was quite a car and who has n't dreamed of being a repo man ? |
| 5 | It was quite a good example of lobbying , in fact . |
| 6 | It was quite a good one ; he must remember to use it himself . |
| 7 | It was quite a respectable place , occupied mainly by blacks , and transients , and there was the unmistakable sweet smell of marijuana in the elevator . |
| 8 | It was quite a shock to everyone when it was known that Mr Wilson had died ; he who had always seemed so solid and enduring . |
| 9 | We all went to see them once ; it was quite a nice little place , in a village truly rural . |
| 10 | It was quite a long way , and coming home she let the pony trot while she ran beside me . |
| 11 | It was quite a long kiss , very soft and smooth without obvious passion . |
| 12 | We could see it was n't gold , mind you , but it was quite a thing , all the same . |
| 13 | In the Portuguese elections of 1984 , where I was an adviser , it was quite a problem — it had always been done from the second floor — so I suggested the flatbed truck concept that had been so successful in Malta . |
| 14 | It was quite a shock ! |
| 15 | It was quite a heavy blow , quite out of the blue — yet I enjoyed it ! ’ |
| 16 | It was quite a revelation . |
| 17 | ‘ It was quite a small group , ’ he said . |
| 18 | It was quite a sight to see the poor ladies who accompanied her , some of them quite stout , being pushed from behind or dragged from the front over these obstacles while the Empress laughed like a child to see their stricken faces and the piteous condition of their coiffures . |
| 19 | It was quite a different situation when a grandchild came into the grandparent 's home through the death or desertion of one or both parents . |
| 20 | I do n't know why I should be ; it was quite a reasonable assumption and I ca n't begin to imagine how anyone would dare to whip two manuscripts like that out of sight — I 'd never have the nerve . |
| 21 | Certainly , it was quite a strenuous walk — though I can say it failed to cause me any real difficulty — the path rising in zigzags up the hillside for a hundred yards or so . |
| 22 | Facing opposition from the City , from English Heritage and all the conservation groups , amenity organizations and civic societies in the country , as well as hundreds of people who work in the City , it was quite a shock when a different Environment Secretary , Nicholas Ridley , agreeing with his inspector , granted permission for demolition and redevelopment . |
| 23 | It was quite a shock , and I thought how lucky I had been never to get into a violent argument with him while he was carrying the clubs . ’ |
| 24 | It was quite a fine working model used in the eighteenth century by Sir Henry — a great-great-grandfather of the present Sir Henry . |
| 25 | And so , from 1958 onwards , these characters became my dolls , and their way , of life and the houses they inhabited became so real to me that it was quite a shock when I occasionally returned to the place which had started it all , Wood Green , near Witney . |
| 26 | It was quite a shock to learn that the Elsie found at the bottom of Loch Craig was not a twenty-six-year-old woman but a woman in her late fifties or early sixties . |
| 27 | Unfortunately the apartment was at the very top and it was quite a struggle to drag Maidstone up the eight or ten flights of stairs . |
| 28 | It is a method that is nearly always used there days but at the time it was quite a new technique , certainly for a band like The Wedding Present . |
| 29 | For example , it was quite a story in December 1985 when Mrs Thatcher briefly appeared to have allowed Michael Heseltine , Secretary of State for Defence , to campaign publicly against the Cabinet 's position that the Westland helicopter company could do a deal with the American firm Sikorsky if its shareholders so wished . |
| 30 | It was quite a small type , rarely weighing as much as 320kg , with short , thin legs , a proportionately large body , ridged backbone , big-bellied ( the Red Poll still has a good rumen capacity for digesting quantities of low-grade roughage ) , rather plain and very lean , with a thin ‘ snake ’ head , always polled , and a large baggy udder with prominent milk veins . |