Example sentences of "[be] [prep] quite [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we 've been through quite a lot of those and it 's it , the case does n't really stack up . |
| 2 | I 've been through quite a lot . |
| 3 | I could n't explain that I would have had to leave in a month or so anyway — but I pointed out that in fact I was n't well , had n't been for quite a while whatever he chose to think , and that a rest would do me good . |
| 4 | Now I do n't know what they were worth and she was saying they must have been worth quite a bit cos they 're big detached solid houses are n't they ? |
| 5 | They 're worth quite a b* of money . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ She takes her golf very seriously ; she told me her clubs are a matched set and I imagine they 're worth quite a lot of money . |
| 7 | I mean I 've been in quite a bad mood this week actually but it 's really , like you know standing up for myself cos anyone that 's rude to me now gets it right back in their face . |
| 8 | But the trend in the motor industry at large has been in quite the opposite direction to the Chapman philosophy ; cars have not become lighter over the years but noticeably heavier and more complex . |
| 9 | But you are in quite a good position now . |
| 10 | We are in quite a mess to say the least . ’ |
| 11 | So I think that er we are in quite a strong position . |
| 12 | They must be worth quite a bit — in America . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You 're famous all over the Far East , so a story about how you kept a secret concubine in Taipei should be worth quite a bit . ’ |
| 14 | So you 'll be worth quite a bit dead ? |
| 15 | No , it was a piece I am very fond of and it happened to be in quite a few programmes at that time . |
| 16 | Shearer 's injury might not be on quite the same scale , but it will keep him out of qualifiers in Turkey next month , the Netherlands at home in April and the end-of-season double away to Poland on 29 May and Norway four days later . |
| 17 | He had already been to quite a number of shows where he competed in halter classes ; but this wag the first occasion where he was ridden in a saddle class . |
| 18 | Probably that 's worth quite a lot of money is n't it ? |
| 19 | Ted 's killing is of quite a different nature . |
| 20 | In a block of premises each tenant can normally be regarded as consenting to the presence of water on the premises if the supply is of the usual character , but not if it is of quite an unusual kind , or defective or dangerous , unless he actually knows of that . |
| 21 | ‘ Georgina 's in quite a state , underneath the armour-plated shell . |
| 22 | Therefore a fourteen-year-old teenage mother who is at school is in quite a different situation from a nineteen-year-old who may be working and married , and her pregnancy is usually viewed quite differently too . |
| 23 | Is there anything else that I can do for her cos she says she is in quite a lot of discomfort at the moment . |
| 24 | ‘ Equally I believe that you should stop using smacking as a way of punishing a child when that child is big enough to hit you back — and that 's at quite an early age . |
| 25 | Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan . |
| 26 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |
| 27 | The racing was of quite a high standard . |
| 28 | ‘ I know , but she phoned for her results — she was surprised to get me , she seemed to have hoped you 'd be waiting by the phone — and when I told them you 'd gone , her mother took the phone and was in quite a tizz and had a word with Mr Fry and then said they 'd get the next plane home . |
| 29 | Even this was in quite a congested area and from 25 October 1944 , the cars carried on , out of service to the Coombe Road crossover and reversed there . |
| 30 | While she — she was in quite a bargaining position . |