Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] quite a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has received quite an unpleasant shock . ’ |
| 2 | And it 's reputation has travelled or it it 's false reputation has travelled quite a long way . |
| 3 | er this rate is fixed and can only be changed by agreement with Brussels er and as we 've seen in the last few years , our normal currency exchange rate has fluctuated quite a lot er and in fact has er become fairly weak , but the green pound has stayed the same so there 's quite a difference between our exchange rate and the green rate . |
| 4 | ‘ That river has risen quite a bit since earlier on , ’ murmured Charlie . |
| 5 | He apparently has done quite a lot of good work in the past . |
| 6 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 7 | Jesus has been travelling around and has got quite a reputation from his preaching and healing exploits . |
| 8 | He added : ‘ My horse has got quite a high cruising speed and , even if we stay in the middle , he is more than capable of galloping his way back into the reckoning . ’ |
| 9 | That year nine student has got quite a lot to say , has written a very nice letter of complaint to god , bending god 's ear , say just one minute god . |
| 10 | And I mean the actual the U K market those in those areas is quite developed and has got quite a reputation but obviously it has got to be able to develop develop and adapt accordingly over time . |
| 11 | I think this has got quite a bit of vodka in it . ’ |
| 12 | Chris has got quite a lot of , he 's got Old Kent Road and Whitechapel Road . |
| 13 | However , the evidence also suggests that information spillovers are more important in research than in development , and that a firm has to do quite a lot of its own R&D , if it is to be able to absorb information spillovers effectively . |
| 14 | I believe that I will always remember it , even though it was quite a few years ago and even though it has recurred quite a few times since . |
| 15 | Basically I got a fax from him in LA yesterday , and apparently his daughter is a great fan of yours and Basil 's … and he too has become quite a fan . |
| 16 | Surprisingly , the programmers managed to cram all the action into a single load ; this has become quite a rarity these days , particularly where tie-ins are concerned . |
| 17 | Over the years the exchange of engines between the 15″ gauge railways in England has become quite a feature of the little railway scene . |
| 18 | The anthropological fieldworker who eventually returns to the social setting of his homeland usually finds that it has become quite a different place . |
| 19 | Pam Dixon , a teacher at Alsop High , said Tommy has become quite a celebrity with his school pals . |
| 20 | The academic , intellectual types also have a cultural background and are interested in aspects of the arts , and erm we are very fortunate , I think , also in that people are able to give more time than perhaps business people , and so a number of the members of the committee are university people and we are able to use the Gardner Arts Centre , which has become quite an exciting area , in that it 's open to experimental production , so therefore we attract a lot of the London critics . |
| 21 | Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner . |
| 22 | He has converted quite a few to Utopianism . |
| 23 | ‘ It has taken quite a large chunk out of our lives , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Your life has taken quite a different turn since then . ’ |
| 25 | This Committee has rejected quite a large proportion of the officers proposed statements . |
| 26 | Certainly over the last quarter of a century it has changed quite a lot . |
| 27 | In America where initially it was done one state after another , it actually has changed quite a lot and erm the developments have been very interesting , partly because they 've been in the courts rather than in Congress . |
| 28 | Of course , Madame Duvalle will come over every month to see that I 'm doing things the right way and Monsieur Félix intends to spend quite a lot of time in London . |
| 29 | She 's lonely and she plied me with tea and scones and the rest , and gave me information about her neighbours , whom she seems to like quite a bit . |
| 30 | And er then it seems to keep quite a long time if er if you do that . |