Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no reference to the key educational issue in the Queen 's speech , and Michael Stewart ( the new Secretary of State ) was obviously playing for time : ‘ I would rather wait a bit for a good comprehensive system than try to push a sham version in its place . ’ |
| 2 | We carry on walking a bit . |
| 3 | ‘ I think you 'd better stay a bit longer and Mary and I will take you home . ’ |
| 4 | A pixel addressable printer can obviously reproduce a bit mapped image , and page description formats have developed to allow this . |
| 5 | perhaps make a bit more |
| 6 | Better to drive a bit farther , down in to lower Normandy and the beautiful Vallée d'Auge , past old Norman farms and manors , through country thick with apple trees , and pastures so opulent and green that unless you have seen some of the raw , rebuilt little towns , it is hard to believe in the terrible devastation of only fifteen years ago . |
| 7 | obviously using a bit of sense |
| 8 | ‘ The weir will last a lifetime , ’ Nigel said , ‘ and the millpond only needs a bit of clearing out . ’ |
| 9 | I only caught a bit of it but he said that he turned up for training and was surprised to be called in and told about the deal . |
| 10 | He rejected the argument that keeping the facility for steers in Barnard Castle would be costly , saying it only involved a bit of paperwork by one of the officials at the mart . |
| 11 | Being by Sharpen Up , a proven ‘ sire of sires ’ , Sure Sharp would only need a bit more Pattern success to earn himself a place at stud . |
| 12 | ‘ After all , I only want a bit of peace and quiet and I think I am entitled to that ! ’ |
| 13 | I had to admit that the young men leaving that room all looked a bit shattered and one almost reeled out , holding his mouth with both hands . |
| 14 | In a year or two he should have a decent sized flock — of course he 's not normally down here this early , he only has a bit of a stable down here that he rents for the summer along with his few acres of grass and his bit of land for cultivation . |
| 15 | Iced only on top , so looks a bit bare without its gold band . |
| 16 | The reduction of the horse 's anxiety through movement and calm handling , not only solved the bit problem for that day but also prevented the horse from establishing an undesirable form of behaviour to present on other occasions when it felt anxious . |
| 17 | I 've only got a bit of French and German so I can help you with the essay if you like . |
| 18 | Only going a bit , I 'm not quite sure actually . |
| 19 | No it 's not that I was just getting together to play a bit of recording stuff . |
| 20 | But it was one , one of them anyway and hers was over three hundred so save a bit . |
| 21 | I think perhaps when they open up fully , the flowers , it 'll er perhaps balance a bit better . |
| 22 | ‘ He had another chance but perhaps got a bit too tight on the goalkeeper with that one . ’ |
| 23 | Now if anyone asks if you feel for any sense that perhaps some of these routines have perhaps got a bit of become inappropriate in some way , perhaps because you 're teaching a different type of child , or perhaps because you 've got rather different educational aims , they 've changed for some reason , then it 's like asking someone to go back to being a novice again in some senses to change . |
| 24 | This was all getting a bit like the Paul Daniels show . |
| 25 | Perhaps getting a bit tired . |
| 26 | I should replace it , but usually it only takes a bit of tinkering to get it going again . |
| 27 | Below that , it sounds more like a traditional diesel , and it does lack response at times , but it only takes a bit of getting used to . |
| 28 | It 's safe enough to put a bit of speed on from here . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I mean , we only heard a bit . ’ |
| 30 | I was only having a bit of fun . ’ |