Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was your idea of erm entrances that got me a bit scared . |
| 2 | So this is , what got me a bit suspicious right , well I speaking to her and all and I said , well you know , this is it and , you know she said she knows George is , is meant to be coming up and I said look and I says and I 'm gon na go down onto the floor here , and just as I was to go onto the floor there was a phone call right , and it was Alice . |
| 3 | But apparently they know that I 'm really forward which is absolute , actually not very true cos Ed said that I was quite forward and he , I was only forward with him because the person I got off with just before him was bloody forward and it made me a bit forward but I calmed down after that , you know ? |
| 4 | My wide feet found them a bit tight , but I swapped the footbeds for the Sanmarco ones , which are much thinner , and both pairs then fitted me better — a leaf taken from Merrell 's book . |
| 5 | That , I believe , was because we moved him a bit upmarket in his packaging , and gave him more thriller-style covers . |
| 6 | I found it a bit disturbing sometimes but I just had to accept it . |
| 7 | Contains lots of currants , but testers found it a bit dry . |
| 8 | I found it a bit stilted , but Ted thought it warm . |
| 9 | I found it a bit too hypnotic for comfort . |
| 10 | I found it a bit odd that a sensible girl should write about them in that — that romantic way . ’ |
| 11 | Having read what the Queen 's Speech says on matters of foreign policy , I must say that I found it a bit of a mish-mash . |
| 12 | ‘ My parents only told me a bit about them , ’ said Creggan , ‘ and I only saw one once when a pair came close to my homesite and my mother attacked them . |
| 13 | ‘ But unfortunately for him when he told me a bit about what was on the disk I had a blinding flash of inspiration . ’ |
| 14 | The only significant difference between Lucy and a statue was that Lucy had pubic hair ; this caused them a bit of a surprise at first . |
| 15 | yeah and er , the , the programme condemned him a bit , basically he he did n't , there was , there was , he did n't seemed to take in a lo , a whole lot evidence from either side , you know , he did , he did , he did n't seemed to handle the case very well , it was sort of more like it just get it over with quickly and forget it sort of thing . |
| 16 | Slowly , disconnectedly , prompted by him , I told him a bit about Alison ; remembering his frankness the night before , produced some of my own . |
| 17 | Er but anyway er an and the address , full address was you see so a about a week I , I , I wrote , you know , to her and told her a bit about myself and er , you know , about , about seeing the programme etcetera and erm I got a letter did I get a letter back ? |
| 18 | Took up some good positions , had one half chance which the keeper did well to hold , and then chased after a long ball , outrun 2 defenders , hit it first time from 25 yards or so — straight into the bottom right corner , well the keeper got a slight touch which lifted it a bit higher but you get the idea . |
| 19 | U-boat alley was the gap in mid-Atlantic where they did n't have air cover from Britain or Canada , but Preston always imagined it a bit like the alley at the back of their houses with a U-boat at each end firing torpedoes at Grandad as he hopped and scuttled down it on his way to the Turk 's Head . |
| 20 | I , I forgotten that it was Justine , I , it just threw me a bit that erm , erm , Nick asked me to let you know that we were here and that we 'd received the chairs . |
| 21 | That scared me a bit , so I had to stop dealing . |
| 22 | This troubled them a bit because they were impatient to learn . |
| 23 | She would n't say even then but I plagued her a bit till she could n't keep it to herself any longer . |
| 24 | ‘ She said , ‘ I showed him a bit of leg and he came running . ’ |
| 25 | I think one thing that blindfolded us a bit was the fact that the river was in spate at the time and if she had fallen in she 'd have been washed out to sea . |
| 26 | As a group I mean the other thing that surprised me a bit , I , I spoke to Ken yesterday and said , how did you receive ? |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd had a flop , which unnerved me a bit . |
| 28 | But then we developed it a bit further like we did with negative numbers . |
| 29 | Er it spoilt it a bit when that guy in the glasses came on half way through . |
| 30 | There were things that you said that I only half understood ; things that startled me sometimes ; shocked me a bit , if you like . |