Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only felt a bit off , ’ Forster admitted . |
| 2 | And I only had a bit though , with rice and some bread and some |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I just felt a bit faint . |
| 5 | " I 'm fine — I just felt a bit sleepy and chilly , that was why I went to bed so early . " |
| 6 | And she 'd been glumly aware that her quick retort , ‘ I 'm not — I just felt a bit cold for a moment , ’ had sounded remarkably unconvincing . |
| 7 | I just had a bit of my Sunday joint left over , ’ said Ianthe apologetically . |
| 8 | I had rehearsed all the routine for the South America job , then I just got a bit panicky ; the captain tried to talk me back into it . |
| 9 | I just got a bit tipsy , that 's all , and had to sleep in a spare bedroom at the house . ’ |
| 10 | I just got a bit erm mixed up in it . |
| 11 | I just lost a bit , oh there it is ! |
| 12 | The grants , the of the grants of course increased over the years and the main thing about erm awards of course was to assess them and this is something which erm , I always felt a bit self conscious about because , we had this erm very comprehensive form where parents and erm , oh individuals when they were the students themselves had to complete and give very precise details of income |
| 13 | I still got a bit of coffee left after I finish eating the doughnut , so I sip it slow to make it last , and look round the caff . |
| 14 | Nigel was in Japan for a conference , and she and I both needed a bit of company . |
| 15 | Working part of lunchtime had a slight advantage for me because it meant I now had a bit more time to load the container rail set . |
| 16 | For , as the reader , ( let's call him Ron ) , said in his letter : ‘ I really felt a bit of a fool . ’ |
| 17 | So what with Carole 's soft voice and that we did n't get a lot of and it seemed as though it was well like that , several times I went last year and I really got a bit cheesed off . |
| 18 | There was n't much else she could do without attracting attention , but I definitely expected a bit of the old argy-bargy before she let me get down to business . |
| 19 | yours truly did a bit of negotiation on that this week but more of that later maybe when we have er we have n't got any A O B's so while we 're on that subject |
| 20 | ‘ The wife of one of the guys who lives in Lowestoft had sent out a video of his son 's birthday party which also had a bit of my Help programme for Anglia TV on it . |
| 21 | We had various E coli vaccines which sometimes did a bit of good in these cases and I entered the pen hopefully . |
| 22 | To others she merely looked a bit different , and it lent her glamour , but to him , she was as different as anyone who was n't black . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh well , as you like — you just looked a bit whacked — off you go then . |
| 24 | She always took a bit of bread . |
| 25 | you always paid a bit e extra and he 'd er fetch your glasses and bring another one . |
| 26 | She deliberately got a bit drunk at dinner and when the lights were switched out let her head fall on to his shoulder . |
| 27 | Some children become institutionalised more quickly than others , and she still had a bit of fire left in her when I went to the orphanage for her . |
| 28 | She still felt a bit wobbly on her legs and she knew too that she could do with a holiday . |
| 29 | She probably felt a bit left out . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I mean , we only heard a bit . ’ |