Example sentences of "[conj] there [was/were] [art] bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once you had been visited by the sergeant , you 'd go for a scrounge , somewhere you could get a smoke — a bakery where there was a bit of heat in the winter-time . |
| 2 | Although conditions were a little better in that there was a bit of breeze at times during the night , the moon had grown to a full half rather than the quarter it had been . |
| 3 | Secord 's outfit , in fact , purchased the Bible , and there was a bit of a quiz round the office ( ’ ask the secretary ’ ) to find a fitting inscription for it . |
| 4 | Mrs Beckett , MP for Derby South , added : ‘ I was just surprised by what was happening and there was a bit of a scuffle . |
| 5 | ‘ That incident was where we had a free-kick on our half-way line and he was just marking me tight , and there was a bit of bantering going on between us . |
| 6 | Four hasty pints before the pub closed at two saw Charles through lunch , and there was a bit of wine too . |
| 7 | I personally do n't know a lot about it apart from the fact that Arthur Scargill went up there and there was a bit of excitement . |
| 8 | But it made the national press because Arthur was up there and there was a bit of shouting and scuffling . |
| 9 | The cab crashed down on to the street and there was a bit of a hush . |
| 10 | Onto today then and there was a bit of cloud around earlier on , concentrated in the north and west . |
| 11 | And there was a bit of there 's a bit of floor in front of it . |
| 12 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 13 | Went back up to the ward cos there was no bit . |
| 14 | Alternatively , he could always have chatted up one of the drivers of Middleton & Co. 's waggon , asking if there was a bit of spare room for an extra body when they left for the King 's Arms in Holborn on a Sunday evening or a Monday morning . |
| 15 | If there was a bit of low in the land , he had to let his plough bite in a little deeper at this spot to bring his furrows up level . |
| 16 | mm , but there was a bit er , you know where the legs moved ? |
| 17 | Because there was a bit of a drought on and it filled in , like , for the smack … . |
| 18 | because there was a bit of work to be done |
| 19 | The Pilot Survey showed some monitoring , further standardisation of the equipment was essential , mainly though , I 'm going to make sure all schools have got the same pipes and connector and I 'm going to give them some solutions to test because there was a bit of variation between schools , and there will be variation geographically , so I want to be able to have a measure of any error that will be involved as well . |
| 20 | even though there was a bit of grey in it , it was the , really the brown that predominated it , I said it , it , the grey suite would n't go with it |