Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He came across this seed in Cumbria and said : ‘ I wonder if we ought to invest in a bit ? ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's just you should speak up a bit more . ’ |
| 3 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 4 | He was never any trouble but we used to think perhaps he should go out a bit more , ’ say Brian Gedge . |
| 5 | " To make sense of it all , I must go back a bit in history , " he said . |
| 6 | But things should quieten down a bit now , that 's the end of the festival fuss . ’ |
| 7 | " I should sit there a bit longer , " one of the policemen said . |
| 8 | You should open up a bit more , share your problems . |
| 9 | I 'm counting the calories — I must slim down a bit . ’ |
| 10 | everywhere , things like that , so , well I 'll hang on a bit then |
| 11 | We might catch up a bit here . |
| 12 | " Yeah , maybe it 'll thin out a bit in there , now it 's getting late . " |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't doubt but what Alfred 'll rig up a bit of shelter . |
| 14 | Well I 'll chuck in a bit more , I 'll chuck in a little bit more pepper . |
| 15 | I might carry on a bit tomorrow . |
| 16 | ‘ But I might look in a bit later . |
| 17 | So I I 'll move back a bit . |
| 18 | Back into your document , and we 'll go up a bit . |
| 19 | I 'm hoping it , once it 's dried out that 'll go down a bit . |
| 20 | Anyway , I 'll go back a bit + explain how I made friends with Sarah . |
| 21 | might go on a bit Shut me gob . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought I might go upstream a bit and wash off some of this dirt , ’ she said evenly , fingering her hair distastefully . |
| 23 | Well think , if you concentrated on that a bit more instead of just doing it any where in the air you might get on a bit quicker . |
| 24 | ‘ Only I think they might get just a bit mixed up . ’ |
| 25 | We 'll drive around a bit . ’ |
| 26 | so erm , yesterday he had dinner round Joyce 's , he said he 'll come round a bit early and |
| 27 | So in other words it 's about an introduction an expansion and an end Now as I 've said tomorrow I 'll fill in a bit more detail on those so if you leave some some gaps there between those three sections . |
| 28 | And then we er we 'll talk in a bit more detail depending on which company you and I decide that er you know once we decide in fact that is for you . |
| 29 | Erm and , and I think in a way you y you know you may start the exploration and then that may lead you on to do something else , and , and you may spend actually a bit of time before you actually want to start the training . |
| 30 | In fact you could bring quite a bit of it in and put it in the fridge . |