Example sentences of "a bit [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But he 's improved a bit since then ? ’ |
| 2 | ( It has gone up a bit since then , but not back to the post-1945 level . ) |
| 3 | Things seemed to have changed quite a bit since Johnny 's time . |
| 4 | So it 's quite a long while ago and I 've travelled round quite a bit since then . |
| 5 | He 's been in the wars a bit since his racing career . |
| 6 | Nevertheless undaunted , since things have moved on a bit since nineteen eighty seven , I suppose what I 'm looking for is some guidance as to the way in which policy I twelve has operated in practice . |
| 7 | Well I 'm glad to say the boar have cleaned up a bit since wallowing in the glorious mud of Abberley . |
| 8 | Now , let's think a bit about this mud . ’ |
| 9 | She grumbles a bit about me waking her up , but I do n't think she minds all that much . |
| 10 | When I 'm walking to the shop I think a bit about moving and that . |
| 11 | There 's a telephone on the wall just by my table and I think for a bit about who I 'd like to phone . |
| 12 | I think for a bit about going to ask him how I get home but I do n't want to ask him in case he tells Mr Jackson . |
| 13 | When he 's gone , I think for a bit about Scotland . |
| 14 | The passage , however , included a bit about small men being unable to accomplish great things . |
| 15 | McLeish , warmed by the fact that she had taken the trouble to find out a bit about him , confirmed he had been at Reading University and had worked as a young sergeant in the Flying Squad . |
| 16 | ‘ Groups like yours are a bit outside my experience , ’ he confided , ‘ and I need to understand a bit about what Miss Morgan did for a living . |
| 17 | Moran knows a bit about markets : he has a personal fortune estimated at £150 million , and he has just announced that he intends to spend £25 million converting a remnant of medieval London into a sumptuous family home . |
| 18 | The company also insisted that he learnt a bit about the business he would soon be running , sending him to work in the busy Birmingham store for a month . |
| 19 | I was panicking a bit about a week before the sale as stuff was not coming in very quickly but thanks to Nursery Needs and all those who did last minute searches we had a good amount of stuff to sell in the end . |
| 20 | ‘ I may not like London over much but I do know a bit about the place and one thing I know is that it 's big , bloody big . |
| 21 | ‘ Murder , ’ he said , in the tones of someone who knew a bit about the subject , ‘ is something we try and classify . |
| 22 | Each interview was with a single-sex group of girls or boys , and I began by asking them to choose their favourite character or person on TV and tell me a bit about them . |
| 23 | We had been talking on the National Consumer Council a bit about the lack of accountability in broadcasting , and I had also , as part of my Advisory Council work , directed and written up the first major study about adults , educational experience and needs — two and a half thousand interviews all over England and Wales . |
| 24 | Tom Regan having said a bit about that , I will not say too much more . |
| 25 | Anyone who had had that knew a bit about the Treasury and knew a little bit about fighting back and working round them and all the rest of it and of giving orders direct to the Chancellor and saying , ‘ Look , this is what we must have ’ , and then getting the Cabinet to back it , so that it was harder for the Treasury to say ‘ No . ’ |
| 26 | It also means knowing a bit about ourselves , so that old habits , opinions and attitudes do n't get in the way . |
| 27 | The immediate outcome was that I now had someone to take me around , and I used to brag a bit about ‘ my ’ Corporal . |
| 28 | J. decided he wanted a photograph of me , and although I did tease him a bit about this — what did he want a photograph of me for when I was there in front of him most of the time ? — at his insistence I finally went and had it done . |
| 29 | BACK to 1979 , when I carried on a bit about superstitions about earwigs , the whole thing being started up by a film about a man driven off his trolley by one of the insects boring into his brain , shouts of ‘ rubbish ’ at the screen did no good . |
| 30 | My assistant , Donald , is actually an ex-art student friend of mine so he knows quite a bit about painting . |