Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Eventually I got a bit fed up . |
| 2 | Then suddenly I got a bit more confidence , I felt better about my weight , my husband encouraged me as I started out in various career directions , and goals actually began to emerge . |
| 3 | thinking , Oh if only I spent a bit more time |
| 4 | So I had a bit of an up and a downer and er erm created quite a stir with erm Mr the Clerk of the Council Professor . |
| 5 | So I got a bit more interested . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been away so long I felt a bit like the new boy walking into the old school when I arrived at the studio for Carry On Columbus , ’ he admits . |
| 7 | Gingerly I squeezed a bit on my fingertip . |
| 8 | so she had a bit of a benny it was |
| 9 | But like , wi with the door Dave 's mum 's sister was rubbing it in to try and say to his nan that we were kicking her out and so she got a bit funny over it ! |
| 10 | So you had a bit of swamp just off the bottom of your garden |
| 11 | There are one or two old professors here left over from before the liberation ( apparently no profs have been appointed since ) and the professor of English , Prof. Chen Jia , is a charming though deaf old fellow who studied in the U.S.A. , and who used to write books on English literature before the Cultural Revolution put a stop to all that sort of thing — but even so he quoted a bit of Chaucer to me surreptitiously at the dinner table . |
| 12 | Hey right we spilt a bit on the table and it goes |
| 13 | Now we tried a bit of W a We actually gave you a worth of something last time , |
| 14 | Preston had been quite keen when he started the project but now he felt a bit shamefaced about it . |
| 15 | I ai n't got a lot out , well I got a bit out . |
| 16 | Oh yeah , well she went a bit |
| 17 | Only I just turned into grocery because you could n't get fruit , when you want Well you had a bit but not much . |
| 18 | but there was in the coal , well they looked a bit heavy on the wall |
| 19 | well it started a bit now it 's hurting . |
| 20 | but er , I do n't know how he got out yesterday and I 've never , never know him parked down the road , not at all , anyway we got , I got home and erm , I said to Bev you know , right go and phone Lesley see if she 's in and then I did a bit of housework and then the phone rang , ooh , we was aiming to go out at one and that must of been ten to one , and it was Liz |
| 21 | And there I went a bit I once saw a big pile of soil at the back you know . |
| 22 | And then we got a bit of plaster out of Uncle Alan 's medical bag |
| 23 | Then we had a bit of hassle off the bizzies . |
| 24 | And er then we had a bit , there was a victory organization of the schools then . |
| 25 | So then we had a bit of a wonder whether or not Christopher should go to school . |
| 26 | and er , then we had a bit , but er everything in the bottom drawer there , those are all playing alright |
| 27 | Sometimes he had a bit too much to drink but that is n't particularly unusual , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 28 | then it went a bit further and stop , and then we used to be walking up the , but that were it , half a crown |
| 29 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |