Example sentences of "a bit [prep] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm afraid we get a bit of vandalism here , and practical joking . |
| 2 | The physics department would tell you that chemistry 's only a bit of physics anyway . |
| 3 | you know if people wan na smoke a bit of pot then this is |
| 4 | And that a bit of meat there . |
| 5 | I sometimes like to think it was my eloquence , but the fact of the matter is that if I had got up on my hind legs and suggested a bit of Karaoke instead of the morning service , they would have leaped at it . |
| 6 | ‘ The moment you go from the rigid and valuable discipline of German bank and people to mixing it up with other disciplines , other views , other ‘ let's have a bit of inflation here and there ’ economies , you lose the very thing which leads you to want to join . ’ |
| 7 | They pointed out that economies prepared to allow ‘ a bit of inflation here and there ’ would include Britain , where the inflation rate is already one of the highest in the European Community and set to rise from 7.3 per cent to around 8 per cent later this week . |
| 8 | ‘ The moment you go from the rigid and valuable discipline of German bank and people to mixing it up with other disciplines , other views , other ‘ let's have a bit of inflation here and there ’ economies , you lose the very thing which leads you to want to join . ’ |
| 9 | They pointed out that economies prepared to allow ‘ a bit of inflation here and there ’ would include Britain , where the inflation rate is already one of the highest in the European Community and set to rise from 7.3 per cent to around 8 per cent later this week . |
| 10 | The stages were so enormous — about 60 feet across — that you had to poke out a bit of noise just to make yourself heard . |
| 11 | Best thing to do is do a bit of gardening then go in and bake the bread . |
| 12 | Maybe O Leary 's been getting the coaching right in that department , or maybe a bit of luck away has steadied their nerve , perhaps a bit of both . |
| 13 | Mind you , I think they 've had a bit of luck lately with a couple of wealthy chaps coming to live in the area and showing signs of interest . ’ |
| 14 | You 've had a bit of luck there , you might turn the other way next year , and you might find that you 've got an increased number of police retiring , and if you have , you 're going to find extreme pressure on the police budget , and you will see that there is the reductions that the Chief Constable told you he would have to make if that happened . |
| 15 | I 've thought it out Simes and now I 'm going to apply a bit of thought so it 'll keep that on , yeah ? |
| 16 | He put it away , a bit of hesitation there in the Oxford United defence , and it 's a goal to Spurs scored by Gary Mafford , in fact he 's put the ball in the net ; mistake from Andy Melville gave Spurs a corner , the ball was n't cleared , Gascoigne played a one two , was blocked by United , it came out to Mafford in the end and the goal 's in so Spurs take the lead after eight minutes . |
| 17 | A bit of fat never did a boy any harm , but we 're not going to pay for it as if it was lean . |
| 18 | Gets a bit of sea-gusting somewhat but a lot of good land on Holland . |
| 19 | Er , keep an eye on them , I 'll have a bit of replenishment here and then , erm , so he 's , until eight o'clock , and then you get everything pulled out . |
| 20 | Half a tick — I 've got a bit of bumph somewhere with the drill in case of air raids . ’ |
| 21 | It needs a bit of sellotape there does n't it ? |
| 22 | Okay then , well you do a bit of green then , I 'll tidy up and then we 'll carry on |
| 23 | A bit of excitement there . |
| 24 | At its most basic , it 's simply a matter of typing a bit of text here and there — each text string is treated as an object — and placing any graphics you might want to include . |
| 25 | you only got two carpets to sort out and a bit of lino rather than having a different one with this one and a different one for that one and then a different one for |
| 26 | It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little . |
| 27 | Just short of the Cherwell , however , the line of the road disappears from the 1-inch map , and to the west of the river for many miles it can be followed only as a continuous hedge-line , a field-path , and a bit of lane here and there . |
| 28 | or whatever , he 's a bit of fun anyway . |
| 29 | " I do n't see , " continued Mrs Maugham , " why you should n't have a bit of fun too . |
| 30 | She decided to have a bit of fun therefore — at their expense . |