Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years ago I had a class of very bright children and they did some really good projects , they were n't silly projects where they just scribble a bit an and draw some rubbish the they really worked and I saw to it that they produced really good work |
| 2 | I think they have a cheek to complain about people writing other people 's press releases when they ca n't even write their own speeches , they just take a bit of their leaders and claim it as their own . |
| 3 | So why , why , why ca n't you just erm why ca n't they just take a bit off everybody in that case and , and inflict the same degree ? |
| 4 | County were battered and bruised , but they still had a bit of bounce left and came back with a goal from Dean Thomas which sent Nicky Hammond the wrong way , only because it took a deflection . |
| 5 | I thought coming forward Leeds played brill on saturday but they still looked a bit lazy and complacent at the back ( esp . |
| 6 | They fitted but they still looked a bit baggy . |
| 7 | They still care a bit though . |
| 8 | You go over to May 's , they always have a bit of a carry-on on New Year 's Eve , and I 'll keep awake and see to Emma . ’ |
| 9 | So they , th , you , you have a choice of hips , and they also have a bit of saw , a bit of sawing kit and screw in , you know , have delicate screws . |
| 10 | But he said he reckoned they probably shot a bit wide , and anyway the officers would see that they tried , and it was better to be shot by the other side rather than your own . |
| 11 | Too often , friends and colleagues react to the information that someone is suffering from depression either by agreeing that they often feel a bit down themselves but manage to cope , or else by treating the person as if he or she were suffering from mental disease . |
| 12 | The growth spurt in boys and girls often begins with the hands and feet , which is why they sometimes look a bit clumsy and act rather awkwardly , until the rest of the body catches up . |
| 13 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |