Example sentences of "bit [prep] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 You 've got a bit of colour back now .
2 There was no violation of the code because they had a bit of fun out there on the field .
3 I followed the line of the shadow along the sand , over the rocks , and found myself looking at little Paul , splashing happily about in a pool , slapping the water with a great flat bit of wood almost as big as he was .
4 Then there is the decay of the tree which sometimes holds on to a little bit of life well past when it should die completely .
5 You may occasionally find you drop quite a bit of weight fairly suddenly .
6 never went to me spare bit of paper probably eventually but he had n't got time for that .
7 I do n't see a need to have it repeated on a separate bit of paper anywhere else .
8 If one person 's on duty , you would a situation where really that was a bit of risk quite often , and er , it 's not an acceptable thing but er , I totally agree we need to agree very carefully if one 's wise to whether the initial staffing is adequate or whether it is case a of people not having
9 What about Buckley North Wales , now there 's a bit of class up there you know , in those hills !
10 Why have they put a little bit of fence just there ?
11 you 're not to climb on this gate , look there 's a little tiny bit of rust there already
12 There 's got to be a bit of irony somewhere there .
13 ‘ You could tell there was a bit of tension out there , among the players and the supporters . ’
14 Try to get it before Christmas , because I 've got a bit of time off then , and I 'll help you settle in . ’
15 Erm and it 'll take us a little bit of touch actually now the computer evaluated .
16 But er yeah , it 's , it 's I find it loses er , a little bit of interest fairly quickly erm because it 's , the main subject , the chap jumping down , I think the road was nicely shown , but perhaps if you could have just had a , a longer lens just to make it a bit more important in the picture .
17 I can see a bit of blue up there .
18 Do you know , I went in there right and the majority of people never took no blind bit of notice then suddenly one person walked through the door , you know , he 's always playing next to me and he sits down , puts his trumpet there , gets his trumpet on ya , sits there , turns round and the next thing he were laying on the floor going
19 Er Nicola had a baby , she suffered from postnatal depression and er can I ask for a bit of hush there please , Nicola suffered from postnatal depression and she took Prozac .
20 cause a bit of trouble down there but I must say we do n't have it here now .
21 You will find that this can not be pulled out in error ( who has not picked a bit of wool out only to find that it was the marker ! ) and it can either be pulled up tight later as a permanent marker or pulled out and used again .
22 Onto today then and there was a bit of cloud around earlier on , concentrated in the north and west .
23 Tasted a bit like oxtail only much redder .
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