Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grandmother used to say that if it had been possible to take their personalities and shake them together a bit it would have been better for both of them . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , you can pay me just a bit ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd have thought your Brian could have found you somewhere a bit more comfortable , ’ interposed Mrs Harper , seeing her opportunity of introducing Brian to his disadvantage , ‘ he must know a few folk , it 's not only money that counts . … ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Maybe I can tell you more a bit later . |
| 5 | This book has given you quite a bit of practical advice — things to actually DO . |
| 6 | So do you find that does that help you quite a bit or |
| 7 | So once you get towards , take a clock in , make sure you pace yourself , and say at the end of that just put in a sort of sentence to make it look as if it 's been finished off Erm , what I usually do when I do an exam is I spend the first five minutes actually looking at the questions because initially you look for the ones that you 've revised and you see but there may be others there , there 're you can do in a slightly different way than the way that they first appear and that might help you quite a bit , although there are no trick questions in this . |
| 8 | Or are they perhaps a bit of both : a species of " braided " psycho-physical events with the two components inseparably interlinked with one another ? |
| 9 | On that first visit he told her quite a bit about himself . |
| 10 | It must have cost her quite a bit too , taking on a man who looks like I look , his fat shoulders and heavy head tensed over the spectacle of her lost or twisted sisters . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd worked with him about four years ago and helped him quite a bit . |
| 12 | I spoke to him quite a bit you know . |
| 13 | When he wins he turns up the next week as if nothing 's happened — and as if he has n't got a penny to his name , that 's the difference between Seve and others — what sets him apart a bit , I suppose . |
| 14 | There 's a lot of traffic here and it takes me quite a bit to cross all the roads to get to where I want . |
| 15 | The thought of inserting the diaphragm was worrying me quite a bit . |
| 16 | He 's had them quite a bit these last few days , they seem to come like that do n't they ? |
| 17 | Just keep it Well put it somewhere a bit safer than that . |
| 18 | I think had we managed to stick it together a bit longer , all fifty of us , and just prove to the management that we were n't gon na be starved back to work which seemed to be the way they wanted us to go back , you know because the board had you know escalated , you know I think had we managed to stick it together , certainly the result would 've been different . |
| 19 | They seem to have got it together a bit more . |
| 20 | I think he could improve it just a bit Jonathan |
| 21 | Rainbow admits that she 'd find it just a bit too cosy . |
| 22 | I ca n't remember , or was it just a bit of ground ? |
| 23 | Give it away a bit really did n't he ? |
| 24 | ‘ Dean 's like that , but he also a bit different to the majority of strikers because he 's also a grafter . ’ |
| 25 | So it maybe a bit different . |
| 26 | Which is good , because Cliff Gallup used it quite a bit , too , and this month and next , we 're going to try his solos from Gene Vincent 's Race With The Devil . |
| 27 | Most of them do it , he must have been at it quite a bit . |
| 28 | I was looking at it quite a bit cos I 'm sure Liza 'd whip it down . |
| 29 | Try spinning it forward a bit , might be |
| 30 | Well you did it actually a bit more than that — you 've referred to it about two or three times , but that 's immaterial . |