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

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1 No just a wee bit off not invisible completely thank you .
2 Could you tell me a little bit about when you first moved to Harlow , because it interests me very much the fact , I did n't , I was n't aware that you lived in a , house that was
3 erm Professor Ron Dore is going to talk a bit about when education should stop and I suspect will be saying some of the things that you 've already hinted at , and then later on Professor Colin Lacey will be talking about some aspects of teachers and teaching and training of teachers , and I suspect he will have something to say about mobility of teachers and careers of teachers as , as well .
4 ‘ Only too true-that bit about not mixing with her family .
5 As well as the chatty bit about not forgetting the urine sample , both sides carry advertising .
6 Pretty little thing , but Philip must clue her in a bit about how to behave .
7 I learnt something about myself , I learnt a little bit about how members of the class view me , certain physical characteristics which are habits which I try to stop .
8 Er er only we the bit about how they both
9 Can you tell me a bit about how it 's changed and whether it is a good thing for Oxford Cheetahs .
10 I mean she 'll just gradually , because this bit between here and the stomach is the bit that most of the food gets digested in ,
11 and , you do n't see that wee bit through there which would take you into that bedroom there
12 So i did a little bit of here and there in Rhos-y-Bol , relieving different places after after retired really for a couple of years .
13 Some of the rapids were as difficult as those that had been our undoing on the first day , but tackled with a bit of newly learned skill they were challenging and exhilarating rather than terrifying .
14 Indeed , Mr Buckley was either too generous or too fool-hardy ( probably a bit of both ) for his own good , for he eventually went bankrupt .
15 A little bit of both is the almost certain outcome .
16 Bit of both oh right , that 's a good idea , see you Gone the wrong way a post box got a letter to post
17 No a bit of a bit of not worth mentioning !
18 It is a bit of probably irreplaceable shorthand .
19 Yeah but I should probably get a bit of today there , no problem .
20 ‘ I 've done a bit of just about everything there is , ’ Josie said , lifting sections of Lucy 's hair and watching to see how it fell .
21 He had a shaving kit like that , and he had his old , the old after shave lotion and that , and he will , well , picked us , we just fucking said I , I know what will do the trick a bit of fucking gone
22 Right , just to get a bit of where , where did Mao come from ?
23 Sorry to let you down like this , and miss the drinks and the lunch and the first bit of p.m .
24 Erm Nick has obviously talked about the er , the phasing of the estate erm , just to point out that the reason for it , perhaps seeming a bit of long drawn out er affair , it 's , it 's a , a minimum time as far as erm , all the people who have been negotiating feel it 's achievable in if we are to make sure that the estate does n't remain a building site as as a as a total entity fo , at any time , so this site here will not commence until this site is completed so that there will be some er , rest bite for the bungalow residents and of course , somewhere to park their cars in the in the interim .
25 ‘ The high school I was at was among the first to have a tiny in-school radio station , news , views , interviews and a touch of music , and consequently we 'd attracted quite a bit of somewhat condescending attention from real stations around town .
26 One bit of hitherto unknown information was that the Canadian Pacific Railway Press Office sometimes gave out passes for rail travel anywhere in Canada to bona fide newspaper reporters .
27 Virgin Atlantic 's Hot Air is a bit of all right .
28 " A bit of all right . "
29 He watched the television at night , all night , making remarks like ‘ That 's a bit of all right ’ at the girls , or ‘ Kill him ’ to the wrestlers .
30 We could ‘ ave tea at Ma 's , and then go up West in the evenin' fer a bit of all right . ’
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