Example sentences of "bit [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 , |
| 2 | and , you do n't see that wee bit through there which would take you into that bedroom there |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A little bit of both is the almost certain outcome . |
| 7 | Bit of both oh right , that 's a good idea , see you Gone the wrong way a post box got a letter to post |
| 8 | It is a bit of probably irreplaceable shorthand . |
| 9 | Yeah but I should probably get a bit of today there , no problem . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Sorry to let you down like this , and miss the drinks and the lunch and the first bit of p.m . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Virgin Atlantic 's Hot Air is a bit of all right . |
| 17 | " A bit of all right . " |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We could ‘ ave tea at Ma 's , and then go up West in the evenin' fer a bit of all right . ’ |
| 20 | And she closed one eye in a grotesque wink , leaving Sally-Anne to guess what the bit of all right was — a visit to a music hall or a theatre , she assumed — wrongly , for she still had a lot to learn about the ways of the aliens among whom she lived . |
| 21 | She 's a bit of all right . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Good first half , ’ Bernie licked Mansfield Bitter from his moustache , ‘ that blonde 's a bit of all right . |
| 23 | So that 's not good news Erm , if I can show the way of overcoming that problem , how , would you be interested , and you say , that problem 's always been difficult for me , you know what can I say then , ca n't say , you ready to train yourself to think , you know , physically you a little bit of actually , putting yourself in their world . |
| 24 | It went 200 yards , bit of left-to-right , not a brilliant shot . |
| 25 | She is always turning from what has been offered her to say with a demure little sigh and smile , ‘ Oh , please , please … all I want is a cup of tea , weak but not too weak , and the teeniest weeniest bit of really crisp toast . ’ |
| 26 | Was her brother to do it , Jan , he does a bit of really . |
| 27 | Bit like here . |
| 28 | All you can do is leave it , ge take the out that one you know , like a and that , put that over the e end so it ; s a nice warm bit like here , just enough to see . |
| 29 | I shall put him a bit in tomorrow though . |
| 30 | and I do n't know whether I 've stretched a wee bit in here . . |