Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [art] bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Double positives are taken away making it negative and your H positives go in here , making it positive , so you get a you get a little a little potential difference , a little difference in voltage , which gives a Any any two metals if you put them together and make them a bit damp , or even if you do n't make them damp , you usually get a little a tiny voltage . |
| 2 | Right , depends what the and quite honestly , if you bring these down and make them a bit more romantic |
| 3 | As I say all these poem 's are very dense and erm if I get round to , to completing them they 'll probably have at least another verse , certainly extra words and rhymes , that open it out and make it a bit more plausible Ours in the night , no I 've got it wrong , sorry , I 've moved on and I should n't 've done |
| 4 | ‘ What you need to do , Leith , is to try and deglamorise yourself a bit . ’ |
| 5 | It was more a family , really , than a deputation , excluding the Bishop , of course : Aethelric of Durham , whom the monks had wanted to disown after that business eight years ago , until he had had to go to Siward and slip him a bit of St Cuthbert 's best to get him reinstated . |
| 6 | Er but anyway er an and the address , full address was you see so a about a week I , I , I wrote , you know , to her and told her a bit about myself and er , you know , about , about seeing the programme etcetera and erm I got a letter did I get a letter back ? |
| 7 | Then you start at half past four I 'll go round and give them a bit of tea , all of them , you see , see if they 've eat , those that 's eat up horses eat up , give them a bit of tea and then the lads start on them and they dress them over till they sa well , well say , we give them till six o'clock wa to do two horses . |
| 8 | I had the strong impression he might be tempted to come back and give us a bit more front-line colour from the other side of the grave . |
| 9 | Well , what the government has said today is that they 're giving us some money to help us to take it and boost it a bit further and we 're very pleased to see that . |
| 10 | With her here to keep la Principessa happy , he could slip the leash and enjoy himself a bit — and if he could seduce her into his bed in between times , so much the better . |
| 11 | Can I just say colleagues before you , you second the motion , there is this hubbub again that 's growing , I mean it seems to go down and I do n't know perhaps it 's like the tide but can we try and keep it a bit lower , especially when colleagues are trying to make a speech from the rostrum . |
| 12 | It simply means thinking a little about your diet and daily routine , and improving it a bit at a time . |
| 13 | That 'll be in there and give him a bit of encouragement . |
| 14 | See she , she came around cos erm I 've been up to her , her friends place to and give him a bit of a telling off like and that and erm she came to John 's house and I said , why are calling ? |
| 15 | in village , not far up us and er I were getting round me mum and pulling on her skirts and and this old woman says , get him fed Frances , he wants a bit of pap , get him , get him picked up and give him a bit of pap and that 'll shut him up |
| 16 | Come up and give yourself a bit of a wash and we 'll put it on . |
| 17 | Well alright , but can you , can you not get rid of a couple of the boxes and what 's this thing there ? well why do n't you tip it up the other way and give yourself a bit more room , tomorrow Deana what 's that , your dictionary ? |
| 18 | Some folk in the village said it was a public disgrace that a maid like Martha Pascoe should be bartered for with barrels of fish , but most saw the whole affair as a great joke , because when all was said and done , the lass was unlikely to marry Sam or Harry or anyone else against her will , and if she could use their ardour to win a few more stone of pilchards and thereby swell the village purse and give everyone a bit of harmless fun , then more power to her elbow . |
| 19 | Each interview was with a single-sex group of girls or boys , and I began by asking them to choose their favourite character or person on TV and tell me a bit about them . |
| 20 | And they 've given her something low in glucose and that you know to kind of try and stabilize it a bit . |
| 21 | And loved it every bit as much as they adored their riverside home . |
| 22 | But right now , you can just trot along and leave me a bit of peace to get some kip while I got the chance . |
| 23 | The Hays were also Scottish , but they were from Edinburgh and thought themselves a bit superior to most of their neighbours . |
| 24 | He picked up the envelope and gave it a bit of a shake . |
| 25 | But anyway , we finished the ‘ Space Oddity ’ album and promoted it a bit . |
| 26 | You could , of course , get out your trusty copy of PKZIP and shrink it a bit , then flip it onto a disk , then copy it onto your desktop , then unzip it , then delete the ZIP file . |
| 27 | With techno enjoying a second coming in Leeds and banging out of every other shop in the renovated arcades on Saturdays , some people were getting home after a day 's shopping and fancying something a bit different . |
| 28 | And she even managed to get us er somebody who would come and coach us a bit . |
| 29 | I shall grow it down into a bob and have it a bit long steppy bit at the back and keep growing it . |
| 30 | And wiggle it a bit . |