Example sentences of "bit [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reggane was forty miles away , with a bit of sand just before it , but nothing serious . |
| 2 | Mind you , I think they 've had a bit of luck lately with a couple of wealthy chaps coming to live in the area and showing signs of interest . ’ |
| 3 | Oh , yes those horses come in horse boxes them days bit of luck instead of trains . |
| 4 | I saw him play last week against Sunderland reserves , he had another magnificent game , his passing was absolutely immaculate — got a good goal , hit a great volley that for another goal ; he can just pass the ball , and I think that 's what we 've lacked a little bit of , er a bit of guard sometimes for our midfield . |
| 5 | He put it away , a bit of hesitation there in the Oxford United defence , and it 's a goal to Spurs scored by Gary Mafford , in fact he 's put the ball in the net ; mistake from Andy Melville gave Spurs a corner , the ball was n't cleared , Gascoigne played a one two , was blocked by United , it came out to Mafford in the end and the goal 's in so Spurs take the lead after eight minutes . |
| 6 | Steep routes , close to the road , sunshine , pleasant surroundings and generally good quality rock ; plus there 's a bit of adventure away from the crowds for those prepared to look for it . |
| 7 | bit of Araldite just on the end of the thread is |
| 8 | JB : There 's a bit of painting there on the wall that I rather like — well in fact I do like it , it took 20 minutes . |
| 9 | I sometimes like to think it was my eloquence , but the fact of the matter is that if I had got up on my hind legs and suggested a bit of Karaoke instead of the morning service , they would have leaped at it . |
| 10 | Half a tick — I 've got a bit of bumph somewhere with the drill in case of air raids . ’ |
| 11 | The only area in which it loses out to the deeper-bodied F-model is on sheer projection , and I could well imagine some players foregoing that extra bit of welly just for the comfort and convenience of the LSE 's thin body . |
| 12 | Now we have recently added two more halls to the existing building , so it 's er , quite er bit of accommodation there for different er duties . |
| 13 | well any way look , if I made you a thin bit of steel straight across the centre like that |
| 14 | The dealer got more and more paranoid sitting there , noticing these two guys in the corner who kept looking at a bit of paper then at him , then having a bit of a conflab . |
| 15 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 16 | do you remember the time though as being , you , you certainly imply that it was a , a time when there was a quite a bit of unrest perhaps at the complexity of the scheme , as much as anything else . |
| 17 | Begged a bit of dosh together by laying a hat on the floor down the underground and sucking a harmonica . |
| 18 | No I do n't think she 's ready quite yet , she 's got a few things to sort out first and that 's definitely not right , she wants to raise the daggerboard not lower it , bit of confusion there about which way to turn the tiller but she 's round safely , she should be looking where she 's going now instead of sorting out all the string . |
| 19 | So you had a bit of swamp just off the bottom of your garden |
| 20 | So erm I 've got a bit of time also in which to apply for a few things and go and see a few people erm |
| 21 | Well I I know I 'm putting you under a bit of pressure here on the basis that erm it 's lovely to be able to have a choice . |
| 22 | A good cook , evidently , though somewhat vulgarized by recent service with an American family who liked bits of pineapple all over things . |
| 23 | It runs at the same speed — 8.33 MHz — but can handle 32 bits of data instead of 16 . |
| 24 | No aquarium for Loricariids should therefore be without its bits of bogwood possibly for food and certainly to give the fish a base ; if more than one cat is stocked , several pieces may be necessary to give the Loricariids a natural home . |
| 25 | the following morning I went out no numberplate and there were bits of car all over the street but |
| 26 | and there were bits of fibreglass all over the street |
| 27 | Nails had to admit that it was true he slept in his clothes every night ; he had bits of straw all over him and probably smelled a bit . |
| 28 | They seem to have a reasonably clear meaning , and have the merit of linking diverse bits of information together in a coherent pattern , and it provides an explanation for the content of Judaism and Christianity especially , and may have some application for understanding and explaining the ritual developments in Hinduism and Buddhism , as will be illustrated in Chapter 5 . |
| 29 | It ploughed into the ground scattering debris and bits of aluminium all over the place . |