Example sentences of "bit of [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we started to go there at first there were a fella , a fella from Keighley who was a weaver and he bought a bit of land at the side of the er , the side of the chapel , or was it the school ? |
| 2 | A chance for a last flourish and a bit of fun at the end of a gruelling league campaign . |
| 3 | She tried to find a moment to squeeze in a bit of rest at the sauna , something she could not do during the week ; in the late afternoon , she would always find herself with a vacuum cleaner and duster , because the cleaning woman who came on Fridays was becoming more and more careless . |
| 4 | His haircut , with that floppy bit of hair at the front he always has . |
| 5 | I need a little bit of wedge at the back there just to stop |
| 6 | Yeah just a just a wooden bit of wood at the front and a a wooden bottom and then they had erm bed what did they call bed-sacks they call them |
| 7 | He 's won awards for his skill , now he 's putting that to the test and hopefully earn a bit of cash at the same time . |
| 8 | I 've got to drop the keys and this bit of paper at the same time . ’ |
| 9 | This removes some of the flexibility ( you need a mains socket ) , the portability ( the LAN adaptor itself may fit into your pocket , but you would n't want to carry a mains adaptor too ) , and the tidiness ( the power lead means yet another bit of wire at the back of your PC ) . |
| 10 | ‘ There 's a good bit of banter at the post office on pension days . |
| 11 | That caused a bit of talk at the time . ’ |
| 12 | Now the other reason why of course you wo n't perhaps erm drive naturally is because of this little bit of tension at the fact that who 's this person sitting here looking at what I 'm doing ? and it it 's putting me off . |
| 13 | Dury 's reputation as something of a hellraiser has been sustained by a couple of recent incidents : what he describes as his ‘ bit of bother at the opera ’ ( a minor fracas enthusiastically reported by the tabloid newspapers ) and an appearance on Nicky Campbell 's Radio 1 show , when Dury , who had dined well before going on air , spoke with unusual frankness on a number of subjects . |
| 14 | I think it 'd be better it 's just than I 'm under a wee bit of pressure at the moment to be in thirty five different locations |
| 15 | THE CHIPPENDALES flexed a bit of muscle at the opening of the Formby Cancer Research Campaign charity shop . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I have a bit of trouble at the moment , and if … well , if anything should happen to me , I think Cabochon should know . ’ |
| 17 | After a birdie at the first , we ran into a bit of trouble at the 6th , a hole Lee had criticized because he felt you should n't have to ‘ lay up ’ on any par-4in an Open . |
| 18 | Philip looked at him now holding Caspar with one hand and throwing bits of stick at the dead magpie to knock it off the branch . |
| 19 | Masklin found the Thing among the heap of paperclips , dust , and screwed-up bits of paper at the bottom of the bag . |