Example sentences of "bit of [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were n't no good saying you would n't do it , you had to do it and you had to go whether that was raining or not , yeah cos people relied on you taking round little bit of meat for their dinner that day , yeah . |
| 2 | Payment for the first lorry hi-jacking , Wexford thought , a nice little bit of compensation for his concussion . |
| 3 | Let's go and just have a drink , Ted 'll look after the kids , your Lucy can sleep in Frieda 's bed , be a bit of company for her . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Nice of them , ’ said a visiting English biker , ‘ to organise a bit of music for us on our way back . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Bit of luck for them what happened to him . ’ |
| 6 | That was a bit of luck for you , was n't it ? said Dorothy . |
| 7 | And there 's a bit of fun for you . |
| 8 | The affair took on quite a different aspect when Mrs Kelleher saw that it was only Miss Nicandra having a bit of fun for herself nothing but smiles now and urgent invitations to a cup of tea . |
| 9 | I think she 's a bit upset , I think she thinks I 'm better , I 'm better than her because I beat her in that , and I think she 's , a bit of shock for her . |
| 10 | But if it lasts it will be a nice little bit of pocket-money for her . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But I genuinely feel that my feelings towards the FA have stopped a bit of progress for my son . |
| 12 | So he experienced society from the bottom up , before talent and determination made room at the top for him : ‘ That was a most valuable bit of education for which I shall always be grateful both to my bourgeois ancestry as well as to the regime , ’ he was to say later . |
| 13 | At any rate , Joe would be pleased ; he always relished a bit of publicity for his authors . |
| 14 | We do n't say you ca n't take photographs because we actually like them to take photographs , we do reckon it 's a little bit of publicity for us . |
| 15 | Well , give me a bit of space for it |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps you 'd like to ride a bit of work for me . ’ |
| 17 | and I 'm hoping that the local authority will start coming across with a bit of work for me . |
| 18 | 2 , it 's a very normal and routine bit of work for you . |
| 19 | He 'd feel a little bit of pity for his mother and the labrador he 'd owned at eight , awe at the dead pop stars and disgust at the lack of fashion and the bad music played for the occasion . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm only trying to work things out for myself and take a bit of responsibility for what I do . ’ |
| 21 | Bit of roughage for him . ’ |
| 22 | That 's er a little bit of fun in that , but er we might have a little bit of advice for you if you are preparing to receive guests you 'd rather not see over Christmas . |
| 23 | Because you start talking too many other businesses , and this is a bit of advice for you |
| 24 | erm , he 's seeing to a bit of rust for me |
| 25 | He 's struggling along at present with fifty or so sheep , growing a bit of food for himself along with his winter feed for the beasts . |
| 26 | ‘ Bit of news for you , Willoughby . ’ |
| 27 | " I 've got a bit of news for you , " he said . |
| 28 | He said I 've got a bit of news for you |
| 29 | I think part of the thing about stress is n't so much whether it 's a chemical effect , but it 's a having a cigarette is a way of creating a wee break if you 're if you 're busy and as a , that can be really difficult for women to do , actually demand a bit of time for themselves . |
| 30 | There 's a little bit of alliteration for you . |