Example sentences of "[adv] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought I might go upstream a bit and wash off some of this dirt , ’ she said evenly , fingering her hair distastefully . |
| 2 | It 's amazing how much a bit of good food and healthy exercise can sharpen the mind . |
| 3 | However , at one stage , one of Tony 's roadies — apparently a bit of an electronics whizzkid — wired the guitar to send the signal from one of the sockets to a transformer and into a mixer , while the other went straight to the amp . |
| 4 | 0–2 ticks You are naturally a bit anxious about life — look again at the particular areas you ticked . |
| 5 | Such activity is naturally a bit messy , and those left-over bits of bedding that litter the area around the sett , within the spoil heaps and down the tunnels , are a dead give-away . |
| 6 | I was never the focus of an actual focused ill-wishing , merely a bit part player in Bernard 's drama , but look what happened to me ! |
| 7 | Besides , she told herself firmly , this time the sea was merely a bit choppy . |
| 8 | erm I saw in the newspaper , as I am sure you probably did , last week that the government has just devoted , I think , nine million pounds over the next few years to develop curricula and methods of training teachers in schools , and I think it 's tremendously important that that does n't become merely a bit more science of one form or another . |
| 9 | It might calm you down a bit . ’ |
| 10 | She might have quietened down a bit by now , but you know what she 's like . ’ |
| 11 | Anyway , when things had calmed down a bit , Kathleen made a quiet suggestion . |
| 12 | ‘ I was going as carefully as I could because I had a 25-second cushion over Berger so I was able to slow down a bit and the pain eased . |
| 13 | His trousers usually fell down a bit and he was observed to be always hitching them up by peculiar digs with his elbows . |
| 14 | ( I realised I had to cancel them , otherwise I 'd get the balance down a bit , then get clothes fever again . ) |
| 15 | ‘ For Top of the Pops , I make an effort to look glammed up but not too much — the knackered shorts tone the outfit down a bit ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I was only six , so the art direction let it down a bit , really . |
| 17 | That slowed things down a bit and on the second day England made some progress through the wickets . |
| 18 | ‘ You do n't win any medals by questioning the Chairman 's judgement , Mark ’ said his personal assistant , advising him to ‘ tone it down a bit ’ in future Dublin plant reports . |
| 19 | ‘ Let me down a bit more ! ’ |
| 20 | Watered it down a bit , mind . |
| 21 | I just thinned it down a bit with this and that . ’ |
| 22 | He stamped up and down a bit , waiting for Miss Harker to return . |
| 23 | I put down a bit less than I had been drinking . |
| 24 | Let it cool down a bit . |
| 25 | I want to calm down a bit . ’ |
| 26 | Rather apprehensively I let the other girls use it , on the strict understanding that when they had finished with it they unplugged it and stowed it away somewhere out of sight of our two gauleiters , hopefully after it had cooled down a bit . |
| 27 | ‘ Down a bit . |
| 28 | Turn the gain down a bit and the reverb up and this translates into old Roy Buchanan — anyone remember Sweet Dreams ? |
| 29 | What do people mean when they say , ‘ Water it down a bit ’ ? |
| 30 | The boys were back in town to finish off their latest album of dinkety-bonk and decided to let their hair down a bit after a little light refreshment in the bar . |