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 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 10 | We went down a hundred feet , perhaps a bit more . |
| 11 | As to Mr. Cox himself , we obtained very little information that we did not already have , although perhaps a bit more detailed . |
| 12 | Along the inland part of the fissure ordinary Hawaiian-type eruptions will take place , with lava being emitted quietly , and perhaps a bit of fire-fountaining . |
| 13 | He was of about my own age , perhaps a bit older , pleasant looking and cheerful . |
| 14 | About a kilogram , perhaps a bit more . |
| 15 | Of course , ten p.m. on a winter 's night , when one was a lady of leisure expected to be indoors enjoying a meal which someone else had cooked , was perhaps a bit much . |
| 16 | It was perhaps a bit thicker than she would have liked , but the weight was about right . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't really know much about Doctor Reid , ’ I admitted , ‘ except that he seems to have a great sense of humour and is — well , perhaps a bit unconventional . ’ |
| 18 | It seems to me that quite a few of our senior British players have had to put up with more than their fair share of criticism in recent years , when perhaps a bit of encouragement might have been more appropriate . |
| 19 | Erm now obviously in the context of constitutional governments it 's not , one can imagine having a constitutional form of government without , without a parliamentary system but erm it 's perhaps a bit of a stretch of the imagination . |
| 20 | Well , it 's perhaps a bit structurally ramshackle and thematically clichéed to merit such an accolade , and its good- versus-evil scenario draws extensively on the stock-in-trade of nineteenth-century battle music . |
| 21 | 's But the majority of adult Women compositors remained earning 16s-18s , perhaps a bit more if they were lucky . |
| 22 | Or are they perhaps a bit of both : a species of " braided " psycho-physical events with the two components inseparably interlinked with one another ? |
| 23 | I I think if we get one of them we 'll be doing very well , and to get two would be perhaps a bit naughty . |
| 24 | Perhaps a bit too plausible . ’ |
| 25 | Ti amo : it sounds perhaps a bit too much like an aperitif , but is full of structural conviction with subject and verb , the doer and the deed , enclosed in the same word . |
| 26 | She was always perhaps a bit too trusting . |
| 27 | And you find more or more or less forceful ways of of giving directives , and one way of making some things perhaps a bit less forceful is to put a tag question on cos it 's sort of adding a sort of pleading note on to it , to ask somebody to do it , I think . |
| 28 | That 's right , it 's erm its empirically verified that in developing countries er the civil service or the , the government sector is very very large relative to the , to the economy , now whereas say U K or somewhere like France the government public and semi public er organizations employ ten percent of the , the workforce , perhaps a bit , bit more in France than the U K erm in developing countries the government sector can be , you know , over half of the total urban , urban employment , in some cases it 's seventy and eighty percent of er employment . |
| 29 | Maybe O Leary 's been getting the coaching right in that department , or maybe a bit of luck away has steadied their nerve , perhaps a bit of both . |
| 30 | Perhaps a bit more than that , the old nineteen thirty three class differentiation documents are reissued and they are reissued together with the supplements which we saw came out in the autumn of nineteen thirty three which and , and those supplements where then extended to allow the middle peasant to er up to twenty five , on some of the readings up to thirty percent , of his income from exploitation . |