Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] a little bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has done a little bit of manipulation here and there but overall it will not boost the economy . |
| 2 | DENNIS SKINNER , the Bolsover MP who has terrorised generations of ministers from his place below the gangway , has made a little bit of history this week . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's fine in the Ryder Cup , although that has got a little bit out of hand when nerves are stretched like the note of a piano . |
| 4 | You can feel the brake and then you pick up the feel of the tyre and it starts moving a little bit . |
| 5 | Hugh Hefner has devoted a little bit of Playboy to his new bride , Kimberley . |
| 6 | That 's basically for editing purposes , so that , if the editor , he likes the general tenor of what you 've said but he perhaps wants to , he wants to chop a little bit out or he wants to put that sentence up there , he 's got somewhere that he can actually , he can actually do his editing . |
| 7 | Okay this is where it starts to get a little bit complicated . |
| 8 | Erm where it has lost a little bit of the quality of the lighting is round the base . |
| 9 | The first one was community and I know , erm that Catherine was n't very happy about the community side of things and I 've looked at the the pamphlet things and it needs updating a little bit so I took the fact that the Royal Quay 's were down at our doorstep and contacted Linda who was extremely helpful and she 's put together erm , a package of things along with me , I went down last week and the first week the ninth is going to be explaining to the classes what we 're going to be doing , each form teacher will be able to do that and the sixteen and the twenty third there are visits down to the Royal Quay 's Education Centre erm for which |
| 10 | You see , especially here , that sort of erm white metal bit , the er brushed chrome sort of finish on that tends to get a little bit lost in this white background . |
| 11 | The third one up here , the small one , is a little bit sort of lost because it 's against er , this sort of cavity light here so that one tends to get a little bit lost . |
| 12 | It does lack a little bit of sharpness this one . |
| 13 | I think a bit more contrast added to it would help it does lack a little bit of contrast . |
| 14 | Erm yeah I , I , it 's the idea 's there but I think it does lack a little bit of impact . |
| 15 | What you describe does sound a little bit like a chicken and egg situation from the point of view that I think you were saying that erm many teachers are ill-equipped , actually , to teach erm physics , perhaps , and chemistry , whereas they are a little bit better able to get across fundamental ideas in biology , and in a sense because of this they are going to produce another generation who perhaps have very ill-founded ideas of these basic sciences and so on and so forth , and somehow one 's got to cut into this cycle and actually improve it , improve the output somehow . |
| 16 | What you describe does sound a little bit like a chicken and egg situation from the point of view that I think you were saying that erm many teachers are ill-equipped , actually , to teach erm physics , perhaps , and chemistry , whereas they are a little bit better able to get across fundamental ideas in biology , and in a sense because of this they are going to produce another generation who perhaps have very ill-founded ideas of these basic sciences and so on and so forth , and somehow one 's got to cut into this cycle and actually improve it , improve the output somehow . |
| 17 | Yeah , he does play a little bit . |
| 18 | The powder 's just gone it 's dissolved a little bit but it 's not really doing much on its own . |
| 19 | She could n't leave them any money because all she had was an annuity that would come to an end when she died , but Mister Johnny 's got a little bit that his parents left him and Hepzibah makes some from the poultry , so they should have just enough . |
| 20 | That title is perhaps a not quite as straight as it might be , it 's got a little bit of a kink in it . |
| 21 | Oh it 's got a little bit to go yet |
| 22 | He 's got a little bit of a split lip cos every time he either smiles a lot or bangs it slightly it just opens up . |
| 23 | Well yeah he is , he 's got a little bit anyway |
| 24 | That 's not it 's got a little bit of erm |
| 25 | on that side but it 's got a little bit of black on it , do you reckon that 's anything to do with it ? |
| 26 | Because I still think this is very much discriminating on the , people like Val for example , I know she 's got a little bit of scale two but I still think the reception is such a big responsibility |
| 27 | ‘ No , I 've still got Dad , but he does n't count for much now , poor love , he 's gone a little bit silly . ’ |