Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [art] bit " in BNC.

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1 Can you scroll that down a bit ?
2 I 'll turn that down a bit .
3 I 've got ta get that down a bit .
4 Turn that down a bit Kelly Ann
5 Turn that down a bit
6 And you know they have a very distinctive characteristic do n't they , they have round faces and they 're short and they have slightly slanting eyes , etcetera etcetera , well these children have very marked physical erm appearance they 're fair haired and blue eyed the reason for that is that this substance venial alanine is responsible for the production of pigment , so if that 's interfered with they 're going to be fair haired and blue eyed , they get eczema a lot , they have small heads and they have very widely spaced teeth , sorry down a bit , is that what you want ?
7 I slumped to my knees , burdened by the hopeless regret that I had n't had the chance to do this just a bit sooner .
8 Turn this up a bit cos my missus
9 Surely we should toughen this up a bit and say , I mean I 'm probably getting
10 I 'm also gon na open this up a bit .
11 So they say , oh okay we 've sorted this out a bit now each group just has five pound to share out between fifteen of them .
12 or we might have to bring this back a bit
13 And try and squeeze a few back a bit further .
14 But you look at the diagram they 've given you which is not exactly the scale and they do this quite a bit .
15 Tod 's been doing this quite a bit lately — grunting : Shtib .
16 but , but we , we , we might come across this again a bit later on th that i it 's entirely possible that what is being said at the early part is n't actually borne out by the details that come later on .
17 Now I 'll pull this forward a bit erm Ian
18 ‘ Was that not a bit risky ? ’
19 The number of firms supplying the industry , er , we 'll go through these in a bit more detail in a moment , I 'll just put them down .
20 So get it smooth , coat it with copper , polish that up a bit so it 's really nice and shiny and put a fine coating of silver over it
21 Move that up a bit so a little better .
22 Just shutting that up a bit .
23 That 's what it 's all about , I 'd like perhaps to see whether we can tie that up a bit .
24 Do you wan na chop , mu mush that up a bit ?
25 No , no , no , wait a minute , wait a minute , let me think , this was somewhere , do n't forget they come from all over the bloody country the South of England Show erm , this scrumpy was all somewhere a bit farther north , Cotswolds or
26 So what about the retro space-cadet '70s image — hipsters and plastic zap guns , is n't it all just a bit comic-strip ?
27 ‘ You are all up a bit before your time .
28 So we 'd better , we 'd better sort that out a bit .
29 Can you pat those back a bit .
30 Oh would and could you 're going to use those quite a bit in writing
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