Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | The controls are slow and unresponsive — let's face it , with the amount of platform beat-'em-ups around you 'd have thought the programmers would 've given a bit more care and attention to this aspect , not to mention the graphics , presentation … the game in general really . |
| 2 | It is a good idea of Lewis Carroll to think of the March hare because in March hares tend to go a bit potty and they stand on their back legs and box each other . |
| 3 | cos if you concentrate on the kerb you tend to drive a bit too close to it |
| 4 | Indeed , the idea dated way back to Sydney Newman 's original brief about the series , as handed to Donald Wilson , where he expressed a wish to see a show done with an everyday garden made to appear every bit as hostile as an alien planet . |
| 5 | I think that in due time the British people will want to know a bit more than that . |
| 6 | They tend to attract a bit of attention if you 're an exhibitionist . |
| 7 | I should think two years , you know , when the restrictions got lifted a bit , so it got better , yeah . |
| 8 | ‘ I expect they want to see a bit of night life , ’ said Sister Dew . |
| 9 | ‘ What I meant was do you wish to pull in somewhere till this has eased a bit ? ’ |
| 10 | But I think you do need to plan a bit , you know in spite of the fact you 've got the degree to do , if , if you can spend time going to see these people . |
| 11 | She needs to lose a bit of weight but I 'm worried because she 's become very faddy about her food and sometimes refuses to eat anything at all . |
| 12 | He 'd be jolly with the guards , telling them , ‘ It 's OK thanks , I just want to lose a bit of weight , ’ and hold his belly , saying , ‘ Look at all this fat . ’ |
| 13 | Then you remember it and it starts to come a bit true does n't it ? |
| 14 | America has attacked the bit of the Bank expressly designed to promote private enterprise in the developing countries . |
| 15 | Also , with healthy deciduous trees , the leaves all come with great show every Spring and die off in the Autumn — but more come each successive year cos the tree has grown a bit so the foliage is thicker , more complex in structure — until it dies of course . |
| 16 | But he 's worked hard to adapt to the pace of things in England and because of that , his skill has suffered a bit . |
| 17 | But after seeing Celtic sensationally overturn a two-goal deficit against Cologne and Stuttgart land in the dock for fielding too many foreigners against Leeds , Francis said : ‘ Their League has suffered a bit from an exodus of top stars to Italy . |
| 18 | The movie business has turned a bit more reticent about the art world since Glimcher 's folly . |
| 19 | Standing sex has had a bit of a bad press — mainly because it tends to be used for illicit love-making by young couples who have no bedroom to go to . |
| 20 | I look in the same direction to account for the charming note ‘ Granovsky has got a bit out of hand ’ . |
| 21 | Maybe we are like a photocopy of God that got a bit crumpled and smudged as it came out of the machine so that his image in us has got a bit spoilt , but that does not alter the fact that every person has something of God about them . |
| 22 | With that we 'll see if we 've got any more it 's er , have to go down here which has got a bit of light , still some birds moving around and the birds calling , go and check the nests now . |
| 23 | So that 's the background of why I 'm giving this as long retired er tax inspector the mean , my own department has got a bit mean . |
| 24 | But I think trick or treat itself , maybe has got a bit perhaps distorted from what one might imagine the American idea originally was . |
| 25 | No but he has got a bit of an accent . |
| 26 | he has got a bit of a belly on him actually |
| 27 | Mm , and they 're always going to say yes are n't they , unless they 're a reasonable human being and has got a bit of money they can use . |
| 28 | That 's what you want , a decent endowment , it takes out all the fluctuations , and er the they 've big reserves , and of course the minute the endowment starts to look a bit poorer , it 's switch back to P E Ps , course I 've always said that P E Ps were a good idea , and the charges are much better now than they were , and I 'm just thinking of the poor chap that 's read the paper two years ago , over his tea and toast on a Sunday and thought mhm good idea , I 'll take an endowment , and two years later it 's the same person saying aha , no , pretty bad news an endowment . |
| 29 | He borrowed a new T-shirt from Jazz and tried to look a bit cleaner after his night in the graveyard potting shed , determined to keep out of trouble till after the competition . |
| 30 | I want to play a bit with dad |