Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Come on , you 've got lots , masses , you can spare me a bit . |
| 2 | It did n't look er odd it looked okay so that would make me a bit more confident I think a bit less self conscious . |
| 3 | Having said this , I 'm sure some folk would prefer them a bit tighter round the seat and hips . |
| 4 | They should n't be like that , we should , like , be able to pull cords and curtains as well gathering them a bit . |
| 5 | ‘ You would n't mind organizing them a bit , would you ? |
| 6 | But it was your idea of erm entrances that got me a bit scared . |
| 7 | So this is , what got me a bit suspicious right , well I speaking to her and all and I said , well you know , this is it and , you know she said she knows George is , is meant to be coming up and I said look and I says and I 'm gon na go down onto the floor here , and just as I was to go onto the floor there was a phone call right , and it was Alice . |
| 8 | But apparently they know that I 'm really forward which is absolute , actually not very true cos Ed said that I was quite forward and he , I was only forward with him because the person I got off with just before him was bloody forward and it made me a bit forward but I calmed down after that , you know ? |
| 9 | Answering back I thought he could have given me a bit more time cos I wanted to say something else and he was |
| 10 | But I looked at it and I thought well I 'm being silly here because , it 's not keeping that for me , , you see he 's given me a bit of and |
| 11 | Double positives are taken away making it negative and your H positives go in here , making it positive , so you get a you get a little a little potential difference , a little difference in voltage , which gives a Any any two metals if you put them together and make them a bit damp , or even if you do n't make them damp , you usually get a little a tiny voltage . |
| 12 | Right , depends what the and quite honestly , if you bring these down and make them a bit more romantic |
| 13 | You know you know some people they lose them a bit young do n't they . |
| 14 | Probably if ‘ Damnation Derek ’ had bothered to talk to people and get to know them a bit before preaching at them , he would have discovered that they would want to ask him some questions about what he believed . |
| 15 | My wide feet found them a bit tight , but I swapped the footbeds for the Sanmarco ones , which are much thinner , and both pairs then fitted me better — a leaf taken from Merrell 's book . |
| 16 | That worries me a bit , and yet having |
| 17 | ‘ Aye , got better than that , William Davies , ’ Hari said , ‘ come on , I might be able to find you a bit of soup as well as some bread . ‘ |
| 18 | They use it to help prepare themselves for the interview — i.e. to get to know you a bit before you arrive and work out the questions they are going to ask you . |
| 19 | Or unless you want her a bit what ti , Joanne Joanne comes in at quarter past six does she ? |
| 20 | That , I believe , was because we moved him a bit upmarket in his packaging , and gave him more thriller-style covers . |
| 21 | When he got to know her a bit better , he was further excited by her strength of will , her independence , her commitment to the Irish nationalist cause , and — best of all , he reckoned — her utterly straight-faced enthusiasm for his explorations of the Celtic spirit-world . |
| 22 | It was more a family , really , than a deputation , excluding the Bishop , of course : Aethelric of Durham , whom the monks had wanted to disown after that business eight years ago , until he had had to go to Siward and slip him a bit of St Cuthbert 's best to get him reinstated . |
| 23 | She must persuade him of her good intentions — for it had never crossed her mind that she would not repay him — but she must also try to convince him of the seriousness of her situation and persuade him to grant her a bit of leeway . |
| 24 | Well I think we 're lucky they must be keeping it a bit longer for interest of something to all out . |
| 25 | ‘ I do and I 'm not stopping you working , just delaying it a bit . ’ |
| 26 | have a read of things and then on the basis of what your informants tell you then you can sort of focus it a bit more on erm tt you know the stuff that er erm you know the stuff that comes out in the literature that 's particularly |
| 27 | I found it a bit disturbing sometimes but I just had to accept it . |
| 28 | Contains lots of currants , but testers found it a bit dry . |
| 29 | I found it a bit stilted , but Ted thought it warm . |
| 30 | I found it a bit too hypnotic for comfort . |