Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] a bit " in BNC.

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1 Which means some changing at night , or doing a bit with the night , or other one .
2 Keen skiers are motivated to consider the transatlantic option by the notion that paying a bit more for their holiday and enduring a longer journey may cut out the uncertainty about snow conditions that hangs over European skiing .
3 yeah , that 's the bone , it takes a lot of skill that getting a bit
4 You will gather I mean it caught me unawares , and in fact it disturbed me that having a bit of a wobbly on something as simple as this did not bode well for the Devil 's Ridge , which The Munros book described as a section where ‘ some may welcome the security of a rope ’ .
5 And I said no , I simply could n't , banishing the thought that I probably could , quite easily , just by ringing James back and sounding a bit pathetic .
6 But at least he was out of his top-secret room and getting a bit of fresh air for a change .
7 Well apart from the cleaning and all that and getting a bit of profit .
8 Lester is one-dimensional ; there 's nothing else he can think about apart from riding race horses , and getting a bit of money as well also helps him , so the problem is , when you 're one-dimensional , you 're lost if you 're not doing the only thing you love and understand , and that must be a bit sad .
9 The was hot water on demand for washing and , believe it or not , a sauna bath available at a moment 's notice , run by a scientist from Estonia who was spending his holidays working at camp and doing a bit of climbing when there was no-one wanting a little birch-twig flagellation .
10 And she and her friend Betty had spent long hours together , playing tennis and squash and doing a bit of swimming .
11 It could be , or I 'm just wondering if it 's actually squirrels , because although the , the excreta contains berries erm a squirrel will eat berries , it will also eat nuts and of course they do bury their nuts and I 've actually seen squirrels in other parts of the country digging holes and starting a bit of a larder and of course there are a lot of , of erm squirrels in Croydon so I think unless you actually see the animal you can only speculate that it is something small like a vole or , or a squirrel .
12 We are prepared to take the risk in giving up our jobs and taking a bit of time out . ’
13 In his mid-forties , I guessed , and carrying a bit of weight .
14 And there I stand , bold as brass , if shaking a bit , saying , ‘ I 'm just ready . ’
15 We took off into the last of the evening sun in poor visibility and I do not recall seeing any of the aircraft that took-off in front of me rise in the evening murk , I was too busy putting the nose down and squeezing a bit more speed out of the lumbering Whitley as we cleared the boundary .
16 And you had if it was no good you wanting something and waving a bit of plastic at it .
17 That let the Christmas kitten off the hook — and , thinking back , I remember having swollen glands and feeling a bit run down after eating some very rare lamb at a lunch party we went to around the time I conceived . ’
18 It 's just that , as a nome who is probably seven years old and feeling a bit creaky , I 've got to admit I 'd find it sort of comforting to have a few of the good old signs around the place .
19 Not only has it made a very good profit , but getting a bit of the American ethos into the business has been a good thing as well .
20 A real character , but getting a bit long in the tooth .
21 While creating a bit mapped image is quick and easy it does have a number of significant disadvantages .
22 So that 'll be quite useful I reckon really as well as getting a bit of money .
23 I settled in pretty quickly , though suffering a bit from culture shock and more from the realisation that I was semi-illiterate in the Thai language : I had the ability to communicate verbally but at a child 's level and almost no ability to read .
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