Example sentences of "[pron] a [adj] bit " in BNC.

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1 Can I a little bit of orange ?
2 So am I a little bit .
3 ‘ Maybe the party will be able to get some money out of it and we will be able to prostitute ourselves a little bit more .
4 We 've amused ourselves a little bit by putting William 's initials on there and the arms of his wife who was called Joan .
5 We blitzed ourselves a little bit I think you know , back pass we talked about , no back passes , ball gambles and everything , in he goes , two free headers basically .
6 The main entry road was well sealed off with road blocks and white-helmeted military cops behind which a little bit of American Mid-West flourished .
7 The whole idea behind the I D S sounds perhaps at first as if its a little bit like an old missionary organization which has been set up to help the natives .
8 He 's a deep forward square leg and there 's Lawrence about thirty yards away from him a little finer , here 's Tufnell the he cuts it away on the off side , that 's a fine and wide give himself a little bit of room ease that away through extra cover , steward in front of the grandstand , four more , which is the way he plays , sixteen not out .
9 It 's nice a wee taste of haggis now and again , not that you 'd want to eat it too often , it does tend to come back on you a wee bit , does n't it ?
10 Well , we 'll give you a wee bit of that nice medicine , or , nasty medicine .
11 and then gradually they would give you a wee bit say maybe the legs or something to do a er polish you know show you how to start you know , how to rubber and how to fold your the cotton wool .
12 ‘ I understand you 've got a legal problem which means we ca n't go too deeply into that , but from the outside is it hurting you a little bit ? ’
13 At the start of the path , by the farmhouse at Aberarder , you will see a few explanatory posts telling you a little bit about the reserve and the mountains within its boundaries .
14 Well I think I 'll start off by telling you a little bit about myself erm , I 'm a writer and I live in Durham , my work is here and I 've also work abroad , if anybody ca n't hear me please say
15 Now I wanted to tell you a little bit too before we leave about one of the ARC publications that may be of interest to those of you who are self-propelled .
16 Right , here 's one where they give you a little bit of the table This this is a That 's a fairly complicated sort of thing that they give on the table , erm give you the valencies and the
17 Erm there is to give you a little bit of an idea of hoe those rules would apply and who comes into it A well known family tree for you just to look at .
18 This book , these books are quite good because they do give you a little bit of explanation .
19 we could actually make you a bit bit A lot better than this , and I think the time has come to adjust how we 're treating you a little bit .
20 Oh I could tell you a lot about this but I 'll I 'll just tell you a little bit that 's all .
21 Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time .
22 Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time .
23 I think it 's more when we actually see people doing it , but it 's all , it 's a nice idea to give you a little bit of basic just to think about , and again we wo n't be expecting this to be demonstrated to the on this afternoon 's role page , you done all your preparations for that have n't you .
24 So that 's not good news Erm , if I can show the way of overcoming that problem , how , would you be interested , and you say , that problem 's always been difficult for me , you know what can I say then , ca n't say , you ready to train yourself to think , you know , physically you a little bit of actually , putting yourself in their world .
25 Let me tell you a little bit about the history .
26 ‘ Let me tell you a little bit about Domino , ’ he cut in deeply .
27 I was expecting you a little bit earlier actually , I think perhaps you got the times wrong I was
28 I give you a little bit of warning .
29 what what the insurance salesman do is do wobble you a little bit so that you will take it out , you know , can you afford down , if you were forty having a heart attack leaving a wife and young child behind .
30 Erm on the first bit of the handout I 've stuck a couple of definitions of child sex abuse on , just to um give you a little bit of context an and er give you some idea of the sorts of things that people have the sorts of ways in which people are defining this phenomenon nowadays .
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