Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | That narrows the field down a bit , if it 's correct . |
| 2 | The boys were back in town to finish off their latest album of dinkety-bonk and decided to let their hair down a bit after a little light refreshment in the bar . |
| 3 | DESPITE AMERICA LETTING THE SIDE DOWN A BIT , SAGE GROUP PROSPERS ON BACK OF NEW PRODUCTS , ACQUISITIONS |
| 4 | I du n no , on the one side down a bit so he was n't so noticeable and round the other side there 's ! |
| 5 | Then you take that and taper down a bit and then it 's gon na split again |
| 6 | If you injected cold air you 'd actually chill the furnace down a bit . |
| 7 | That brings us to quarter past ten , I suspect that there 's , tea and coffee 's out there then , and if it is , I think we 'll have the break just a bit earlier , and then we can get into it when . |
| 8 | cut his card up a bit more . |
| 9 | I phone Andy and confirm it 's still all right to visit , then I ring Eddie and get the next three days off , tell the cops — they 're based at Fettes , though the DI has gone back down to London , and no they 're still not giving me back my new portable yet — and ( after I 've cleaned the car up a bit ) head out of the city and across the grey bridge in a day of squally , buffeting rain that has the bridge 's 40-limit signs on , high-sided vehicles banned and the 205 dancing its Dunlops sideways as the gusts hit . |
| 10 | If you 'd made your mind up a bit earlier instead of farting about . |
| 11 | It only made sense to put tea back a bit . |
| 12 | Anyway then I said are they interested in this quiz night , and she says I have n't go she says she 'd ask Jan , I said well give me a ring back a bit later . |
| 13 | I actually felt they hustled better than us though we managed to catch them on the break quite a bit , ’ said Blaney . |
| 14 | IBM Corp 's quest for a new chief executive appears to be narrowing , but you pays your money and you takes your choice when it comes to drawing up a list of front-runners — US PC Week reckons that the company will go for a chairman from outside and suggests Paul Stern and Perot Systems Corp chairman Morton Meyerson as the front-runners , with an internal chief executive , putting its money on Ellen Hancock and Bernard Puckett , but the Reuter shortlist is quite different , and has Lawrence Bossidy , chairman of Allied-Signal Corp out front , saying he has visited Armonk at least three or four times , Paul Stern is in there again , and John Sculley is back in the picture , with one source quoted as saying ‘ The rumour is that Sculley is acting quite disinterested , but his travel plans include going to the East Coast quite a bit ; ’ Reuter 's other possible contender is Michael Armstrong , who left only last year . |
| 15 | In those days Leeds used to be on telly quite a bit but of course there was not the coverage of every game as now . |
| 16 | The very , the very strays are where the wire goes , if you look at the drawing there a bit er , it actually comes in and out you know , one , one of them is actually the same , it actually just comes in and loops in and goes out again and you may |
| 17 | If someone comes to ask you to move your car forward a bit so he can park his 10 ton truck which is completely blocking the road , it 'll be when you 've lost the car keys . |
| 18 | The weighting just a bit too erm |
| 19 | But no doubt you had a nice tete-a-tete lunch somewhere a bit more upmarket , eh ? |
| 20 | Yeah , I know it still needs treatment but I mean it 'll try and get the swelling down a bit . |
| 21 | I 'd better try to tidy my desk up a bit . ’ |
| 22 | Dee had just opened the two-litre engine up a bit on a dual carriageway and realized how quick the car was . |
| 23 | And that yo can keep the dog and cat upstairs a bit ca n't we ? |
| 24 | turn the sound down a bit |
| 25 | Projet de Gauche and Projet de Droite ( e1 and E2 5b respectively ) push the grade up a bit and , like the excellent Excelsior ( E25c,5c ) , both finish with tricky walls . |
| 26 | ‘ Look , Dorothy , I hired you because I thought you might shake the place up a bit , so if you are unhappy here , that 's at least partly my fault . |
| 27 | But when she had asked if they could n't warm the place up a bit with some pretty colors , Dr. Briant had said sharply that they had to avoid confusing their color appreciation tests later , and she 'd have all the color she wanted then . |
| 28 | Might freshen the place up a bit , thought Nelly , stepping out into the storm . |
| 29 | We usually have to queue up in the rain because Mr Barnes — our ‘ Supa-Tuta ’ — keeps the door locked until his arrival , to prevent vandalism ( although there are those who think that a spot of creative vandalism would smarten the place up a bit ! ) . |
| 30 | But he could n't enlighten them : he only had orders to ‘ paint the place up a bit ’ . |