Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I actually felt they hustled better than us though we managed to catch them on the break quite a bit , ’ said Blaney . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The weighting just a bit too erm |
| 8 | But no doubt you had a nice tete-a-tete lunch somewhere a bit more upmarket , eh ? |
| 9 | And that yo can keep the dog and cat upstairs a bit ca n't we ? |
| 10 | And it started on my back quite a bit , three of four days ago , well it 's not just as bad but my arms are real bad . |
| 11 | One is as people get older , like when they get up to about fourteen or fifteen , they start um feeling perhaps a bit more self-confident , a bit more able to do something about it . |
| 12 | Uncoached I was at least able to survive a couple of rounds in the local tournaments ; a stroke of luck at this stage was that I was paired with a newcomer to the Command — a FIt Lt Reep who was in a different league to mine — and we entered for competitions and this raised my game quite a bit . |
| 13 | You can swing your leg round , move it outwards it 's a simple ball and socket joint and it 's used in engineering quite a bit is n't it ? |
| 14 | Also the project that has hit the news quite a bit recently is the talking newspaper for the blind . |
| 15 | Do you want to bring your chair forward a bit ? |
| 16 | Well you 'll have to move the chair forward a bit . |
| 17 | Across the road here a bit further up is erm the old people 's home is n't it ? |
| 18 | I appreciate that we cyclists must have caused the operation quite a bit of inconvenience , particularly the stops to get us on and off ; the problems of finding suitable lay-bys etc ; the time taken ; and the dirty work for the drivers . |
| 19 | You ought to see them up it 's sort of like a leg here , half a leg there a bit of chatting up . |
| 20 | What ha what about if all the pen , what if I put some extra tin foil just a bit at the end . |
| 21 | And then when Suzanne was she had a lot of trouble carrying her about and she had to be in hospital quite a bit |
| 22 | So , through no fault of my own , I was at a loose end quite a bit . |
| 23 | they 've gone down in the world again a bit . |
| 24 | You 've got a golf course , you 've got quite a few things round here , you 've even , you 've got your school just a bit , you know up past . |
| 25 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 26 | He tells me endless stories about Alice , and talks about his school quite a bit too . |
| 27 | I like to use an Ibanez Tube Screamer quite a bit ; I have other pedals like EQ , delay and compressor , but I hardly use them . ’ |
| 28 | this and one other Kodak battery good God you 've got to take two of them , oh sod that ooh very nice , these cost quite a bit actually , it 's three packets , ooh |
| 29 | A fair crowd had gathered on the Wigmore Street-Portman Square corner and at first you could have mistaken it for a queue outside a sandwich shop , or even the Post Office just a bit further down the street . |
| 30 | And , you know , we all lost a good friend ; I 'd had such a great time over those last two days working with him and with Eric , and I think about that time quite a bit . |