Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept them on a bit too long . |
| 2 | I made him take me on a bit farther at the risk of him thinking I lacked the right sexual tactics . |
| 3 | That 's right , so we work them down a bit . |
| 4 | No , take them down a bit |
| 5 | I 'll just file them down a bit . |
| 6 | So , in other words , you can push them down a bit . |
| 7 | Grandmother used to say that if it had been possible to take their personalities and shake them together a bit it would have been better for both of them . |
| 8 | ‘ Let me down a bit more ! ’ |
| 9 | It certainly slowed me down a bit today , and Matt was behind a bush a lot as well . |
| 10 | The isolation is getting me down a bit — I have had to seek to be pretty resilient spiritually with George in , and so the extra resources are pretty deplete because of that . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , you can pay me just a bit ’ . |
| 12 | When I lost my first serve in the first set , it threw me off a bit . |
| 13 | So that put me off a bit . |
| 14 | ‘ You 'd have thought your Brian could have found you somewhere a bit more comfortable , ’ interposed Mrs Harper , seeing her opportunity of introducing Brian to his disadvantage , ‘ he must know a few folk , it 's not only money that counts . … ’ |
| 15 | It might calm you down a bit . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Not bad I s'pose , but it brought you down a bit . ’ |
| 17 | hold it quite so mu so much it 'll push you down a bit . |
| 18 | He just worked you over a bit , put you in hospital , big man ! ’ |
| 19 | But if you were playing with a drummer who liked to give it some wallop , you 'd soon be lost in terms of volume , and that would piss you off a bit . |
| 20 | was it , was it , was it because he just er turned up , was it , was it , did that throw you off a bit ? |
| 21 | I do n't like any of them and then when you 've seen them all day long it puts you off a bit do n't like none of the |
| 22 | ‘ Maybe I can tell you more a bit later . |
| 23 | But I never had to promise , so that 's why I thought it might cheer you up a bit . |
| 24 | The exercise will heat you up a bit . |
| 25 | Now sorry Alan I 've got to turn you up a bit you do n't mind do you ? |
| 26 | The doctors , you know , they 've got to patch you up a bit . ’ |
| 27 | He said you were born old , and that you needed to have a wife to soften you up a bit . ’ |
| 28 | And buck you up a bit . |
| 29 | It went some way to repairing their damaged pride after their defeat by Swindon Town at the weekend , Mickey Inotta was there ; Mickey it must have cheered you up a bit . |
| 30 | Must have set you back a bit . ’ |