Example sentences of "[pers pn] up a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I never had to promise , so that 's why I thought it might cheer you up a bit . |
| 2 | The exercise will heat you up a bit . |
| 3 | Now sorry Alan I 've got to turn you up a bit you do n't mind do you ? |
| 4 | The doctors , you know , they 've got to patch you up a bit . ’ |
| 5 | He said you were born old , and that you needed to have a wife to soften you up a bit . ’ |
| 6 | And buck you up a bit . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That 's shaken them up a bit , I expect . ’ |
| 9 | He would watch their puzzled , attentive faces while Nonni talked about clothes and the latest film she had seen , ‘ jollying them up a bit ’ , as she called it : she thought that because their lives had been man-less , they were therefore dull and sad . |
| 10 | Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form . |
| 11 | Well I think you can look at it on two levels and one , one reason is to change the Party structure shake them up a bit , cos there 's , there 's evidence that they were erm you know moving to the right and allying with er rich peasants and landlords , and the other , on the level is actually having a policy which would get mass support and this obviously would require incentives in the form of land to peasants . |
| 12 | Well normally when he gives marrow bones I ask him to chop them up a bit smaller |
| 13 | No that 's part of the the windows washing but I 'll quickly washed over them just to spruce them up a bit but I thought if I put Mrs in that , is she driving , or is she not ? |
| 14 | I think it 's the stomach that 's fatter pulls them up a bit . |
| 15 | That cheered me up a bit . |
| 16 | ‘ Shook me up a bit , that yesterday , ’ he said unexpectedly . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's what I mean , ’ she replied , and , since a lot of his aggressiveness seemed to have faded , she felt able to confess , ‘ It — er — shook me up a bit . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , I 'll have a look at her while I 'm here , cheer her up a bit . ’ |
| 19 | He could maybe wind her up a bit if he had the chance . |
| 20 | ‘ You could nip across and introduce yourself — chat her up a bit and try and mention the possibility of anonymous letters . |
| 21 | Just something for to pep her up a bit . |
| 22 | You know , hold her hand and cheer her up a bit . |
| 23 | So you perked her up a bit |
| 24 | Butter him up a bit . |
| 25 | Elsworth says : ‘ A new place gees him up a bit . |
| 26 | I used to drop in to have a word with the old man — cheer him up a bit . |
| 27 | It might be just what he needs to wake him up a bit . |
| 28 | It escapes me why he has n't had a spell in the reserves to shake him up a bit . |
| 29 | The last lay off ( remember after being selected for England ) shook him up a bit and he took time to get his confidence back , but again towards the end of the season was getting back to his best . |
| 30 | Have to cheer him up a bit ! |