Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] a bit " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 I had to admit that the young men leaving that room all looked a bit shattered and one almost reeled out , holding his mouth with both hands .
2 I 've only got a bit of French and German so I can help you with the essay if you like .
3 ‘ He had another chance but perhaps got a bit too tight on the goalkeeper with that one . ’
4 Now if anyone asks if you feel for any sense that perhaps some of these routines have perhaps got a bit of become inappropriate in some way , perhaps because you 're teaching a different type of child , or perhaps because you 've got rather different educational aims , they 've changed for some reason , then it 's like asking someone to go back to being a novice again in some senses to change .
5 It 's only weighed a bit
6 Only read a bit of it !
7 The surface has obviously changed a bit , but keeping track of the insides is harder .
8 Would she like to spend her days with a woman who had already claimed a bit of her heart ?
9 Daddy was going to rebuild it with his own hands and had already done a bit to it when I was young .
10 She 'd already made a bit of a name for herself , only locally but you know what the Germans are about music , and the district party bosses liked romantic pieces so she became the star turn at their more respectable booze-ups .
11 ‘ They have already had a bit of excitement , while the rest of the country has had to put up with the phoney war . ’
12 I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever .
13 So , because we were in the A A he said you could have a ba , and we had to go to court , we had a summons for court , for careless driving , your dad and your dad said oh so A A said you could have barrister , or our insurers said we could have a barrister our insurers , not the one with we 're with now Norman , he was to do all the , said we could have this barrister and it was at Liverpool Crown Court and , it was n't till a , and I was alright we we just got a bit of a shock , you know , we could drive the home it was the wing and what not .
14 cut turn half way , the first cut , then turn it over with , you 've got to have all the , just got a bit of the bare blade on the bench you see
15 it 's just got a bit to cover the pipes , so it just like , sits on the wall , so that you can get a wheelchair underneath .
16 Initially she 'd just had a bit of a fever and a very dry throat .
17 Oh well David 's not like that , he 's well Mark 's just had a bit of luck he 's just .
18 She 's already taped a bit in the common room .
19 It 's just gone a bit sticky like .
20 Just cut a bit off and get it whiskers and it 's off ?
21 In winter good light is vital and they 're best kept a bit warmer than other types .
22 Just read a bit on teletext .
23 Just read a bit on teletext .
24 Our matches with local rivals like Miserden ( Slad Exiles ) , Painswick , Bisley , Birdlip and Cranham usually carried a bit of added competitiveness .
25 It has always looked a bit ramshackle , with its claustrophobic nets , which were gas-lit until the 1960s .
26 She must be ill — perhaps she 's still got a bit of fever . ’
27 The umbilical cord and the afterbirth were still inside me , so she began to yank this baby and I said " Excuse me , I 've still got a bit inside me . "
28 I 've got s do n't go yet , we 've still got a bit to get through .
29 There was a game on then … but Chesterfield had other ideas … they looked a smart outfit while United have still got a bit of catching up to do … the third goal from Norris highlighted the difference between the two teams …
30 Cos I 've still got a bit of a throat and it said for sore throats too if you want .
  Next page