Example sentences of "[vb past] up a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | I caught up a bit during the '60s when I became the oldest teenager in town — in fact I was in my early thirties . |
| 2 | So it looks like Y equals X squared , moved up a bit , more or less , as a good approximation . |
| 3 | It 's about time we loosened up a bit anyway . |
| 4 | She got a couple of drinks down her and loosened up a bit . |
| 5 | ‘ The lil ol boy turned up a bit quick : he come jus in time to hev a slice of his mother 's wedding cake . ’ |
| 6 | and he got it turned up a bit and sounds bloody from the other room |
| 7 | Mark said that when the Raja saw the damage he was wearing glasses ‘ which steamed up a bit . ’ |
| 8 | We all cheered up a bit after that . |
| 9 | They perked up a bit when they finally reached the car park before the North Ameshet Holiday Inn though . |
| 10 | Then the game slowed up a bit . |
| 11 | At the same time , at Edendale in Gore , Bruce Mackenzie , with the help of old Jan , bought a couple of good horses for his sons Sandy and Stu — ‘ for when they grew up a bit ’ . |
| 12 | There were dances in the Hut by the Strathmore Arms and when we grew up a bit and thought our fathers would n't find out we would nip into the Strathmore Arms for a pint , on the few occasions we could afford . |
| 13 | After that , things looked up a bit . |
| 14 | And then it eased up a bit at dinner time and then it started again about two o'clock . |
| 15 | ‘ The point is to get things cleared up a bit . |
| 16 | Slipped up a bit there , did n't I ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ In the Pheasant-Eye cord they copied the colours of the pheasant 's eye : it was a brownish cord patterned with ‘ eyes ’ that stood up a bit redder . |
| 18 | Mr Reed ‘ picked up a bit of consulting work ’ following his resignation and heard no more until his arrest five months later . |
| 19 | Then I picked up a bit of naan bread and mopped up my curry sauce . |
| 20 | ‘ I managed to win a few line-out takes and the backrow picked up a bit of their possession which pleased us as a unit . |
| 21 | erm er and the spelling of it , you , you asked , I think , about the , about the Bridgit side of it and so on and , and questioned that and then again later on picked up a bit about the er tt about the spelling of the children 's names so you , you went along with him on , on that . |
| 22 | Somehow I sat up a bit . |
| 23 | Sladen looked at George , who reluctantly sat up a bit straighter , and said : ‘ Until your chap did talk , I imagine Major Maxim thought he was being followed by a bunch of Kremlin cowboys . ’ |