Example sentences of "[vb past] a bit [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you see I moved a bit more now but and I I 've still got good hearing er apart from this ear here , this ear , I ca n't hear so well , quite so well , this side , you see so I always have to say excuse me while I , hang on while I turn off the television , you see , and then they have to wait a minute till I turn it off and then what I do is because I have this phone extension put in |
| 2 | The gramophone banged a bit more and produced Tchaikovsky . |
| 3 | Nah , the addiction to E's came a bit later . |
| 4 | No , we came a bit earlier because it was so dingy . |
| 5 | Well there seemed to be like er Grove , er Road , Road , it , it seemed a bit better off you know . |
| 6 | Portugal was the original target for our fortnight 's holiday at the beginning of September , but Lisbon seemed a bit far , so we settled on Galicia , the north-western tip of Spain , and northern Portugal . |
| 7 | yes but it seemed a bit far fetched , if they said that |
| 8 | Yeah , but he seemed a bit more like a normal fifteen , sixteen year old |
| 9 | I noticed a bit more lately , yeah |
| 10 | Victorian silver fared a bit better . |
| 11 | ‘ The maiden arrived a bit early , this year . ’ |
| 12 | Equally , not all the big Healeys were Alpine Rally competitors or howling club racers , and British as the car was , the majority of the 17,700 or so MkIIIs that completed the series also went to the US , where the sun shone a bit more often . |
| 13 | Jenna asked a bit desperately . |
| 14 | And I looked at people I passed a bit more , and all of a sudden they did seem nice and smiled back . |
| 15 | One day , an American guest became a bit too enthusiastic , aimed all over the place and ended up peppering several others , I believe . |
| 16 | They made a bit more fuss soon afterwards when Erich Honecker , the former East German leader , was whisked out of a Soviet military hospital in the east and flown to Moscow , beyond the reach of German prosecutors . |
| 17 | She had not realised that some of the horses had been ‘ jazzed up ’ and made a bit more fearful or anxious , so that the horse had extended its top lip through tension . |
| 18 | We explored , we gazed a bit more , and I discovered the pleasures of walking barefoot on marble . |
| 19 | as we got a bit nearer to the library . |
| 20 | But it all got a bit too much at one late night plenary session when Graham Thompson was challenged about his language . |
| 21 | The chemistry text books ch And the physics changed , they got a bit more what you would call mathematic mathematical . |
| 22 | So I got a bit more interested . |
| 23 | But when she was about six weeks old things got a bit more serious . |
| 24 | So , she got a bit more soft soap |
| 25 | With Phil 's hesitance we got a bit more . |
| 26 | We walked a bit nearer , careful like , and then the mist rolled away for a minute or two and there she was . |
| 27 | It stuck a bit halfway , since zippers always do , but it did n't take long to get an opening big enough for the nomes to climb down inside . |
| 28 | They talked a bit longer until some other people went to the bar and Wickham took the chance to get away . |
| 29 | We talked a bit then I gave him a lift back to his hotel . |
| 30 | We talked a bit more , about when we 'd heard the news , and so forth . |